A picture of an object in midair doesn’t necessarily tell you whether it’s on the way up or down. There is no logic, no history, no narrative arc—just the present tense, the suspension of a single moment. So perhaps it was inevitable that Paris Texas, the wildly inventive duo from Los Angeles who blend various strains of rap and rock music into a fugue of pure energy and irresistible urgency, would name their full-length debut Mid Air. Whether filtered through songs like the serrated “ahead” or the pulsing, playful “trying to kill me,” this ethos—of commitment to whatever feels nakedly true in a given instant—makes members Louie Pastel and Felix unmissable voices in music today, essential translators of the end times.