Posts Tagged: bleed

Pavel Milyakov, Lucas Dupuy ~ Heal

It’s interesting when music with limited activity ends. The breaks between songs on an ambient album seem more jarring. There is often so little there to begin with. It’s too easy to let your mind wander. To lose track of

Pavel Milyakov, Lucas Dupuy ~ Heal

It’s interesting when music with limited activity ends. The breaks between songs on an ambient album seem more jarring. There is often so little there to begin with. It’s too easy to let your mind wander. To lose track of

ACL 2024 ~ The Top 20 Albums of the Year

This year, A Closer Listen received thousands of submissions and reviewed hundreds; today our international staff chooses twenty.  Three former chart-toppers appear on this year’s list, while one artist appears for the fifth time, but half are new, while our

ACL 2024 ~ The Top 20 Albums of the Year

This year, A Closer Listen received thousands of submissions and reviewed hundreds; today our international staff chooses twenty.  Three former chart-toppers appear on this year’s list, while one artist appears for the fifth time, but half are new, while our

ACL 2024 ~ Top Ten Experimental

Perhaps the greatest joy found in a year-end list of experimental music is that it rewards not only the experimentalism, but the overall appeal.  This is the landing spot for albums that stand out for being different, yet are embraced

ACL 2024 ~ Top Ten Experimental

Perhaps the greatest joy found in a year-end list of experimental music is that it rewards not only the experimentalism, but the overall appeal.  This is the landing spot for albums that stand out for being different, yet are embraced

The Necks ~ Bleed

Bleed begins with just a piano, four notes, and a lot of silence. Each note left to run its natural course. Their decay lingering, before being repeated, for the first few drawn out minutes of the record. When individual keys

The Necks ~ Bleed

Bleed begins with just a piano, four notes, and a lot of silence. Each note left to run its natural course. Their decay lingering, before being repeated, for the first few drawn out minutes of the record. When individual keys