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ACL 2023 ~ The Top 20 Albums of the Year
This year’s Top 20 list is noteworthy for its variety, a reflection of the wealth of music on the market. For every 200 albums submitted to ACL, only one makes our final list. This makes it all the more remarkable
ACL 2023 ~ The Top 20 Albums of the Year
This year’s Top 20 list is noteworthy for its variety, a reflection of the wealth of music on the market. For every 200 albums submitted to ACL, only one makes our final list. This makes it all the more remarkable
ACL 2023 ~ Top Ten Electronic
This year’s top ten electronic albums run the gamut from quirky and fun to industrial and dark. These albums cross boundaries, incorporating drone, pop, hip-hop, and modern composition, while the themes include death and vulnerability, gender roles and climate change.
ACL 2023 ~ Top Ten Electronic
This year’s top ten electronic albums run the gamut from quirky and fun to industrial and dark. These albums cross boundaries, incorporating drone, pop, hip-hop, and modern composition, while the themes include death and vulnerability, gender roles and climate change.
*Press A* 2023 ~ The Year’s Best Videogame Soundtracks
In a year full of horror and tragedy, the videogame industry was not spared. Great websites went dark, forcing journalists to move writing homes, and countless studios were shuttered or forced to endure substantial workforce reductions while executives and investors
*Press A* 2023 ~ The Year’s Best Videogame Soundtracks
In a year full of horror and tragedy, the videogame industry was not spared. Great websites went dark, forcing journalists to move writing homes, and countless studios were shuttered or forced to endure substantial workforce reductions while executives and investors
ACL 2023 ~ The Happiest Music of the Year
There’s never a bad time for happy music. Happy music comes in a variety of intensities, from peaceful and comforting to joyful and ebullient to silly and fun. The type of happy music one listens to can be tailored to
ACL 2023 ~ The Happiest Music of the Year
There’s never a bad time for happy music. Happy music comes in a variety of intensities, from peaceful and comforting to joyful and ebullient to silly and fun. The type of happy music one listens to can be tailored to
Tristan Allen ~ Tin Iso and the Dawn
A Closer Listen has reviewed scores written for movies and TV shows, installations and exhibitions, plays and choreographies, but only one written for puppetry (@c’s Ab OVO) ~ until now. Tin Iso and the Dawn is the first part of a trilogy inspired
Tristan Allen ~ Tin Iso and the Dawn
A Closer Listen has reviewed scores written for movies and TV shows, installations and exhibitions, plays and choreographies, but only one written for puppetry (@c’s Ab OVO) ~ until now. Tin Iso and the Dawn is the first part of a trilogy inspired
Kate NV ~ WOW
Ridiculously happy, relentlessly upbeat, WOW is a sonic sugar rush, a candy-coated confection topped with syrup and sprinkles. Kate NV‘s energy never seems to flag, nor does her creativity ease. Breaking with previous recordings, her voice is diced, chopped and splattered;
Kate NV ~ WOW
Ridiculously happy, relentlessly upbeat, WOW is a sonic sugar rush, a candy-coated confection topped with syrup and sprinkles. Kate NV‘s energy never seems to flag, nor does her creativity ease. Breaking with previous recordings, her voice is diced, chopped and splattered;
ACL 2020 ~ Top Ten Ambient
A Closer Listen received over 10,000 submissions this year, 7000 of them valid, and we listened to at least a segment of every one. Now we’ve chosen 70 of them ~ one percent ~ to include in our year-end lists. The competition has never
ACL 2020 ~ Top Ten Ambient
A Closer Listen received over 10,000 submissions this year, 7000 of them valid, and we listened to at least a segment of every one. Now we’ve chosen 70 of them ~ one percent ~ to include in our year-end lists. The competition has never
Ian William Craig & Daniel Lentz ~ In a Word
FRKWYS Vol. 16: In a Word is the latest volume of an intergenerational project. We last visited the project with Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani’s Volume 13, which ended up on our list of the Best Ambient Albums of the
Ian William Craig & Daniel Lentz ~ In a Word
FRKWYS Vol. 16: In a Word is the latest volume of an intergenerational project. We last visited the project with Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani’s Volume 13, which ended up on our list of the Best Ambient Albums of the
a closer listen 