“Music” Archives

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.

“Gaelynn Lea had the most arresting voice and overall sound I heard in this competition.”

Lush sounds like they haven’t aged a day, much less two decades.

The five-piece creates a sound that’s as delicate and shiny/shimmery as it is raucous and explosive.

Despite rarely having been in the same room together, the group will release a full-length album this June.

If you like folksy, twangy Americana, you’ll want to preorder a copy.

Circle of Dust’s debut will be reissued on March 4; a new Circle of Dust album will be released in December2016.

A fantastic point of entry into the career of one of ambient music’s most distinctive and prolific voices.

Irezumi crafts ambient soundscapes with such elegance that they never feel insufferable or too consumed by their own gloom.

I’m almost forty but the part of me that’s still an awkward, music-obsessed sixteen-year-old is absolutely loving this.

These songs may not have been in my top picks but they still deserve notice in their own right.

Sleepy trip-hop, atmospheric indie-electronic, religious experimental folk, harrowing post-punk/EBM, mournful folk & experimental electronic rock.

Incendiary hip-hop, soaring shoegaze, aggressive indie-rock, poignant synth-wave, thought-provoking emo & atmospheric rock.