NSQK on 'MOSCA', Kafka, and the Dark Side of Chasing Greatness

NSQK was watching his career reach new heights when a mysterious fly infestation turned his apartment into something straight out of a horror movie. As his album ATP gained momentum and bigger stages came into view, the Mexican artist found himself killing up to 20 flies a day in his Monterrey home. What started as a bizarre inconvenience soon became the unlikely foundation for his third studio album, MOSCA.At the time, NSQK was reading Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, a story that began to feel...