The Creator Has a Master Planby Various Artists

A collaboration between the harpist Brandee Younger and her partner, the bassist Dezron Douglas, the record is named for a clause in contracts that enables venues and promoters across the world to cancel events because of an “act of God,” which became a euphemism for the global pandemic. Marooned together in their East Harlem apartment, and without a foreseeable chance to make income from touring, Douglas and Younger streamed a set each Friday during which they ran through a range of numbers, cracked jokes, commented on the dead-seriousness of now, and offered a strangely personal window into their coupledom against the backdrop of New York City’s lockdown. The couple collected the greatest hits of their quarantine series, which ran from March to June, into Force Majeure, a 51-minute, proudly impromptu record. : pitchfork.com