ACL 2023 ~ The Year’s Best Winter Music

At A Closer Listen, we make a clear distinction between winter music and music that is released in winter.  Winter music is evocative of the season and latitudes in which snow and ice take up permanent residence.  The catch is that some

Rob St. John ~ Örö

Örö is a multi-media extravaganza, another aesthetic triumph from Blackford Hill.  The pack includes an installation film, an artist’s book, a lathe-cut 7″ and an additional hour and 33 minutes of season-based field recordings from the former military island of Örö