Jan 11, 2010 Music Wind’s Poem Finds Phil Elverum Rushing Headlong Into the Void (Review) Put simply, Wind’s Poem is the most haunting album I picked up in 2009.
Aug 27, 2009 Music Cartography by Arve Henriksen (Review) Arve Henriksen may be a “jazz trumpeter,” but calling Cartography a “jazz album” simply doesn’t do it justice.
Dec 2, 2008 Music Tri EP by Lansing-Dreiden (Review) Three all-too-short tracks that show off Lansing-Dreiden’s music in all of its glorious and maddening facets.
Feb 16, 2008 Music Chorus by lovesliescrushing (Review) Even among diehard shoegazer fans, Chorus might be something of an acquired taste, but it’s never less than fascinating.
Dec 5, 2007 Music Live’r Than You’ll Ever Be by The Kleptones (Review) A madcap pastiche that’s everything you’ve come to expect from The Kleptones.
Oct 18, 2007 Music In Rainbows by Radiohead (Review) The sound of a band completely comfortable inside its own skin and supremely confident in their skills.
Aug 12, 2007 Music Altered Realities by Erdem Helvacıoğlu (Review) The disc has a highly improvised feel to it, based entirely around the live electronic manipulation of Helvacıoğlu’s acoustic guitar.
Jul 8, 2007 Music In the Gloaming by Henry Flower (Review) These four songs are inspired by the paintings of Claude Monet, J. M. W. Turner, Ken Bushe, and Mark Rothko.
Jul 8, 2007 Music Non Resurgam by Henry Flower (Review) The EP’s four songs were created by improvising guitar lines through various effects boxes.
Apr 25, 2007 Music Eleven Continents by Ryan Francesconi, Lili De La Mora (Review) This music is full of embellishment while sounding neither gaudy nor ostentatious.
Apr 11, 2007 Music Drums and Guns by Low (Review) One of the best albums of 2007 so far, as well as one of the best albums of Low’s career.
Jan 28, 2007 Music Friend Opportunity by Deerhoof (Review) Deerhoof’s experimentation often seems to serve no other purpose than to show off that the band can, indeed, experiment.
Jan 27, 2007 Music We Know About The Need by Bracken (Review) Those expecting to hear the pastoral soundscapes that Hood meanders through on their albums might be a bit surprised.
Jan 14, 2007 Music Shades of a Vast Moment by Void’s Anatomy (Review) Jorge’s songs pirouette on the edge of an abyss, her delicate voice seemingly quite outmatched by the long, dark night of the soul that she faces.
Dec 17, 2006 Best of Opus Music Songs for Christmas by Sufjan Stevens (Review) I’ve heard most of the songs on here before, countless times. But I had never heard them like this, in such a sublime context.
Dec 12, 2006 Music Songs From Before by Max Richter (Review) Richter’s music is perfectly suited to the themes of loss, nostalgia, and alienation that permeate Haruki Murakami’s work.
Dec 2, 2006 Music IBM 1401, A User’s Manual by Jóhann Jóhannsson (Review) A tribute to an old computer, the five long tracks that make up this disc are elegiac and gorgeous.
Nov 19, 2006 Music Songs for Creeps by The Places (Review) Annelle’s songs encapsulate entire tiny little worlds of sound, conjuring up dim images of broken down places and darkened rooms pregnant with memory and longing.
Sep 3, 2006 Music Mosaic by Wovenhand (Review) ‘Mosaic’ displays both the greatest strengths of Woven Hand’s music as well as its greatest weaknesses.