Posts Tagged: Richard Allen

Ludwig Göransson ~ Sinners (Original Motion Picture Score)

Warning: Contains minor spoilers!  It’s been two weeks since I’ve seen the film, and one week since I’ve seen the film again, and I can’t get the music out of my head.  Ludwig Göransson‘s Sinners may not only be the best film

Ludwig Göransson ~ Sinners (Original Motion Picture Score)

Warning: Contains minor spoilers!  It’s been two weeks since I’ve seen the film, and one week since I’ve seen the film again, and I can’t get the music out of my head.  Ludwig Göransson‘s Sinners may not only be the best film

Dalton Alexander ~ I Wonder How Many Are Still Alive

If the album title looks slightly but not completely familiar, it’s because we reviewed Almost Home If I’m Still Alive last year.  That LAAPS LP included Dalton Alexander‘s entire first album, plus three tracks from his second.  This year, I Wonder

Dalton Alexander ~ I Wonder How Many Are Still Alive

If the album title looks slightly but not completely familiar, it’s because we reviewed Almost Home If I’m Still Alive last year.  That LAAPS LP included Dalton Alexander‘s entire first album, plus three tracks from his second.  This year, I Wonder

Gwen Sainte-Rose ~ Collines / Racines

With physical releases on the wane, it’s comforting to open the Collines / Racines box to find small posters, photo cards, and ephemera foraged in the forests of Belgium.  Reading that the objects were collected by “the musician and her acolytes,”

Gwen Sainte-Rose ~ Collines / Racines

With physical releases on the wane, it’s comforting to open the Collines / Racines box to find small posters, photo cards, and ephemera foraged in the forests of Belgium.  Reading that the objects were collected by “the musician and her acolytes,”

Fletina ~ Vesun

Despite having released fifteen recordings in under two and a half years, Scottish sound artist Fletina remains enigmatic, the artist’s details as smudged as their recordings and even (in most cases) their cover art.  Two of the more specific recordings,

Fletina ~ Vesun

Despite having released fifteen recordings in under two and a half years, Scottish sound artist Fletina remains enigmatic, the artist’s details as smudged as their recordings and even (in most cases) their cover art.  Two of the more specific recordings,

Various Artists ~ For LA, Vol. 3

The fires in L.A. are out for now, and the attention of the press has drifted away.  But many of those affected continue to be in crisis: lost homes, lost income, lost loved ones, the daunting challenges of rebuilding or

Various Artists ~ For LA, Vol. 3

The fires in L.A. are out for now, and the attention of the press has drifted away.  But many of those affected continue to be in crisis: lost homes, lost income, lost loved ones, the daunting challenges of rebuilding or

Joshua Bonnetta ~ The Pines

Poet Wendell Berry writes of having “the wisdom to survive, to stand like slow-growing trees on a ruined place, renewing it, enriching it.”  On his four-disc set The Pines, Joshua Bonnetta finds a similar alchemy through sound. The long version of the

Joshua Bonnetta ~ The Pines

Poet Wendell Berry writes of having “the wisdom to survive, to stand like slow-growing trees on a ruined place, renewing it, enriching it.”  On his four-disc set The Pines, Joshua Bonnetta finds a similar alchemy through sound. The long version of the

Staraya derevnya ~ Garden window escape

The delightfully different Staraya derevnya, now seven strong, returns this spring with another unusual album.  The first sessions took place in London, later recordings were made in Bulgaria, Israel and Mexico, and the sparse lyrics combine Russian and invented languages, making

Staraya derevnya ~ Garden window escape

The delightfully different Staraya derevnya, now seven strong, returns this spring with another unusual album.  The first sessions took place in London, later recordings were made in Bulgaria, Israel and Mexico, and the sparse lyrics combine Russian and invented languages, making

Sinemis ~ Farewell

Turkish Injazero label head Sine Buyuka steps out as Sinemis to deliver a devastating diatribe against the government of her home country.  Farewell is also heartbreaking, pulsating with love and loss, the artist now in London, looking back on a once-thriving democracy and

Sinemis ~ Farewell

Turkish Injazero label head Sine Buyuka steps out as Sinemis to deliver a devastating diatribe against the government of her home country.  Farewell is also heartbreaking, pulsating with love and loss, the artist now in London, looking back on a once-thriving democracy and