Sassy 009 Explores How Dreams, Identity and Memory Intertwine
Sassy 009 journeys between the conscious and subconscious, explored through a dynamic blend of twitchy hyperpop, rumbling acid techno, and 1990s trip-hop.
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Talk Talk’s Lost Chapter: ‘The Colour of Spring’ at 40
With its organic instrumentation and ecological visual and lyrical sensibility, Talk Talk’s third album was a holistic concept rooted in the natural world.
Laura Ann Singh Creates a Unique, Unclassifiable Gem
Laura Ann Singh steers her reckless way through traditional jazz, torch song elegance, avant-garde experiments, and an anarchic sense of punk rebellion.
Cate Le Bon’s New LP is Filled with Lush and Eccentric Gems
As Cate Le Bon navigates difficult emotional states, it may seem like the road was a challenging one to traverse, but it has resulted in some of her best work.
Tune-Yards Help Us Get Through the Dark Days
Tune-Yards’ lyrics range from wanting us to dream better dreams to sucker punching authority. Better Dreaming’s songs are dream-like more than propagandistic.
No One Is Crushed in Water From Your Eyes’ Beautiful World
Water From Your Eyes captivate with genre-defying songs sculpted in a utopian sci-fi vein that envision a more hopeful universe.
U.S. Girls Merge the Geography of Sound and Soul
On Scratch It, U.S. Girls experiment with the sonic topography of Nashville to further explore the emotional landscape of vulnerability and materiality.
Great Area Captures the ‘Uncodable’ Nature of Human Fragility
As disorienting as they aspire to be, Great Area’s songs are both deeply affecting and oddly reassuring, capturing the ‘uncodable’ nature of human fragility.
OHYUNG Finds Pop’s Most Delirious Possibilities
With You Are Always on My Mind, OHYUNG has gathered shards of ambient murk, pop’s most delirious possibilities, and huge, 4/4 slabs of percussion
Office Culture’s Sprawling New LP “Finds Beauty in the Shrapnel”
On the occasion of Office Culture’s ambitious fourth album, Winston Cook-Wilson talks about collaboration, influences, and making dumb sounds on a synthesizer.
Chanel Beads’ Bedroom Pop Is Dynamic on Their Debut LP
Chanel Beads’ LP uncovers flashes of revelation—insights that carry bedroom pop to a new level of ambitiousness while staying faithful to its homemade appeal.
Claire Rousay Shifts from Field Recordings to Quasi-Pop Ballads
Sentiment is a deeply melancholic work suffused with a gentle beauty in the emotions Claire Rousay expresses in the lyrics and the ambient delights.