Review: Jessica Pavone – “Lull” November 3, 2021 “Hartford,” the third song off Jessica Pavone and Mary Halvorson’s collaborative On and Off LP from 2007, has noisy descents that paint an easy smile across… Continue Reading
Review: From the Mouth of the Sun – “Light Caught The Edges” October 23, 2021 There’s reason to be very excited for Light Caught the Edges, the fourth LP from ambient duo From the Mouth of the Sun, out Oct…. Continue Reading
Feature: Rediscover “Gone Glimmering” October 23, 2021 In the mid-1990s, while math rock’s Don Caballero moved forward a modus operandi of the complicated, inverted time signatures culled from Slint’s Spiderland, others were… Continue Reading
Review: The Colorist Orchestra and Howe Gelb – “Not on the Map” October 23, 2021 The fundamental idea of The Colorist Orchestra’s work, the pop/chamber collective writes on its website, “is to rearrange the repertoire of an invited singer-songwriter.”… Continue Reading
Review: Melvins – “Five-Legged Dog” October 14, 2021 The Melvins, God bless them, always have been an act eager to revisit their canon, to dive deep into the discography, and see what new… Continue Reading
Review: Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine – “A Beginner’s Mind” October 8, 2021 The name of Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine’s new collaborative LP is A Beginner’s Mind, a reference to a Zen Buddhist concept – shoshin – that inspired the… Continue Reading
Review: Directions – “Echoes” (Anniversary Edition) September 13, 2021 A seemingly incidental sliver of indie music history is being given the special edition re-release treatment by Temporary Residence, and God bless the label… Continue Reading
Review: Low – “Hey What” September 13, 2021 The record starts with a muted buzzsaw and a recording of unnamable industrial noise but, don’t be mistaken: Low’s new LP is not the… Continue Reading
Review: Clara Engel – “Dressed In Borrowed Light” August 24, 2021 Clara Engel makes skeletal music whose bizarre sense of Minimalist scale is only outstripped by the haunted and almost foreboding nature of the soundscapes… Continue Reading
Review: Eluvium – “Virga II” August 24, 2021 When ambient composer Matthew Cooper released Virga I in December 2019 – ages ago, as the world turns – he had no reason to foresee what… Continue Reading
