“Music” Archives

Acoustic folk, emo done right, soulful electronic pop, twee, ’80s synth ballads, hip-hop, and more.

Swirling shoegaze, Christian psych-rock, dark ambient and industrial, ’80s-style disco pop, and more.

It’s a landmark album, but more importantly, it’s a beautiful album, and time has done nothing to change that.

It seems like forever ago that I first wrote about Native Lights, a Tulsa-based “super-group” featuring members of Ester Drang and Unwed Sailor.

None of these songs are actually on my year-end list, but they easily could’ve been.

Time seems to stand still whenever Low’s debut album is playing; listening to it is as much an act of meditation as anything else.

It’s always a pleasant surprise when long-lost bands re-emerge from obscurity with new music. Here are two examples.

Featuring three discs’ worth of new and unreleased material, plus a disc of Slowdive covers by Echodrone, Seasurfer, Resplandor, and more.

Hypnosis is difficult material that takes the listener on a mental journey through surreal and haunting places.

For all of their engineering, programming, and whatnot, it’s to Silver’s credit that these songs never seem sterile or artificial.

Not all of the remixers remain faithful to Makeup and Vanity Set’s sonic aesthetic, and thankfully so.

The sort of meandering instrumental music that makes you yearn for autumn to paint the leaves and bring a sharp edge to the air.

Perturbator’s music can be deeper and more affecting than its “shocking” artwork and cyberpunk themes initially suggest.

Another brilliantly subtle release from one of my favorite ambient musicians in recent years.

It’s amazing what you can do with some garbage, a laptop, an arduino or two, some contact microphones… and some Legos.

Live concert footage from New York’s lWlVl Festival.

Listen to the seeds of what groups like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Gang Gang Dance, and HTRK would be doing two decades later.