Reviews of Music, Movies, Anime & More

The Sufjan Stevens-produced album offers some welcome solace for these chaotic and troubling times.

An expansive and unpredictable post-rock album that renews my faith in the genre.

Soulwhirlingsomewhere’s Michael Plaster returns with a new album filled with lush, evocative ambience and atmospherics.

This unlikely compilation reveals some cavernous new depths to The Cure’s already massive influence.

The Detroit duo’s unassuming blend of dream pop and slowcore makes for an absolutely haunting and beguiling listen.

The goth icons’ long-awaited fourteenth album is their best in decades, and a heartfelt rumination on death, loss, and mortality.

James Clements exchanges his trademark drum n’ bass for atmospheric piano-based instrumentals, with sublime results.

The exiled Russian duo’s stylish-yet-forlorn music sits at the nexus of dream pop, trip-hop, downtempo, and goth.

Starflyer 59’s seventeenth(!) album contains throwbacks to their earliest releases, which are sure to please longtime fans.

The latest from the former Cocteau Twins guitarist is another welcome batch of his trademark dream pop.

Michael Cottone delivers one of his finest albums to date, a subdued masterpiece of ambient/acoustic soundscapes.

Daygraves expands his blackgaze sound with a battery of intriguing sounds and styles.

A fascinating new wave curio from an era of Christian music that far too few know anything about.

The new solo project from Writ on Water’s frontman is an abundance of darkly atmospheric dream pop and post-punk.

Unsettling electronic music that explores the unrealized utopianism of post-WW2 British architecture and urban planning.

The quintet return with yet another album of raucous, bracing, and poignant indie-rock.

Inspired by classic/retro RPGs, Simon Heath’s dungeon synth is no less evocative than his work in Atrium Carceri and Sabled Sun.

Two icons in the ambient genre pay tribute to Andrei Tarkovsky’s philosophical 1979 sci-fi film.

The Russian composer’s slowly unfurling drones and sonic drift evoke a sense of mystery and wonder.

Alistair Rennie’s latest album of dark ambience avoids the genre’s clichés thanks to its diverse sonic shades and forlorn musicality.