“Music” Archives

“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.

Soulful hip-hop, lo-fi psychedelia, ambient dub, soaring electronic pop, abstract electronica, and otherworldly neo-folk.

The first Ester Drang song in nearly a decade will be released in February 2016.

Ominous ambience, funky hip-hop, pan-global instrumentals, crushing electronica, elegant post-punk, and forlorn post-rock.

Sufjan reminds us to acknowledge the silly and the sublime during the Christmas season.

I’m already looking ahead to 2016’s musical offerings — and I like what I see.

Maybe someday, something will come along that matches Rdio’s simplicity and elegance, but I’m not holding my breath.

The mammoth 5-disc set features all of the usual suspects, plus many lesser known shoegaze acts.

Arguably my favorite worship album of all time.