Body Method’s fourth release taps one of New England’s most vital underground figures: Brianna Paon, founder of Boston’s beloved Vertebrae party and label.

On Hot Mess / Incubator, Paon channels her singular approach to club music into two maximalist-minimalist cuts—stripped-back but overwhelming, alien yet undeniably familiar.

“Hot Mess” unfolds like sonar from a distant planet. Subaquatic echoes and queasy, rubbery synths anchor a rhythm that’s equal parts techno pulse and sci-fi panic. Siren-like leads and insectoid buzzes duel in a surreal call-and-response, while a disembodied voice murmurs through layers of delay, offering a pulse as cryptic as it is propulsive.

“Incubator” comes in swinging. Here, Paon leans into leftfield electro and low-end chaos, pitting crunching bass and ratcheting percussion against a backdrop of scrap-metal atmospheres and cold dystopian dread. Halfway through, the track slips into overdrive, snapping into a 4x4 beat that sounds like a prison break from a cyberpunk underworld.

With Hot Mess / Incubator, Paon builds on the strange, ungovernable worlds of her solo Vertebrae output—offering two tracks that feel like coded transmissions from the edges of the rave, for only the headiest of heads to decipher.