DC's Favorite Songs of 2021
Many of the tracks we favor carry a poppy flavor (please forgive the rhyme), as you'll see in our roundup below. Sure, the albums we cover
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Nathan Yoder
- Oct 18, 2021
The Black Dice!
Black Dice (there is no "the" in the group's name, actually), collage together these psychedelic scraps to make woozy electronic jams. Biza
Nathan Yoder
- Oct 4, 2021
A Treefort Weekend - Five Favorites
Each year I look forward to Boise's Treefort Music Fest. It always feels like the start of winter's thaw, and the energy in the city's stre
Nathan Yoder
- Sep 22, 2021
Fall 2021 Music Preview
Go ahead and bookmark this post, follow the featured artists on socials, preorder albums on Bandcamp - whatever, really! Hope y'all have a
Nathan Yoder
- Sep 21, 2021
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, 2021
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 14, 2021
Saariselka+Golden Retriever at The Old Church & Marisa Anderson+William Tyler at Mississippi Studios
Finally, a concert review! It's been just about nineteen months since I wrote about Fennesz blowing out the Holocene sound system right b
Nathan Yoder
- Sep 7, 2021
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, 2021
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, 2021
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, 2021
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, 2021
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, 2021
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 17, 2021
A Chat with Peter Broderick
Over my years as an obsessive music consumer and researcher, I've noticed Peter Broderick's name everywhere. Producer credits. Accompanist
Nathan Yoder
- Aug 16, 2021
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, 2021
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, 2021
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 10, 2021
A Chat with Lucy Claire
Lucy Claire is a London-based artist who explores the intersections of classical composition, nature-based field recording, spoken word, and
Nathan Yoder
- Aug 9, 2021
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, 2021
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
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