Music: Autechre

Since the early ’90s, English duo Sean Booth and Rob Brown have made un-dancey electronic music justly classified as cerebral and complex. Just don’t equate that with a lack of emotion. Dig into Autechre’s skittish, techno-forged creations—that is, truly focus on them the way you would a film or book, without distraction—and you’ll discover a digital world awash in warmth and feeling. Where to start? Your mileage may vary, but here’s one suggested sequence: Garbage EP (’95), Chiastic Slide (’97), Confield (’01) and Exai (’13). If you’re still onboard after that, dip into this month’s batch of live downloads, available direct at autechre.bleepstores.com. –Spencer Patterson

Television: Unorthodox

Based loosely on the events in Deborah Feldman’s memoir, Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots, this new miniseries follows Esther “Esty” Shapiro as she navigates life as a recently married 19-year-old woman in Brooklyn’s Satmar Hasidic community. Bound by the patriarchal and archaic traditions of her strict religious environment and unhappy in her marriage, Shapiro flees to Berlin, where a new world and life awaits. Netflix. –Leslie Ventura

Music: Gorillaz

You might consider Gorillaz a gimmick act. That’s fine. The band’s founders—Blur’s Damon Albarn and Tank Girl creator Jamie Hewlett—have labored to sell that perception. But since the cartoon dance pop/hip-hop fusion outfit began life 20 years ago, it has dropped one danceable classic after another—“Clint Eastwood,” “Feel Good Inc.,” “Stylo”—with great videos to match. The yearlong “Song Machine” project, begun in January, has already yielded another: the Peter Hook-driven “Aries.” Make its distinctive video (bit.ly/3agg60C) your entry point to Gorillaz’s entire catalog of upbeat charmers. –Geoff Carter

Podcast: By the Book

Ever wondered about the “help” found in self-help books? Would The 4-Hour Workweek really make you more productive? Might The Five Love Languages fix your relationship? Could The Secret make you rich? But who’s got time for all that, right? Now in its sixth season, this podcast does the hard—and often hilarious—work of exploring the self-help genre for you. In each episode, co-hosts Jolenta Greenburg and Kristen Meinzer live by a different self-help book “to the letter” for two weeks. The results are both entertaining and insightful. bythebookpod.com. –C. Moon Reed

Television: Little Fires Everywhere

The small-screen adaptation of Celeste Ng’s critically acclaimed 2017 novel, Little Fires Everywhere, is a binge-worthy yarn that touches on race and class issues and the fraught relationship between mothers and daughters. While some plot points work better in novel form, strong performances by Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington give this miniseries its heart. Plus, it has a nostalgia-inducing ’90s soundtrack—and also Pacey from Dawson’s Creek, in full dad mode. Hulu. –Genevie Durano