The Sudan-born, Minneapolis-raised musician has spent the last few years working with Travis Scott, co-starring on a Netflix show, and making an ambitious concept album

Natural catastrophes keep following Dua Saleh . When the singer-songwriter moved to Glendale, California, a few years ago, they found themselves ill-prepared for Los Angeles’ annual wildfires. When they decamped to Wales to film the Netflix show Sex Education , they were taken aback by the flooding in Cardiff.

All of these experiences got Saleh, 31, thinking deeply about dystopia and destruction. They wrote a song called “Flood.” They began thinking more about the planet, its ecosystems, and its long-term sustainability. “I was like, ‘Damn, we’re not paying enough attention to how our home is being affected,’” they say. “We’re apathetic: There’s so much nihilism in our society because we’re just traumamaxxing, but we’re also watching politicians jestermaxxing.…