Posts Tagged: Desire Path

ACL 2015: Top Ten Experimental

The cool, the crazy, the distinctive ~ every artist and album has a shot here.  In this section, we celebrate music that’s clearly different from the competition.  Experiments don’t always work, but here they have; these risks have produced rewards.

ACL 2015: Top Ten Experimental

The cool, the crazy, the distinctive ~ every artist and album has a shot here.  In this section, we celebrate music that’s clearly different from the competition.  Experiments don’t always work, but here they have; these risks have produced rewards.

Leafcutter John ~ Resurrection

Back in 2006, Leafcutter John recorded a beguiling album called The Forest and the Sea, that turned out to be my favorite album of that year.  I wasn’t writing for anyone back then, but this is my chance to make up for it.

Leafcutter John ~ Resurrection

Back in 2006, Leafcutter John recorded a beguiling album called The Forest and the Sea, that turned out to be my favorite album of that year.  I wasn’t writing for anyone back then, but this is my chance to make up for it.

V/A ~ Line Drawings

A line in the sand is meant to separate two items and to define them by their separation.  The impetus for Line Drawings was to make a statement on behalf of experimental musicians: to separate the bland from the authentic.  As the

V/A ~ Line Drawings

A line in the sand is meant to separate two items and to define them by their separation.  The impetus for Line Drawings was to make a statement on behalf of experimental musicians: to separate the bland from the authentic.  As the

ACL 2013: Top Ten Ambient

Ambient music continued to stretch its wings in 2013.  Among our top picks: an album conceived as a love letter, an EP addressing mental illness and a 7″ vinyl that samples the original Dracula.  It’s not just piano and birds anymore.

ACL 2013: Top Ten Ambient

Ambient music continued to stretch its wings in 2013.  Among our top picks: an album conceived as a love letter, an EP addressing mental illness and a 7″ vinyl that samples the original Dracula.  It’s not just piano and birds anymore.

ACL 2012: Top Ten Experimental

Many artists claim to be experimental, simply since they experiment; but this does not make them experimental artists.  In order to be placed in this category, an artist must be wildly improvisational, incredibly creative, or straight out hard to define.

ACL 2012: Top Ten Experimental

Many artists claim to be experimental, simply since they experiment; but this does not make them experimental artists.  In order to be placed in this category, an artist must be wildly improvisational, incredibly creative, or straight out hard to define.

Charlemagne Palestine & Janek Schaefer ~ Day of the Demons

At the crossroads between creepy and beautiful lies Charlemagne Palestine and Janek Schaefer’s Day of the Demons. The kind of music that captivates and repulses all at once, invites one to delve be drawn into a trance-like state and punishes

Charlemagne Palestine & Janek Schaefer ~ Day of the Demons

At the crossroads between creepy and beautiful lies Charlemagne Palestine and Janek Schaefer’s Day of the Demons. The kind of music that captivates and repulses all at once, invites one to delve be drawn into a trance-like state and punishes