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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, highlighting 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.
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Nathan Yoder
Jul 30, 2020
Pickathon Retrospective
Normally, I would be headed out to Pendarvis Farm this afternoon to celebrate the best weekend of the year. But since nothing is normal in

Nathan Yoder
Jul 30, 2020
"Currently" with C. Diab
Our third "Currently" entry is from C. Diab, a multi-instrumentalist based out of Vancouver, BC who composes what he calls "Cascadian guitar


Nathan Yoder
Jul 27, 2020
Album of the Week - Slow Meadow - By the Ash Tree
Comprised of an intro, an outro, two reworks, and one new song, Texan composer Matt Kidd pares back the walls of sound he built on 2019's Ha


Nathan Yoder
Jul 20, 2020
Album of the Week - Tomotsugu Nakamura - Literature
The Books were pioneers when it came to cobbling together glitchy electroacoustic compositions, often with a wryly silly and irreverent skew


Nathan Yoder
Jul 20, 2020
Album of the Week - Julianna Barwick - Healing is a Miracle
Julianna Barwick's music is both delicate and powerful. Her layers of looped soprano float like clouds, weightless and ethereal.


Nathan Yoder
Jul 6, 2020
Album of the Week - Kin Leonn and Hiroshi Ebina - Faraway Vicinity
Creative sound artists Kin Leonn and Hiroshi Ebina join forces on Faraway Vicinity to paint four landscapes, blending field recordings with


Nathan Yoder
Jul 2, 2020
Thanks (Again)
July marks sixth months of this iteration of Deepest Currents. As I've previously stated, DC lived in a personal Wordpress blog for a numbe


Nathan Yoder
Jul 1, 2020
"Currently" with Jeffrey Silverstein
Our second "Currently" entry is from Jeffrey Silverstein, a Portland-based musician, writer, and teacher.


Nathan Yoder
Jun 30, 2020
Album Preview - t0k4 - Naga
This Friday, Portland producer t0k4 will send a set of spectral tracks out into the bright July sunlight. His album, Naga, contains eight c


Nathan Yoder
Jun 29, 2020
Album of the Week - William Cashion - Postcard Music
William Cashion, bassist for Future Islands, just released his debut solo album - a collection of 11 vignettes evoking nature-based nostalgi


Nathan Yoder
Jun 22, 2020
Album of the Week - Kahlil Blu - Dog
It's been a banner year for New York rap. Medhane's FULL CIRCLE and then Cold Water, as well as MIKE's just-released Weight of the World ea


Nathan Yoder
Jun 18, 2020
"Currently" with Ilyas Ahmed
Our first "Currently" entry is from Ilyas Ahmed, a Portland-based musician and visual artist. Besides his prolific solo work, which ranges


Nathan Yoder
Jun 15, 2020
Album of the Week - Gia Margaret - Mia Gargaret
Chicago-based singer/songwriter Gia Margaret's second album is a sonic departure from her first, and strangely, this unexpected shift was bo


Nathan Yoder
Jun 8, 2020
Album of the Week - Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Sideways to New Italy
Like the lovable indie dads, Real Estate, RBCF is a five-piece band whose clever lyrics and trebly guitar tones define their sound. However


Nathan Yoder
Jun 1, 2020
Album of the Week - David Grubbs & Taku Unami - Comet Meta
On Comet Meta, David Grubbs and Taku Unami utilize guitar, piano, and light field recordings across seven tracks to create starkly beautiful


Nathan Yoder
May 31, 2020
DC Summer Radio - Hour Three
Week three (embedded below) features my personal entry point into city pop, gold-tinged lo-fi rap, laid back Hawaiian melodies, and an instr


Nathan Yoder
May 25, 2020
Album of the Week - Fools - Fools' Harp, Vol. 1
Fools is the solo project of Christopher Bear, a multi-instrumentalist for the indie-experimental darlings Grizzly Bear. He has also perfor


Nathan Yoder
May 23, 2020
DC Summer Radio - Hour Two
Week two (embedded below) features Mexican folk, western-inspired glitch-hop, pillars of soul, and classic Brazilian rock n' roll.


Nathan Yoder
May 19, 2020
Album Preview - Methods Body - S/T
Methods Body, the Portland-based duo of John Niekrasz and Luke Wyland, releases their debut album this Friday through Beacon Sound and New A


Nathan Yoder
May 18, 2020
Album of the Week - Andrew Tuttle - Alexandra
Andrew Tuttle grew up in the community of Alexandra Hills, outside Brisbane, and his fourth album serves as a tribute to the place he learne
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