When Aya Sinclair was a teenager growing up in Huddersfield—a town in the north of England between Manchester and Leeds—she felt herself come to life in the swell of Christian rock. Sinclair confided in her church’s leaders, and they told her to keep herself locked in the closet or leave. Sinclair’s debut album as aya, 2021’s im hole, paired derealized drone confessionals with gabber-lite wallops. Now based in South London, aya wrote and recorded her second album, hexed!, from the perspective of early sobriety. On hexed!, it’s real.