The continuing need for new media

Metalabel argues that digital creators can still make valuable, experimental work by building outside platform constraints, and it highlights this week's new releases as examples. The newsletter features musician VÉRITÉ, whose project The Archive gave away digital music for free while offering USBs and merch as optional support. Other releases include Alex McLeod's looping digital landscape Flower Window and Spillover, a project on lithium mining in northern Portugal delivered on a custom USB embedded in stone.