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Deepest Currents is a Portland, Oregon-based music website, focusing on new releases and general reviews, as well as cultural events happening around the Pacific Northwest. Genre coverage varies widely, capturing everything from indie rock to experimental. Navigate to the "About Us" tab for more information and the "Contact" tab to reach out. To browse what has been written already, scan this page, visit the "New Music" or "Features" tabs, or use the search function.

Nathan Yoder

17 hours ago

Song Premiere: Dolphin Midwives - Bloom

Bloom is warbling mix of Fisher's layered vocals and ambient noise - perhaps some synth and a little harp? She sings the phrase "I want to

Nathan Yoder

3 days ago

Recommended Listening: Tender Crust - FS100

A huge congratulations goes out to Full Spectrum Records, who celebrates their 100th release on May 7th. Woot woot! Across 12 years, the n

Nathan Yoder

4 days ago

Recommended Listening: Joseph Shabason - The Fellowship

The album's narrative arc follows Shabason from his upbringing in an Islamic and Jewish dual-faith household, through his rocky teenage and

Nathan Yoder

5 days ago

Recommended Listening: Ned Milligan - Enter Outside; jason calhoun - introduction to an apology

Milligan actually released two full albums this past Friday on his Florabelle label. One carries his own music, and the other release is a

Nathan Yoder

Apr 27

Recommended Listening: Ben Seretan - Cicada Waves

Last summer, Seretan traveled to the base of the Appalachian Mountains for a two-week artist residency. He had been given the opportunity t

Nathan Yoder

Apr 26

Recommended Listening: Arooj Aftab - Vulture Prince

Over the past couple of months, Arooj Aftab's Vulture Prince has been hyped by NPR, NYT, Pitchfork, and so many other industry titans. Toge

Nathan Yoder

Apr 21

Video Premiere: Anarchist Mountains Trio - Conspiracy Means Breathing Together

"This video/sound collaboration is part of an ongoing sonic dialogue that informs the Anarchist Mountains project, the creation of sonic lan

Nathan Yoder

Apr 20

Recommended Listening: Ki Oni - Stay Indoors and Swim

Like so many ambient artists, Chuck Soo-Hoo (who records as Ki Oni) thematically centers much of his music around natural phenomena and livi

Nathan Yoder

Apr 19

Recommended Listening: Alexandra Spence - A Necessary Softness

Alexandra Spence, a globe-trekking Australian sound artist, released a pair of excellent performance pieces this past Friday. Tidewater and

Nathan Yoder

Apr 15

Recommended Listening: M. Sage - The Wind of Things

Sage currently lives in Chicago, but The Wind of Things is a travelogue of sorts. He grew up in rural Nebraska, and to us, his music groans

Nathan Yoder

Apr 14

Recommended Listening: Didacte - Revenir; Adrien Casalis - Ghost; Leon den Engelsen - Growth

Piano and Coffee Records is really getting at it this spring. The Valencia-based, contemporary classical label founded by Sergio Diaz De Ro

Nathan Yoder

Apr 13

Recommended Listening: Balmorhea - The Wind

The Wind feels intensely cinematic. There are spare moments, certainly, but also a good number of melancholy dips followed by emotional cre

Nathan Yoder

Apr 2

Song Premiere - Leider - Human Error

Leider is a Berlin-based ensemble who plays music that, frankly, is hard to classify. Human Error feels unsettling from the opening notes,

Nathan Yoder

Apr 1

Recommended Listening: Taylor Deupree - Mur

Explaining Mur and its peculiarly-titled songs, Taylor Deupree writes, "...there's always something about my music that's like a murmur." W

Nathan Yoder

Mar 31

Recommended Listening: marine eyes - idyll

Her solo debut, idyll is breathtaking. There is no shortage of ambient music these days (in an era of borderline oversaturation), but three

Nathan Yoder

Mar 30

Recommended Listening: Floatie - Voyage Out

Floatie combines Palm's twisting, intricate rhythms with Mothers' pace and melody. They write smart, angular pop songs that bop along and b

Nathan Yoder

Mar 29

Recommended Listening: Armand Hammer and The Alchemist - Haram

Armand Hammer, the duo of E L U C I D and billy woods, grabbed our attention last year with Shrines. Maybe it was their impressive list of

Nathan Yoder

Mar 26

Song Premiere: Night Heron - Strangerz

Though their new single is titled Strangerz, those of you steeped in the Portland music scene might consider Night Heron somewhat familiar,

Nathan Yoder

Mar 25

Recommended Listening: Ueda Takayasu - Every Clouds Call Our Name

It's sort of a miracle that we get to hear Every Clouds Call Our Name at all. Born in Hiroshima, raised in Germany and Austria, and often c

Nathan Yoder

Mar 24

Recommended Listening: Havadine Stone - Hyena

Sitting with Hyena straight through leaves the listener a bit disoriented, as Stone's art is rooted in the noisy wash of unremarkable, every

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