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Pan American’s ‘The Patience Fader’ Is Mesmerizing

Pan American’s ‘The Patience Fader’ Is Mesmerizing

Pan American’s The Patience Fader mesmerizes with icy takes on pedal steel and glassy guitar, where notes flood and flicker deep into the horizon.

Loscil’s ‘Clara’ Is a Beguiling Work

Loscil’s ‘Clara’ Is a Beguiling Work

Loscil’s Clara is a beguiling work that toys with space between light and shadow while touching on themes of space and gravity as all-encompassing and inspiring as the universe itself.

Less Bells Offer Poignant Post-Classical Ruminations on ‘Mourning Jewelry’

Less Bells Offer Poignant Post-Classical Ruminations on ‘Mourning Jewelry’

Less Bells' Mourning Jewelry is not light music in the sense of weight, but it might be light in the sense of brightness or contrast. It's an engaging little series of tropes about loss and processes of grieving.

Tim Hecker Explores the Negative Space with ‘Konoyo’

Tim Hecker Explores the Negative Space with ‘Konoyo’

While carrying over many of the practices of his previous record, Tim Hecker shifts his perspective away from the dreamscapes of Love Streams and explores a darker spiritual realm on Konoyo.

Less Bells Explore the Mystique of Joshua Tree on ‘Solifuge’

Less Bells Explore the Mystique of Joshua Tree on ‘Solifuge’

Multi-instrumentalist Julie Carpenter a.k.a Less Bells unveils her new project with Solifuge, a record of controlled experimentalism, serene atmospherics and great depth.

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