ACL 2025 ~ Top Ten Field Recording & Soundscape

A remarkable year for field recordings was led by forms of minutiae’s incredible Ice Series, from which three albums made our top ten (and a fourth was just outside at #11!).  The series highlights the fact that the genre isn’t

Anne-F Jacques ~ contre-montagne

One seldom thinks about holes unless one falls into them.  contre-montagne is all about holes, specifically those of Montreal.  According to Anne-F Jacques, the entire city “was created by digging holes: removing stones from the ground, then making buildings with them.”