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Orions Belte Travels '600m Per Minute' (EP stream) (premiere)
Norway's Orions Belte deliver a wide-ranging but cohesive collection of instrumentals on 600m Per Minute. "You pick up inspirations from words you read, cities you go to, a painting hanging in a corner at an exhibition," says guitarist Øyvind Blomstrøm.
14 May 2020
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First Installment in El Ten Eleven Trilogy Good But Too Clinical
Tautology I's six songs lack the musical sorcery of post-rockers usually mentioned in the same breath as El Ten Eleven.
07 May 2020
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Chaos Chaos Get Atmospheric and Emotional on "Capital T" (premiere)
Sister duo Chaos Chaos, formerly of Smoosh, deliver their latest single, "Capital T". "Dogs hate it, but hopefully people will love it."
22 Apr 2020
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New Brain Trajectory: An Interview With Lee Ranaldo and Raül Refree
Two guitarists, Lee Ranaldo and Raül Refree make an album largely absent of guitar playing and enter into a bold new phase of their careers. "We want to take this wherever we can and be free of genre restraints," says Lee Ranaldo.
03 Apr 2020
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Iceland Post-Rockers VAR Get Back to Basics With "Run" (premiere)
Post-rock band VAR share their latest single, "Run". It's dynamic, emotional, and filled an exuberance that recalls We Were Promised Jet Packs and Frightened Rabbit.
30 Mar 2020
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Rustin Man's 'Clockdust' Is Woozy Psych-Folk of Arresting and Fathomless Beauty
Arriving less than a year after Drift Code, Rustin Man consolidates a rich vein of form with the sepia-toned Clockdust, an autumnal record rendered generous and exquisite by each song's emotional weight.
30 Mar 2020
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Magnetic Ghost's 'Pixels' Is Andy Larson's Most Majestic and Profound Music
Magnetic Ghost's Pixels is absolutely masterful stuff from a sound-sculptor sitting at the intersection of post-rock, post-classical, and strains of ambient music.
13 Mar 2020
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Yann Tiersen's 'Portrait' Is a Fresh Interpretation of Past Glories
Amelie composer Yann Tiersen teams up with a coterie of collaborators on Portrait to revisit works from a 25-year career, with poignant and reinvigorating results.
10 Mar 2020
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Lee Ranaldo and Raül Refree Create an Eerily Experimental Sound with 'Names of North End Women'
The fruitful collaboration between these two unique musicians continues on an album that is dark but surprisingly melodic.
21 Feb 2020
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Rebecca Foon Gets Honest and Raw with the Gorgeous 'Waxing Moon'
Canadian cellist and activist Rebecca Foon channels her emotions into music that honors a planet in peril on Waxing Moon.
21 Feb 2020
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Parachute For Gordo's New Post-Rock LP Is Driven By Percussion, Not Guitars
Parachute For Gordo's new LP, Best Understood By Children and Animals, diverges from the band's art-punk past. The result is an enthralling, throbbing, and incredibly percussion-driven document.
14 Feb 2020
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Unconditional Arms Fuse Post-Punk and Post-Rock on "You're Just As Desperate" (premiere)
Featuring members of Wavves and the American Scene, Oakland's Unconditional Arms deliver an inspired instrumental that bodes well for a bright musical future.
13 Feb 2020
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Frayle Deliver Anthems for the Persecuted Via '1692' (album stream) (premiere)
Living dark may be the best revenge as Cleveland's Frayle suggest on their debut LP. Fans of gothic and black metal will rejoice as will those who love Portishead and Cocteau Twins.
11 Feb 2020
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Caspian's Wall-of-Sound Post-Rock Is Handwritten Large with 'On Circles'
Caspian's On Circles follows in the footsteps of 2015's beatific Dust and Disquiet. It's a big album with its details writ small.
30 Jan 2020
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Stereolab Reissue Their Classics: 'Emperor Tomato Ketchup'
Now is the perfect time to reacquaint -- or acquaint -- yourself with Stereolab's landmark 1996 album, Emperor Tomato Ketchup.
13 Nov 2019
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Infinite Color & Sound Are Free Spirits in New York
Infinite Color & Sound showcased their flourishing project at PublicArts ahead of sets at Sea.Hear.Now as part of a brief East Coast run. Photos and video of the whole show inside.
17 Oct 2019
Music
Intense & Vulnerable: An Interview with Infinite Color & Sound
Guitarist Mike McCready of Pearl Jam and visual artist Kate Neckel chat about their audio/visual collaboration, Infinite Color & Sound.
04 Oct 2019
Music
Fly Pan AM Get the Classic Krautrock Vibe Right on 'C’est ça'
Canadian experimental rock band, Fly Pan AM return after a 15-year absence, stressing the extremes of their sound on C'est ça.
30 Sep 2019
Music
M83's Ambitious But Inert 'Digital Shades Vol. 2' Underwhelms
M83's follow-up to 2007's ambient collection Digital Shades Vol. 1 lacks the ingenuity of his pioneering predecessors' output and the thrill-ride wonder of the genres he set out to salute.
19 Sep 2019
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NOUS Takes Listeners on Majestic Post-Rock Journey With "Nighten Gale" (premiere)
Composer Christopher Bono returns with cast of impossibly talented players, including Laurie Anderson and Swans alumni, for the second improvisational NOUS album. Hear the new track "Nighten Gale".
06 Sep 2019
Music
"I Like to Feel There Are No Boundaries": An Interview With Arcade Fire's Richard Reed Parry
Arcade Fire's Richard Reed Parry discusses his latest album, Quiet River of Dust Vol. 2, and the ties that a musical life creates.
Jedd Beaudoin
12 Aug 2019
Music
The Tea Club's 'If/When' Is a Brilliant Mixture of Folk and Progressive Rock
If/When is stunning, proving yet again why the Tea Club should be celebrated by admirers of any—if not all—of their sundry genre classifications.
Jordan Blum
08 Aug 2019
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Buster Keaton on a Laptop: Haiku Salut Bring 'The General' Into the 21st Century
British instrumental trio Haiku Salut create a new soundtrack for Buster Keaton's classic 1926 film The General with brilliant and unconventional results.
02 Aug 2019
Music
Ghosts of Glaciers Deliver a Powerful, Intelligent Instrumental with "Epigenesis" (premiere)
Colorado trio Ghosts of Glaciers combine the primitive pounding of thrash metal with the intellectual nuances of progressive rock on a new track, culled from the upcoming album, The Greatest Burden.
31 Jul 2019
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Post-Rock's Oh Hiroshima Provide Emotional Release With 'Oscillation' (album stream) (premiere)
Sweden post-rockers Oh Hiroshima return with their first album in four years. Though some of the sounds are familiar, the band escape cliches and emerge with a deeply satisfying LP. Hear it in full ahead of tomorrow's release.
Jedd Beaudoin
25 Jul 2019
Music
Jambinai's 'ONDA' Reminds That Korean Music Is Diasporic and Ever-Evolving
Jambinai's ONDA finds cross-cultural influences from traditional Korean music, post-rock, and atmospheric metal, but their ethos is certainly more complex than a fusion or hybrid project.
19 Jun 2019
Music
Stereolab's Recent Re-Isssues Are Re-Imagined, and Re-Contextualized to Stunning Effect
Reissues of two early albums are a startling reminder of Stereolab's power and influence. Their music not only re-invents itself, but it refreshes and renews its listeners as well.
18 Jun 2019
Music
The 'Heavy Age' Is Here: An Interview with Unwed Sailor
Unwed Sailor's Johnathon Ford discusses the history and evolution of his beloved band. "I've always focused more on a verse-chorus-bridge kind of structure. To my brain, it's like a New Order song without vocals."
Jedd Beaudoin
13 Jun 2019
Music
The Pirate Ship Quintet Reconcile the Gloom and Hope of Post-Rock
On Emitter, UK instrumental ensemble the Pirate Ship Quintet dive deeper into the textures and sensibilities that define their beautifully melancholy sound.
04 Jun 2019
Music
Earth Make Their Purest Sonic Statement with 'Full Upon Her Burning Lips'
Dylan Carlson and Adrienne Davies strip all ornamentation away from Earth's sound on their ninth studio album, Full Upon Her Burning Lips, the band's purest sonic statement to date.
04 Jun 2019
Music
Stubbleman Presents a Post-Rock Road Trip with 'Mountains and Plains'
Veteran electronic artist Stubbleman uses piano, bass, and synths to document America on Mountains and Plains. It's an exceptionally well-realized album.
22 May 2019
Music
Efrim Manuel Menuck and Kevin Doria Blend Electronic Music and Post-Rock on 'SING SINCK SING'
With SING SINCK SING, Efrim Manuel Menuck and Kevin Doria arrive with a work that thrives through its melancholic tone, but allows a ray of hope to shine through.
16 May 2019
Music
Deerhunter's Transcendent Trajectory
Deerhunter's Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? and Cryptograms are antithetical twins -- shattered mirror images, whose fragments echo each other and reflect Deerhunter's beginnings of and return to inspired experimentation.
10 May 2019
Music
Pushing Pop to Extremes: An Interview with These New Puritans
From a 35-piece orchestra to a lean, five-person ensemble, These New Puritans are always changing. That continues with the new album, Inside the Rose, says George Barnett, "The pop bits are more pop and the extreme bits are more extreme."
09 May 2019
Music
Enablers Serve Up Spoken Word Post-Punk Pleasure With "Bill, In Consideration" (premiere)
Veteran post-punk group Enablers are releasing their sixth album on 14 June amid the clanging clatter of the aggressive new track, "Bill, In Consideration".
07 May 2019
Music
Esben and the Witch's 'Nowhere' Is a Mesmerizing Musical Experience
Much as their namesake, Esben and the Witch evoke a stunning musical versatility and lyrical fervor. Nowhere is a mesmerizing musical experience enshrining the interplay between the primal and the pristine.
06 May 2019
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