As the average piece of recorded music has gotten louder, wilder, and everything-er in the digital era, sound collages have blossomed. The 2020s have been full of young artists whose brains were rewired by E+E , Chuquimamani-Condori ’s early alias for sputtering patchworks of Latin electronica, and revel in semioblitz bliss. This music isn’t about overload or unholy collisions for the sake of it; it’s bound together by an autobiographical thread, where the disparate sounds intentionally express elements of their ideology and reveal something about the way they experience the world. They’re channeling the private anxieties, joys, and memories of their communities—be it Venezuelan teens pining for a better future, alienated queer kids , or young Black friends .

Among this generation’s finest is a 20-year-old computer science and fashion design student named Chidi Obialo, or heavensouls . He’s in a duo with his buddy stickerbush called the Sidepeices.…