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Bill Ryder-Jones Offers a Piano-Based Take on 2018 Album with ‘Yawny Yawn’

Richard Driver / 1 August 2019

New, minimalistic takes from his successful 2018 album Yawn bring you far closer to Bill Ryder-Jones' songwriting and performance. Yawny Yawn re-creates a dynamic sonic landscape with a unique instrumental consistency.

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Yann Tiersen Releases “Erc’h”, His Latest Stunning Video (premiere)

Sarah Zupko Kondeusz / 1 May 2019

French composer Yann Tiersen's latest album ALL connects the natural world with music, and his latest visualizer for "Erc'h" is as gorgeous as the music is.

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Yann Tiersen and the Project of a Lifetime

John Garratt / 1 April 2019

For an album that is so geographically and linguistically focused, Yann Tiersen's ALL is strangely beautiful when robbed of all its context.

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Penguin Cafe: The Imperfect Sea

Christopher Laird / 11 May 2017

The Imperfect Sea is the third release of Penguin Café, and it sees the band crawling from out of the shadow of its namesake, Penguin Café Orchestra.

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Various Artists: Microcosm: Visionary Music of Continental Europe, 1970-1986

Christopher Laird / 12 December 2016

Light in the Attic's lovingly curated collection is an excellent introduction to such a massive influence on modern music.

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Low: The Exit Papers

Christopher Laird / 28 September 2016

In 2000, in between the career-defining albums Secret Name and The Things We Lost in the Fire, Low created the EP The Exit Papers, a stab at making film music.

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Jóhann Jóhannsson: Orphee

Christopher Laird / 22 September 2016

Orphée is the first album by Jóhann Jóhannsson not associated with a film since 2009’s Fordlandia, and from the opening track, it shows itself as a work to be heard on its own terms.

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Alex Cameron: Jumping the Shark

Christopher Laird / 21 September 2016

Alex Cameron’s album, Jumping the Shark, is unnerving. Basically, you’re stuck in a David Lynch fever dream.

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Kangding Ray: Cory Arcane

Alex Franquelli / 30 November 2015

Forget the minimal techno you have known so far, because Kangding Ray has managed to manipulate the very essence of the genre to combine the raw (the glitch) with the refined (the melody).

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Bill Ryder-Jones Offers a Piano-Based Take on 2018 Album with ‘Yawny Yawn’

Yann Tiersen Releases “Erc’h”, His Latest Stunning Video (premiere)

Yann Tiersen and the Project of a Lifetime

Penguin Cafe: The Imperfect Sea

Various Artists: Microcosm: Visionary Music of Continental Europe, 1970-1986

Low: The Exit Papers

Jóhann Jóhannsson: Orphee

Alex Cameron: Jumping the Shark

Kangding Ray: Cory Arcane

The Field: Cupid’s Head

Thomas Brinkmann & Oren Ambarchi: The Mortimer Trap

Arthur Oskan: A Little More Than Everything

Spiritual Sonic Expression: An Interview with Surya Botofasina

Greil Marcus Explains Why Creativity Is Better Left Unexplained

How Bob Dylan Reinvented the Blues Highway for Contemporary America

Blood Incantation Play the Music of the Spheres on New LP

Alanis Morissette and the Division and Commodification of Women in 1990s Rock (excerpt)

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