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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

Nov 10, 2020

Album Preview - William Basinski - Lamentations

Lamentations is an anthology of sorts, and the massive scope of recordings Basinski has collaged together from 40 years of archival entries

Nathan Yoder

Nov 9, 2020

Album of the Week - Gidge - New Light

Sometimes nature-based albums feel lazily pastoral, but on New Light, Gidge presents PNW landscapes as active and dynamic. The title track

Nathan Yoder

Nov 2, 2020

Album Preview - Secret School - Ambergris

Secret School has expressed a love of both ambient and dance music, and on Ambergris, his unique blending of these genres with neoclassical

Nathan Yoder

Nov 2, 2020

Albums of the Week - Selah Broderick - Anam + Mat Eric Hart Spirits & Reflections

Both selections not only feature beautiful music, but are also tinged with nostalgia - the artists seeming to recognize the importance of

Nathan Yoder

Oct 29, 2020

Album Preview - Benjamin Finger & James Plotkin - We Carry the Curse

Though there are elements of drone through the four long-form tracks found on We Carry the Curse, each track is filled with unique texture.

Nathan Yoder

Oct 28, 2020

Album Preview - Barry Walker - Shoulda Zenith

So many folks in the Portland music scene could play "seven degrees of separation" from Barry Walker, and get there in just two or three ste

Nathan Yoder

Oct 26, 2020

Album of the Week - Adrianne Lenker - Instrumentals

DC's tagline is "a space to discover new sounds" but you've likely heard of Adrianne Lenker by now. Indie music circles have heaped praise

Nathan Yoder

Oct 21, 2020

Album Preview - Cécile Seraud - Shoden

Cécile Seraud is an accomplished musician who has studied classical guitar since the age of five. But a few years ago, the French guitarist

Nathan Yoder

Oct 19, 2020

Album of the Week - Hideyuki Hashimoto - breath

Little information is given about breath, but it is billed as a "live album," unlike the rest of Hashimoto's catalogue of carefully captured

Nathan Yoder

Oct 15, 2020

Album Preview - Oliver Coates - skins n slime

British cellist and producer Oliver Coates is a visionary musician, pushing the boundaries of what his instrument can do. On his critically

Nathan Yoder

Oct 14, 2020

Album Preview - Michael Scott Dawson - Nowhere, Middle of

Music has the power to center us. To set us in place with both feet on the ground. When Canadian sound artist Michael Scott Dawson (of Lib

Nathan Yoder

Oct 13, 2020

Album Preview - Snowdrops - Volutes

Snowdrops is the experimental chamber project of renowned ondist Christine Ott and mellotronist Mathieu Gabry (both of whom also play piano

Nathan Yoder

Oct 12, 2020

Album Preview - Andrée Burelli - De Sidera

De Sidera is mostly instrumental, but Burelli sings wordless vocals on two of the album's central productions: the title track and side B's

Nathan Yoder

Oct 12, 2020

Album of the Week - Gunn-Truscinski Duo - Soundkeeper

Listening to Soundkeeper, the new double-LP and fourth collaborative offering from guitarist Steve Gunn and drummer John Truscinski, is a jo

Nathan Yoder

Oct 8, 2020

Album Preview - zakè - Geneva

Though zakè is the credited artist here, prolific Indianapolis-based ambient label Past Inside the Present is releasing an album tomorrow wh

Nathan Yoder

Oct 7, 2020

Album Preview - North Americans - Roped In

Patrick McDermott, who records as "North Americans" out of LA, constructs spare and delicate guitar-centrict music. Like Third Man labelmat

Nathan Yoder

Oct 6, 2020

Album Preview - J. Pavone String Ensemble - Lost and Found

Not only is Jessica Pavone is a rising multi-instrumentalist and composer, noticed by publications such as NPR Music, The Wire, and The New

Nathan Yoder

Oct 5, 2020

Album of the Week - V/A - Particle Count

When Wellman dreamt up Particle Count, he wanted to pay tribute to spaces affected by the recent fires by enlisting the help of musicians, c

Nathan Yoder

Oct 1, 2020

Album Review - A Little Night Music: Aural Apparitions from the Geographic North

Not a preview today, but a REview, and a spooky one at that! It's October first, which means Geographic North has released its third Hallow

Nathan Yoder

Sep 28, 2020

Album of the Week - Meitei - Kofu / 古風

Meitei is an artist with a profound reverence for Japan's past, wanting to capture and catalogue tales rooted in fading tradition. Kofu is

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