Jenny Hval Takes a Reflective Vantage Point Towards Her Music on 'The Long Sleep'
On The Long Sleep, Jenny Hval takes a minimalistic turn on her dreamlike, elusive form of art pop.
13 Jun 2018
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"Far Flung" Is Aptly-Titled Tune From Future Release By spoony bard (premiere)
When David Nord tired of jazz, he turned to the music he heard around him. All of it. The result? spoony bard's deeply singular approach.
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31 May 2018
Yonatan Gat's 'Universalists' Is a Visionary New Album for Rock Music
The former Monotonix guitarist Yonatan Gat presents a bold new idea for what to do with rock: treat your own band noise like other people's samples.
23 May 2018
Avant Hip-hop Outfit the Young Mothers Deliver "Attica Black" (premiere)
Ex-White Denim, Free Radicals, Shape of Broad Minds members team of up as the Young Mothers for an unbridled track from new LP, Morose.
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21 May 2018
Paul Schütze's 'The Sky Torn Apart' Serves As a Powerful Call for Preventative Climate Change Action
Paul Schütze's The Sky Torn Apart is a bold, expansive piece of isolationist environmental music.
16 May 2018
Daniel Blumberg's 'Minus' Is a Muddled, Confused Misstep
The first solo album from the former member of Yuck and Hebronix strives to marry pop and art to express deeper internal turmoil, but the end result is an album lacking in strong emotional connection.
07 May 2018
Father Murphy Call It Quits Via a Requiem in 'Rising'
The Italian cult duo's final album is part rock record and part religious ceremony, built on natural texture and stark mysticism.
17 Apr 2018
CVX's 'Zibaldone III' Puts Intellectuals Together with Jazzy, Electronic Music
Rupert Clervaux explores the perilous times in which we live through the words of various thinkers and critics over a mix of electro-jazz and leftfield techno.
23 Mar 2018
Chicago Jazz Fusion Purveyors Marbin Preview New Album With "Swamp House" (premiere)
Marbin pauses its never ending touring schedule long enough to record new album, Israeli Jazz.
15 Mar 2018
Relisten Without Prejudice to Yoko Ono's 'Plastic Ono Band'
Americans in the '70s would not accommodate a female Japanese performer of experimental music that is designed to provoke. Have we grown since then?
05 Feb 2018
John Surman's 'Invisible Threads' Is Music for Quiet Spaces
John Surman's trio create a space where a listener can drift along without getting tired. There's an energy to the playing that lifts one into a pleasant state and a good-humor to the enterprise as a whole.
24 Jan 2018
The Music of Earle Brown Unwrapped and Unraveled
When a composer admits that one of his more "famous" pieces has no identifiable content, you know you're in for an uphill climb whether you choose to study their works, perform them, or just listen to them.
23 Jan 2018
The Residents Celebrate the Death of Pop with 'Third Reich 'n Roll'
An avant-garde classic or a sneering joke? Third Reich 'n Roll may be over 40 years old, but it still sounds like it's been beamed down from the future.
19 Jan 2018
The Best Avant-Garde and Experimental Music of 2017
The personal is political, the local is global, and privacy is passé. Our musical experimenters are mere soldiers, fighting the good fight in the name of a brighter and weirder tomorrow.
20 Dec 2017
Björk: Utopia
On her latest album, Björk leaves heartbreak behind and shares a dazzling world of love and perfection.
01 Dec 2017
Sam Bardfeld: The Great Enthusiasms
Violin, piano, and drums — playing jazz that arises from folk, rock, and roots traditions, but the "weird" avant-garde ones. Still, pointedly, Sam Bardfeld's music sings and moves with joy.
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