“Music” Archives

The gently unsettling aspects of Nico Niquo’s ambience makes it all the more beautiful and intriguing.

I have a good feeling Slowdive will fulfill a lot of long-building fan expectations come early May.

These hour-long mixes of Studio Ghibli music reveal a body of work that’s also deserving of recognition.

Arguably one of Ghost Box’s most accessible releases to date, as well as one of their loveliest.

Autumn Is the End sounds like the penultimate spaghetti western soundtrack.

Two decades after its original release, Havalina’s third album remains as much an unsung masterpiece as ever.

The Romanian trio will beat you down one massive riff at a time, but they’ll also build you back up, stronger than before.

Post-rock, electronic music, film scores, modern classical, and jazz figure into Grails’ graceful, sublime music.

This gorgeous space-themed EP blends metal and shoegaze to stunning effect.

The as-yet-untitled release will be recorded this February.

The Texas group’s darkly cinematic take on country-western and Americana is still as timeless and haunting as ever.

It’s easy to let yourself get swallowed up by the trio’s dark, chilly music.

Gloomy post-punk that’ll make you want to break out the black fingernail polish again.

Slowdive’s first new song in over 20 years is arguably their most aggressive yet.

Jagged industrial and EMB with a punk-like attitude and posture.

Minimalist industrial punk; the return of a shoegaze legend; dreamy inter-dimensional post-punk; and darkly lush pop from Germany.

It’s one of the best Arcade Fire songs to date — and a nice tease for their upcoming concert film.

And it picks right up where their masterpiece, 1993’s Euphoria, left off.

I’d spend hours poring over catalogs like these, trying to decide what music to buy with my meager college paychecks.

2016 sucked in many ways. But there was beautiful music to be heard in the midst of the year’s ugliness.