Fall Music Preview 2024 ~ Modern Composition
Modern composition is looking incredibly strong this fall, as evidenced by the fact that half of our Ten Fall Albums to Check Out Now! came from this category. One of these albums was literally buried for three years; another one
Fall Music Preview 2024 ~ Modern Composition
Modern composition is looking incredibly strong this fall, as evidenced by the fact that half of our Ten Fall Albums to Check Out Now! came from this category. One of these albums was literally buried for three years; another one
Fall Music Preview 2024 ~ Experimental
The theme of David Stubbs’ book Fear of Music: Why People Get Rothko But Don’t Get Stockhausen is less an explanation than an observation: the general public is more willing to embrace experimentation in modern art than in modern music. We
Fall Music Preview 2024 ~ Experimental
The theme of David Stubbs’ book Fear of Music: Why People Get Rothko But Don’t Get Stockhausen is less an explanation than an observation: the general public is more willing to embrace experimentation in modern art than in modern music. We
Fall Music Preview 2024 ~ Electronic
The beats are back! It’s time to move and groove with a full slate of electronic releases, designed to motivate and energize. This tempo-based genre ranges from the languid to the extreme, with everything between. This season we see further
Fall Music Preview 2024 ~ Electronic
The beats are back! It’s time to move and groove with a full slate of electronic releases, designed to motivate and energize. This tempo-based genre ranges from the languid to the extreme, with everything between. This season we see further
Fall Music Preview 2024 ~ Drone
Descending from the heights of yesterday’s massive ambient preview, we come to a smaller but no less powerful calendar of drone. This season’s schedule includes a double album from an artist whose 2022 record was our Album of the Year
Fall Music Preview 2024 ~ Drone
Descending from the heights of yesterday’s massive ambient preview, we come to a smaller but no less powerful calendar of drone. This season’s schedule includes a double album from an artist whose 2022 record was our Album of the Year
Fall Music Preview 2024 ~ Ambient
Mark your calendars: next Friday is not only the first big release date of fall, but it may end up being the biggest release date of the season. We are currently tracking nearly 100 instrumental and experimental EPs and albums
Fall Music Preview 2024 ~ Ambient
Mark your calendars: next Friday is not only the first big release date of fall, but it may end up being the biggest release date of the season. We are currently tracking nearly 100 instrumental and experimental EPs and albums
Michael Scott Dawson ~ The Tinnitus Chorus
The Tinnitus Chorus is the second tinnitus-themed album we’ve reviewed this year, following Lola de la Mata’s Oceans on Azimuth. de la Mata had been advised to abandon her musical career. In Michael Scott Dawson‘s case, “The clicks, ringing tones, and hiss
Michael Scott Dawson ~ The Tinnitus Chorus
The Tinnitus Chorus is the second tinnitus-themed album we’ve reviewed this year, following Lola de la Mata’s Oceans on Azimuth. de la Mata had been advised to abandon her musical career. In Michael Scott Dawson‘s case, “The clicks, ringing tones, and hiss
Max Richter ~ In a Landscape
Max Richter would not mind at all if you curled up with a good book while listening to his music. His new album is intended to be a bookend to The Blue Notebooks, one of the artist’s earliest and best loved
Max Richter ~ In a Landscape
Max Richter would not mind at all if you curled up with a good book while listening to his music. His new album is intended to be a bookend to The Blue Notebooks, one of the artist’s earliest and best loved
Laurence Pike ~ The Undreamt-of Centre
While many great requiems have been written over the years, their form has remained staid. How might one inject new life into an old musical form about death? Can a modern requiem be both unique and reverent? After losing his
Laurence Pike ~ The Undreamt-of Centre
While many great requiems have been written over the years, their form has remained staid. How might one inject new life into an old musical form about death? Can a modern requiem be both unique and reverent? After losing his
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