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
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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
Nathan Yoder
- Mar 18
Spring Sketches
DC offers up a few sounds which don't quite amount to a full playlist, but when sequenced one after another, they add some bright hues and v
Nathan Yoder
- Mar 11
Recommended Listening: Whettman Chelmets - For...
Interestingly, For... begins with two fall tracks, though the album was recorded and released in spring months. These opening constructions
Nathan Yoder
- Mar 10
Recommended Listening: Josh Medina - Drifting Toward the Absolute
Besides guitar, Medina utilizes synth and tape to paint these blissful creations which seem to float along through a cloudless sky. However
Nathan Yoder
- Mar 10
Recommended Listening: Rhucle - Cycle
The Tokyo-based sound artist just released his album, Cycle, last Friday through the ever-excellent Aural Canyon. On it, he blends synth wa
Nathan Yoder
- Mar 9
A Chat with Patrick McDermott of North Americans
North Americans is a collaborative instrumental guitar project with McDermott at the helm, and he was gracious enough to take our call a few
Nathan Yoder
- Mar 4
Recommended Listening: claire rousay - a softer focus
The album feels a bit like a combination of rousay's familiar noisy inclinations blended with fresh melodic elements. There are some signat
Nathan Yoder
- Mar 3
Recommended Listening: Cameron Knowler & Eli Winter - Anticipation
Cameron Knowler and Eli Winter are two masters of the six string, but arrived at these distinctions via very different routes. Knowler is a
Nathan Yoder
- Mar 1
Recommended Listening: Nebel lang - Hand in mine
The album is essentially comprised of two longform improvisations (after a 19-second opening track meant to situate the listener). The firs
Nathan Yoder
- Feb 25
Recommended Listening: Dylan Henner - Great Prairie Plains: Studies of American Minimalism
Great Prairie Plains is a tribute of sorts - a cover album comprised of two longform works originally written by a couple of masters of Amer
Nathan Yoder
- Feb 23
Recommended Listening: Rachika Nayar - Our Hands Against The Dusk
Over eight shimmering tracks, the Brooklyn-based composer loops and layers guitar, synth, piano, strings, and vocals. But instead of the or
Nathan Yoder
- Feb 22
Recommended Listening: Field Works - Cedars
On his new album, Hyatt blends familiar Americana with something wholly international. Cedars, it turns out, is a dual-language, cosmic Mid
Nathan Yoder
- Feb 17
Recommended Listening: Jeffrey Silverstein - Torii Gates
Using six sonic constructions to prompt introspection, Silverstein invites us to explore personal notions of peace and wonder, while also n
Nathan Yoder
- Feb 16
Recommended Listening: Federico Mosconi - Dreamers and Tides
Mosconi is an Italian guitarist well versed in multimedia composition. On his new work for Russian label, Dronarivm, he straddles space bet
Nathan Yoder
- Feb 10
Recommended Listening: Chuck Johnson - The Cinder Grove
The Cinder Grove is a collection of five songs between seven and eleven minutes long. Johnson's pedal steel might be the most distinguishab
Nathan Yoder
- Feb 9
Song Premiere: Juha Mäki-Patola - Steps
About the track, the artist writes, "The idea of “Steps” is based on a low and deep pedal point that creates a solid ground for a repeated p