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R. Weis ~ Parrot & Paperback
Few recordings are truly one of a kind. We’d place Pawn’s Kitchen in this category, as well as One and Seven Eighth’s Modern Camping Songs. Now joining this elite group is the latest EP from R. Weis, who over the past three decades has
R. Weis ~ Parrot & Paperback
Few recordings are truly one of a kind. We’d place Pawn’s Kitchen in this category, as well as One and Seven Eighth’s Modern Camping Songs. Now joining this elite group is the latest EP from R. Weis, who over the past three decades has
Disasterpeace ~ It Follows
It doesn’t think. It doesn’t feel. It doesn’t give up. It follows. The trailer taglines are simple, reflecting an effectively streamlined concept. The soundtrack is similarly methodical, continuing to follow even after one has turned the music off. Wherever you
Disasterpeace ~ It Follows
It doesn’t think. It doesn’t feel. It doesn’t give up. It follows. The trailer taglines are simple, reflecting an effectively streamlined concept. The soundtrack is similarly methodical, continuing to follow even after one has turned the music off. Wherever you
Best Music Videos of 2015: First Quarter
If you visit Vimeo daily, you’ll eventually find most of the best music videos. But until this year, searching took a lot of time. Recently, something changed at the channel, whose music video selections have greatly increased since January. We
Best Music Videos of 2015: First Quarter
If you visit Vimeo daily, you’ll eventually find most of the best music videos. But until this year, searching took a lot of time. Recently, something changed at the channel, whose music video selections have greatly increased since January. We
Godspeed You! Black Emperor ~ ‘Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress’
If any instrumental album could be called an event, this is it. Godspeed You! Black Emperor has nothing to prove, and yet they keeping proving it. ‘Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress’ is worth the hype, although the band likely doesn’t care.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor ~ ‘Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress’
If any instrumental album could be called an event, this is it. Godspeed You! Black Emperor has nothing to prove, and yet they keeping proving it. ‘Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress’ is worth the hype, although the band likely doesn’t care.
Tomorrow We Sail ~ Saturn
Taking a page from the playbook of their Gizeh label mates FareWell Poetry (with whom they also share a couple members), Tomorrow We Sail enlists the aid of occultist, poet and historian Alexander Cummins for a single, stunning, 19-minute piece. In one
Tomorrow We Sail ~ Saturn
Taking a page from the playbook of their Gizeh label mates FareWell Poetry (with whom they also share a couple members), Tomorrow We Sail enlists the aid of occultist, poet and historian Alexander Cummins for a single, stunning, 19-minute piece. In one
M. Ostermeier ~ Still
How still do you like your stillness to be? As still as “4’33”, as measured as glacial ambience, or inwardly still but outwardly in motion? On his first album since 2011, M. Ostermeier adopts the latter tactic. As the world begins to
M. Ostermeier ~ Still
How still do you like your stillness to be? As still as “4’33”, as measured as glacial ambience, or inwardly still but outwardly in motion? On his first album since 2011, M. Ostermeier adopts the latter tactic. As the world begins to
Rutger Zuydervelt ~ Sneeuwstorm
Can a saxophone sound like snow (sneeuw)? In the hands of Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek), the answer is yes. On this album, Otto Kokke (soprano saxophone) and Colin Webster (tenor saxophone) find their contributions rumpled, looped, and otherwise manipulated in the service
Rutger Zuydervelt ~ Sneeuwstorm
Can a saxophone sound like snow (sneeuw)? In the hands of Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek), the answer is yes. On this album, Otto Kokke (soprano saxophone) and Colin Webster (tenor saxophone) find their contributions rumpled, looped, and otherwise manipulated in the service
Black Mental vs. Left Hand Path ~ Moon Disk
Berlin’s Schwarzarbeit label launched this January with a pair of digital EPs from Black Mental vs. Left Hand Path, two like-minded artists alternating tracks on each release. Now the label and artists have stepped up with their first physical offering, Moon
Black Mental vs. Left Hand Path ~ Moon Disk
Berlin’s Schwarzarbeit label launched this January with a pair of digital EPs from Black Mental vs. Left Hand Path, two like-minded artists alternating tracks on each release. Now the label and artists have stepped up with their first physical offering, Moon
