“Music” Archives

Expertly crafted drones that are just as ominous and foreboding as they are beautiful and entrancing.

The year brought us Japanese blackgaze, introspective balladry, post-punk elegance, Swedish alt-rock, eclectic hardcore, heartfelt indie-folk, and much more.

Dreamy piano-led ambience that evokes winter wonderlands galore.

The band’s latest album trades in elegantly moody post-punk and darkwave.

The Atlanta-based duo take the sounds of ’90s dream pop and shoegaze and make them their own.

The multi-instrumentalist rejoined the band in 2022 as a touring member.

A lovely slice of melancholy Russian indie rock.

Autechre meets acoustic guitar.

The synth-pop legends deliver a banger from 2005’s Playing the Angel.

The Parisian composer and producer excels at crafting dark ambient music that eschews the usual tropes and clichés.

A claustrophobic ambient drone piece that captures the powerlessness many of us feel today.

A brooding, contemplative soundscape that evokes the kosmische musik maestro.

For a genre that prides itself on authenticity, country music seems strangely primed for fake artists.

Even after 30+ years, this epic excursion remains one of the ambient genre’s most sublime moments.

The Moscow-based post-punk/shoegaze outfit exits the stage in fine style with their final album.

Catching up with a recent banger from the Sacramento-based “partygothers.”

The Quebec post-punk outfit is also launching a Kickstarter campaign for collectors’ editions of two of their most important albums.

The Philadelphia dreampoppers’ latest single makes me want to hear their upcoming album that much sooner.

Introspective and majestic dark ambience from Brian Hilyard.

It’s never too early to get into the Christmas spirit with synth-pop maestro Ronnie Martin.