Category Archives: Modern Composition
Various Artists ~ Stills 03
With Stills 03, London’s Strings and Tins collective completes its Tate Britain trilogy, in which each track imagines a painting as a film still in search of a score. Artists were given carte blanche to wander around the London gallery and
Various Artists ~ Stills 03
With Stills 03, London’s Strings and Tins collective completes its Tate Britain trilogy, in which each track imagines a painting as a film still in search of a score. Artists were given carte blanche to wander around the London gallery and
Roger Goula ~ Ecosystems
Daily readers may have noticed a rarity for our site: we’ve just reviewed four modern composition albums in a row, all with a release date of June 16. Every one of them is worth purchasing. This day will likely be
Roger Goula ~ Ecosystems
Daily readers may have noticed a rarity for our site: we’ve just reviewed four modern composition albums in a row, all with a release date of June 16. Every one of them is worth purchasing. This day will likely be
Rone ~ L(oo)ping
Parisian artist Rone is no stranger to remixes and re-imaginings; 2020’s Room With a View was followed by Views of a Room, and even after that, the tracks continued to morph. Many of these same tracks now appear on L(oo)ping, which was recorded
Rone ~ L(oo)ping
Parisian artist Rone is no stranger to remixes and re-imaginings; 2020’s Room With a View was followed by Views of a Room, and even after that, the tracks continued to morph. Many of these same tracks now appear on L(oo)ping, which was recorded
Less Bells ~ The Drowned Ground
It’s rare for an artist to release three excellent albums in a row, even rarer when it’s the first three albums; but this is what Less Bells has accomplished with The Drowned Ground. Now billed as a duo, Mojave’s Julie Carpenter and Dain
Less Bells ~ The Drowned Ground
It’s rare for an artist to release three excellent albums in a row, even rarer when it’s the first three albums; but this is what Less Bells has accomplished with The Drowned Ground. Now billed as a duo, Mojave’s Julie Carpenter and Dain
Balmorhea ~ Pendant World
Balmorhea has been through many permutations since 2006, yet their core has stayed the same. Rob Lowe and Michael A. Muller have sometimes been a duo, other times a band, other times an orchestra. On Pendant World they split the difference,
Balmorhea ~ Pendant World
Balmorhea has been through many permutations since 2006, yet their core has stayed the same. Rob Lowe and Michael A. Muller have sometimes been a duo, other times a band, other times an orchestra. On Pendant World they split the difference,
Fiona Rutherford ~ Seed
Occasionally we receive submissions that are so good that you assume it will have already got a great deal of praise. only to find that barely anybody has written about it. That’s true in this case: with the notable exception
Fiona Rutherford ~ Seed
Occasionally we receive submissions that are so good that you assume it will have already got a great deal of praise. only to find that barely anybody has written about it. That’s true in this case: with the notable exception
Vargkvint ~ Månens Hav
We often realise the power of something’s influence only when we become aware of its absence. For Swedish multi-instrumentalist and singer Sofia Nystand, aka Vargkvint, that thing is the sea, to which she devoted her first album Hav. She grew
Vargkvint ~ Månens Hav
We often realise the power of something’s influence only when we become aware of its absence. For Swedish multi-instrumentalist and singer Sofia Nystand, aka Vargkvint, that thing is the sea, to which she devoted her first album Hav. She grew
Joel Lundberg ~ Odysseys and Apostrophes
This is an album for solo piano that stands out from the crowd. Joel Lundberg has toured as a bassist with Debbie Harry and Mumford & Sons and composed expansive modular synthesis ambience for the app Sleep Cycle, but it
Joel Lundberg ~ Odysseys and Apostrophes
This is an album for solo piano that stands out from the crowd. Joel Lundberg has toured as a bassist with Debbie Harry and Mumford & Sons and composed expansive modular synthesis ambience for the app Sleep Cycle, but it
a closer listen 