ACL 2014: Top Ten Modern Composition

Listening again to these albums, we’re reminded of the aching beauty that graces modern composition.  From “Atomos VII” to “going backwards to recover what was left behind”, from “The Musk Ox” to “pino” to “you are not alone, dear wolf”,

A Winged Victory for the Sullen ~ Atomos

Second albums may often be ‘difficult’, but sometimes artists under the unprecedented pressures of time and expectation will take flight. For Dustin O’Halloran and Adam Wiltzie, the situation was slightly different. Two years after the release of their critically acclaimed

Michael Price ~ A Stillness

Erased Tapes has signed yet another talented modern composer.  The label has done an exemplary job over the past few years, gathering them all in the same place. While Michael Price is the latest of these, the artist is no newcomer; without

Ólafur Arnalds ~ Another Happy Day OST

Ólafur Arnalds‘ score to Another Happy Day features the welcome return of an element missing since the ending of Eulogy for Evolution: grit.  It’s there at the end of the opener, resurfaces two tracks later, and permeates the closer, “Everything Must Change”. Sure, one