Album Preview - Ian William Craig & Daniel Lentz - In a Word
For RVNG Intl.'s 16th volume in their FRKWYS series, in which they invite two musicians of different generations to collaborate, the Brookly
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Nathan Yoder
- Nov 17, 2020
Album Preview - Lisa/Liza - Shelter of a Song
When Liza Victoria repeats the lyric "you know I've walked down dark alleys" through the opening track of her new album, it sounds like a li
Nathan Yoder
- Nov 16, 2020
Album Preview - Jordan Reyes - Sand Like Stardust
On his first album, Reyes used only eurorack synthesizer, but knew that on Sand Like Stardust, he wanted to explore a more organic sound. T
Nathan Yoder
- Nov 16, 2020
Album of the Week - Ana Roxanne - Because of a Flower
Because of a Flower is Ana Roxanne's first official full-length album (though ~~~ is a noteworthy release, too) and it took five years of ha
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
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