“Music” Archives

The Murder of Crows conjures up The Dirty Three with their haunting, violin-laden atmospherics.

Can you really call yourself a music lover if you’re not supporting the artists responsible for the music you have?

It’s difficult for me to listen to these songs and not imagine that I’m listening to music culled, in some fashion, directly from the duo’s long-lost childhood memories.

Northern Valentine’s latest conjures up massive, ominous soundscapes that beckon to be explored by patient listeners.

Mark Hollis’ sunglasses have more stage presence than he does.

RIYL Hammock’s guitar-based ambience, Robin Guthrie’s solo recordings, and Stars of the Lid.

Ghost Box et al. seem fixated on exploring a future envisioned by the past, a future that will never be.

A solid debut, as well as one of the best and most gripping shoegazer releases I’ve heard in months.

A fascinating paradox has been at work in the heart of lovesliescrushing’s music for two decades now.

Live-tweeting my way through Starflyer 59’s second album.

Fifteen songs (plus ten honorable mentions) that stood out from the rest in 2011.

As rough and shambling, and ultimately as haunting, as any of his album’s material.