“Music” Archives

Fritch’s elaborate arrangements may require four or five listens to peel back all of the layers.

Winter Severity Index lives up to its name with iced-over synths, brittle guitars, crushed rhythms, and androgynous vocals.

Wintry darkwave, glorious orchestral-folk cacophonies, sleepy urban soundscapes, and vaporwave muzak.

I’m struck yet again by the primal-yet-artful beauty that fills Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard’s music.

Disasterpeace’s evocative soundtrack is reason enough to play “Hyper Light Drifter.”

I daresay they’re some of the best material The Cure has produced in quite some time.

An interview sheds some insight into the creation of the ambient classic.

Starflyer 59’s next album, titled “Slow,” will be released by Tooth & Nail Records this summer.

Leave it to a guy from Denmark to compose the perfect soundtrack for driving across the Nebraska prairie.

Lush’s first release in two decades contains nothing all that groundbreaking— but why would it need to?

Another solid, engaging release by one of the best musicians working in electronic music today.

Brainchild built on the industrial sound of Circle of Dust’s self-titled debut but added a heavier, more guitar-based aspect.

It evokes Joe Hisaishi’s elegant arrangements as much as it does classic 8-bit and 16-bit soundtracks.

The EP takes the band’s darkly cinematic sound out onto the dance floor.

This Christian rock classic has sadly been out of print for nearly two decades.

You get the sense that Deafcult’s members love making this music, and they love making it as loud and raucous as possible.

A chilled, challenging psychedelic album that will reward the patient listener.

Fans of Broadcast, Epic45, and other similarly psychedelic/pastoral music will find much to enjoy here.

“Drift Music” is lovely but “Translucence” is required listening material for fans of elegant, serene ambient music.

The best band in the whole damn land is coming back.