Ohyung Offers Vivid Heartland Impressions on ‘Iowa’
Ohyung offers spacious electronics and samples that evoke vast and open landscapes, stories of life and loss, social tensions, and oppression.
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Ólafur Arnalds Creates Past Songs for the Future
Ólafur Arnalds’ prolific recordings are matched by his eclectic range of styles and, significantly, the range of artists he works with, such as here, with Talos.
Taroug’s New LP Sports a Desolate Downtempo Beauty
Taroug creates a work of desolate beauty that slakes your thirst but never fully gives itself away, gradually revealing itself in layers of thick, rumbling sonic murk.
Carlos Ferreira and Dasom Baek Make Beautiful Noise
Carlos Ferreira and Dasom Baek’s new transatlantic collaboration, Unbalance combines musique concrète with one-take improvisation.
New German Cinema Goes in Search of Self
New German Cinema shows that pop, when rendered with elegance and depth, can be as weighty as a tome, and although pain is inevitable, it can be a form of succor.
Pick a Piper’s ‘Dandelion’ Is Rich and Rewarding
Pick a Piper’s Dandelion is a poignant reflection on love and renewal, whilst offering a reminder that there is beauty in the process of starting over.
Alice Coltrane Knew No Boundaries
Rather than rescuing a forgotten figure, Cosmic Music enlarges the frame through which Alice Coltrane is seen.
Remembering Éliane Radigue: Godmother of Drone
People say that there are four oceans, but one could reasonably argue that there’s a fifth: the one created by Éliane Radigue and her legion of cosmic drones.
‘Slow Stories’ Combines Brian Eno’s Music with Bette A.’s Ambient Fiction
Brian Eno and Bette A. are on the same aesthetic page with Slow Stories, wherein the two form a kind of high-concept ASMR experience.
Alice Coltrane: Conjurer of the Majestic
Andy Beta’s Alice Coltrane biography, Cosmic Music, is an excellent work about this forward-thinking and often misunderstood musician.
Jon Hopkins Goes Back to Nature with ‘Wilding’
Jon Hopkins and Biggi Hilmars’ soundtrack, Wilding, achieves something modest but meaningful — music that makes space for the land to breathe.
Elori Saxl and Henry Solomon Create Stunning Ambient
Elori Saxl and Henry Solomon’s Seeing Is Forgetting exquisitely blends ambient and jazz while working in the occasional pop melody.