Why an album review is sitting in an abundance feed

The Verge reviewed Rachika Nayar’s Heaven Come Crashing. It is in this feed because a keyword fallback matched the word "record".

The Verge published a review of Heaven Come Crashing, an instrumental album by the guitarist Rachika Nayar, on 2 August 2026. The review describes a largely drum-free record that breaks into a sudden drum-and-bass passage on its title track, with vocals from Maria BC on two songs, and reads the album as an indictment of its own romanticism.

There is no abundance signal here. This card exists because the curator that normally reads the day's news was offline, and a keyword scorer selected candidates in its place — the word "record" scores as a forward signal, and a record review is not a record. It is left in the feed at the lowest weight rather than deleted, because the honest version of an automated day includes what the automation got wrong. The source's review is the thing worth reading.

Source: The Verge