Claire Rousay Leans Into a Gentler, More Ambient Sound on ‘A Softer Focus’
Combining field recordings with quiet, droning musical touches, A Softer Focus from experimentalist Claire Rousay may be her strongest work yet.
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Eli Winter Comes Into His Own With ‘Unbecoming’
Experimental folk guitarist Eli Winter finds new directions to explore on Unbecoming, including expanding into ensemble work.
ONO Confronts American Racial Oppression with the Incendiary ‘Red Summer’
Decades after their initial formation, legendary experimentalists ONO have made an album that's topical, vital, uncomfortable, and cathartic. Red Summer is an essential documentation of the ugliness and oppression of the United States.
Mute Duo Dazzle with the Ambient, Country-Tinged ‘Lapse in Passage’
Mute Duo's second full-length album, Lapse in Passage, is dark, multilayered, and uncommonly beautiful. It's like David Lynch baked in the Texas heat. It's the soundtrack to a Cormac McCarthy-inspired fever dream.
Dreams, Diaries, and Getting Down: Individualizing the Past Through Youth and Nostalgia
Despite its limitations, television can help viewers make sense of and shape both the world and the struggle for social change.