Nine Albums In, Russian Circles Are “Opening the Marriage”
PopMatters speaks with Russian Circles guitarist Mike Sullivan about what has kept the Chicago post-metal outfit going for two decades and nearly double-digit albums.
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Emma Ruth Rundle Releases a Brilliant Career-Defining Set
This is the album Emma Ruth Rundle has long wanted and been destined to make. These Killing Times marks the actualization of a signature artist.
The Fierce and the Dead Put a Unique Spin on Rock
The Fierce and the Dead have traditionally pivoted between stoner and psychedelic hooks, suffused with sultry grooves undulating beneath the murky words.
Between the Grooves of Radiohead’s ‘Kid A’
After a quarter of the century has passed, Radiohead’s Kid A still stands as one of the 2000s era-defining artistic statements. Ten writers reflect on the songs.
The Mall World and Backrooms of Music
At first, the shock of recognition of Mall World and Backrooms music is slightly sickening, yet ultimately Proustian-ly satisfying in its uncanny familiarity.
The Street Photography Nature of Solo Improvisational Music
Bill MacKay, Douglas McCombs, and Tashi Dorji’s improvisational music mirrors Garry Winogrand’s street photography.
Unwed Sailor Float on Ambient, Post-Rock Bliss
Unwed Sailor mine a sense of adventure from their relatively uncomplicated sound. It’s music in which one can get beautifully, blissfully lost.
A Place to Bury Strangers Discuss Their Resurrected Songs
A Place to Bury Strangers resurrect lost obscurities for a record that paints a map of their past and future simultaneously. Oliver Ackerman describes the process.
Exit Dream Make a Grandiose Return with “Out Your Skin”
Exit Dream’s Out Your Skin” combines post-rock with hardcore roots and pop songwriting to create a cinematic soundscape.
Post-Rock Icons Tortoise Return with Transportive LP
Tortoise’s Touch is a cinematic record that is profoundly human and entirely spectral. It’s a world unto itself, filled with beautiful landmarks and perplexing questions.
Modern Nature’s ‘The Heat Warps’ Is Superb and Compelling
Modern Nature’s new LP, The Heat Warps, is fabulously compelling and questioning, and the questions it asks are not the ones you expect to hear on a pop album.
Scree Expand Their Sonic Palette on Dazzling New LP
Brooklyn trio Scree imbue their sound with mystery and a wide array of stylistic shifts, but there’s deep and comforting warmth to the music they make.