ACL 2013: Top Ten Drone

In a classroom, a drone is a nuisance, but in music, it’s an attraction.  These artists know that drone is more than sustained sound; it’s texture, movement and tone.  Songs hum like appliances, grind like motors & clank like factories.

Main ~ Ablation

First came Loop, then Main, then Robert Hampson put the pseudonym to rest and went it alone.  After 2006, fans were told they’d never hear another Main album again.  But the mourning was brief, because Hampson himself had not retired;