“Music” Archives

Every single note, melody, and beat on So This Is Goodbye has been streamlined and polished as much as possible.

The self-described “world’s only indie stadium band” deliver an album that’s as bombastic as it is sincere.

I’ve heard most of the songs on here before, countless times. But I had never heard them like this, in such a sublime context.

Richter’s music is perfectly suited to the themes of loss, nostalgia, and alienation that permeate Haruki Murakami’s work.

There’s a rawness and youthful recklessness that never fails to render their music beguiling, even at its loudest and most abrasive.

A tribute to an old computer, the five long tracks that make up this disc are elegiac and gorgeous.

Rough around the edges but still full of lovely textures in which to lose yourself.

Annelle’s songs encapsulate entire tiny little worlds of sound, conjuring up dim images of broken down places and darkened rooms pregnant with memory and longing.

The album’s awkward-yet-earned shortcomings, much like its audio imperfections, only make it more affecting.

The sounds of the track take me back to all of those sweaty, exhausting nights spent in the Cornerstone Dance Tent.