Milwaukee’s resident purveyor of beautifully unsettling sound, Dr. Organ, is back with another dispatch from the deep end of the experimental pool. The new release, Hospice Anthems, arrives as the latest chapter in a catalog that already includes the woozy charm of Amateur Hour, last year’s Apocrypha, and this year’s earlier Black Coffee. If you were hoping the good doctor was going to lighten up, well, the title alone should disabuse you of that notion.

Hospice Anthems lives up to its name in the best possible way. These are songs for the in-between, sketches that feel less like compositions and more like overheard transmissions from a waiting room at the edge of something. Dr. Organ continues to operate in that uniquely Milwaukee tradition of artists who treat genre boundaries as polite suggestions, weaving drone, ambient texture, lo-fi pop instincts, and a streak of dark humor into something that shouldn’t cohere but absolutely does.

What makes the record work is its commitment to mood. There’s a patience to the arrangements, a willingness to let a single sustained tone do the heavy lifting before a melody slips in sideways. It’s experimental music that isn’t afraid to be tender, and gallows-funny music that isn’t afraid to break your heart. Fans of the Milwaukee underground will recognize the fingerprints immediately: handmade, unhurried, and quietly weird in a way that rewards repeat listening.

Stream Hospice Anthems in full on Bandcamp below, and consider tossing a few bucks toward an artist who keeps the city’s experimental scene genuinely interesting.