ACL 2016: Top Ten Drone

While ambient music can be surprisingly loud, drone can be surprisingly soft; the genres dance around each other like yin and yang, never separating yet never quite reconciling.  In each genre, the sharpest contrast makes the biggest impact. Drone can

ACL 2016: The Year’s Best Film Scores

With this feature, our film score picks graduate from a pre-awards article to a year-end list.  2016 has been an exemplary year for film scores, as many of our favorite artists have tried their hand at the cinematic genre and passed

Saåad ~ Verdaillon

Saåad did not set out to make a “church organ album”, or even a spiritual album, but that’s what happened when they were given access to the Puget pipe organ in the Church of Notre-Dame de la Dalbade.  It’s just not

Mondkopf ~ Hadès

Mondkopf‘s Hadès was released in February but has finally hit its proper season.  This album is no secret; it has sold out at source, and one has to scour the net to track down the remaining vinyl and CD copies.  It’s worth