Tuesday, October 18 2011
Apparat: The Devil’s Walk
The German electronic musician and erstwhile member of Moderat returns with a warmer, softer edge than contemporaries like James Blake.
Tuesday, April 12 2011
Panda Bear: Tomboy
One-fourth of the Animal Collective follows up his miraculous Person Pitch with a collection of mood pieces that suppresses his effusions into a consistent shade of gray.
Wednesday, December 1 2010
Top Ten Tracks for Your Holiday Playlist
Weary of Bing Crosby singing “White Christmas” for the 567th time? Here's an alternate selection of songs to consider spinning during the holiday season.
Wednesday, November 24 2010
Various Artists: F*>k Dance Let’s Art; Sounds from a New American Underground
!K7 Records tries to make sense of chillwave, witch house, Animal Collective, and other neo-electronic non-dance artists.
Sunday, October 17 2010
Glasser: Ring
Glasser’s debut album, Ring, is filled with the kind of indie-pop pedigree that makes music PR people froth at the mouth. Fortunately, the album is hardly a collection of popular indie derivatives.
Monday, August 23 2010
Chilled to Spill: How The Oil Spill Ruined Chillwave’s Summer Vacation
Empty nostalgia or a realignment of values, chillwave's alchemical waste-sounds may be on the cusp of a deadbeat summer.
Thursday, August 12 2010
Psych-Horror Flick as Music Video, or Vice Versa: Animal Collective’s ‘Oddsac’
Musically and visually, Animal Collective's new "visual album" 'Oddsac' is unmistakably in the group's wheelhouse: unapologetically and uncompromisingly weird, possessed of a singular vision, and all the more compelling for it.
Thursday, February 18 2010
Taken by Trees + Will Stratton: 17.Feb.2010 - Brooklyn
Words and Pictures by Thomas Hauner
Wednesday, February 3 2010
Pitchfork: The Taste Maker
Judging by the "Top Ten" list of hundreds of critics in Village Voice's Pazz and Jop Poll, Pitchfork is either really good, or critics are becoming really lazy.
