Without wishing to generalise, reviewers prefer covering debut albums. Introducing a fresh artist’s music to a new group of potential followers provides a mild fillip for the writer who can say that they have been on board from the start.| a closer listen
Exactly one year ago today, Hurricane Helene hit an unsuspecting Asheville, North Carolina and a swath of surrounding areas, causing momentous flooding and devastation. To mark the one-year anniversary, Asheville imprint Ceremony of Seasons releases a massive 30-track, 3 hour, 20| a closer listen
We have covered releases by both William Tyler (as recently as 23rd April this year) and Kieran Hebden (as Four Tet), but even so, this is a surprising collaboration that originally appeared on the single “Darkness, Darkness” / “No Services”| a closer listen
What’s black and white and red all over? The entire history of the webuildmachines label up to this point, which makes the new color palette of Personas all the more striking. Ryan Miller is the label’s founder and flagship artist, typically| a closer listen
When your musical identity changes, are you still you? This is the question faced by Erol Sarp and Lukas Vogel, whose first ten years of recording as Grandbrothers were marked by a singular approach: every sound in their music, direct or indirect,| a closer listen
Today is the first day of fall, which means the air should be growing slowly colder in the Northern Hemisphere. And yet, year to year, the air is growing swiftly warmer around the world. This is the impetus for forms| a closer listen
And we’re back after the Summer break with another packed episode from the four corners of Ukraine. We start off in Kyiv (via Baku) addressing anxiety with äsc3ea a common feeling for many Ukrainians; in Kryvy Rih, we meet ДЖАП| a closer listen
In standard verbiage, light tends to glow, to shine, to radiate. In summoning an image of light as something that might flow, London-based cellist and curator Clare O’Connell evokes a subtle tensio…| a closer listen
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