Fall 2021 Music Preview
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Nathan Yoder
- Sep 21
Song Premiere: Adeline Hotel - In a Simple Way
In A Simple Way sows together sounds you'll hear across The Cherries Are Speaking, feeling a bit like a stolen peek over a wall into Adeline
Nathan Yoder
- Sep 16
Song Premiere: Andy Aquarius - Chapel
Chapel opens with three minutes of solo harp, but Aquarius' plucking is anything but spare. On his homemade instrument (!!!) the musician i
Nathan Yoder
- Sep 7
Recommended Listening: Nico Hedley - Painterly
There are many impressive elements on Painterly, but the first to stand out is Hedley's voice. With a Buck Meek tone, he delivers lines abo
Nathan Yoder
- Sep 7
Recommended Listening: Rob Collier - Moving Backwards
Collier's five spare, meditative piano pieces do not actually move us backwards (an impossibility), but they do slow things down for a momen
Nathan Yoder
- Sep 3
Song Premiere: Starlight Assembly - Still Air
Still Air is a perfect entry point into the sonic universe which Starlight Assembly has realized together - a song blending singular vocal p
Nathan Yoder
- Aug 25
Recommended Listening: Virke - Hovsjö 80
Musically, Virke decided to stick with a fairly simple approach (using just a drum machine, a vintage synth, and two Jags), but across Hovsj
Nathan Yoder
- Aug 24
Recommended Listening: Gerycz/Powers/Rolin - Lamplighter
About halfway into Lamplighter's opening track, Rotations, you can tell the album is going to be special. Rolin's strums are the first note
Nathan Yoder
- Aug 23
Recommended Listening: Andrew Wasylyk - Balgay Hill: Morning in Magnolia
Like he did on last year's Fugitive Light and Themes of Consolation (which we also adored), Wasylyk dabbles in nostalgia-tinged ambient jazz
Nathan Yoder
- Aug 16
Recommended Listening: Bruno Bavota - For Apartments: Songs & Loops
In early 2020, the pandemic ravaged Italy, the home nation of composer Bruno Bavota. Like many others, Bavota went into isolation and waite
Nathan Yoder
- Aug 12
Recommended Listening: Li Yilei - 之 / OF
On 之 / OF, Li Yilei uses synths, stringed instruments, vocal samples, and field recordings to create pieces which range in landscape from va
Nathan Yoder
- Aug 11
Recommended Listening: Eluvium - Virga II
Virga II is meant for relaxation. It is comprised of four extended loops - meditations to help listeners soothe anxieties. It is preceded,
Nathan Yoder
- Aug 9
Recommended Listening: Rachika Nayar - fragments
Nayar's new EP is very much a companion piece to Our Hands Against the Dusk, and the chosen title, fragments, describes just what you'll hea
Nathan Yoder
- Aug 5
Recommended Listening: Winterlight - Gestural Abstractions
Giving some listening time to Winterlight in the height of summer may seem a bit odd, but trust us, Gestural Abstractions, the band's new al
Nathan Yoder
- Aug 3
Song Premiere: Marv - Tokyo TX
Environmental music has experienced quite the resurgence in recent years, but until last week, we had never heard a keyboard track backed by
Nathan Yoder
- Jul 15
Recommended Listening: Emmalee Hunnicutt - Picnic, Moonside
Picnic, Moonside is a love letter composed by Emmalee Hunnicutt to the world around her, but instead of settling on the traditional pen and
Nathan Yoder
- Jul 14
Recommended Listening: Nicola Di Croce - Hearing Voices
Di Croce is a Venice-based artist whose research and sonic output focuses primarily on the relationship between territory and sound. To rec
Nathan Yoder
- Jul 13
Song Premiere: Carmen Q. Rothwell - Blissful Ignore
For many musicians, songwriting can feel therapeutic - a way to channel energy toward a creative outlet and lose yourself in the process....
Nathan Yoder
- Jul 7
Recommended Listening: Hollie Kenniff - The Quiet Drift
Hollie Kenniff could not have chosen a more perfect title for her album out next week on Western Vinyl. The Quiet Drift is exactly that - a
Nathan Yoder
- Jul 6
Recommended Listening: Izzy Johnson - Earth Tones
Johnson's intricate acoustic fingerpicking acts as the structure for each of the ten tracks on Earth Tones. Sometimes clean electric shines