ACL 2025 ~ The Top 20 Albums of the Year

This year’s top album was a revelation: one of the humblest records we’ve ever covered drew acclaim from our entire staff.  In a year of tumult, it comes as no surprise that we would be drawn to the quiet and

ACL 2025 ~ The Year’s Best Ukrainian Music

For over three years, Gianmarco Del Re has been chronicling the creation of music under fire in two books and forty episodes of Ukrainian Field Notes to date.  Few had imagined the war would go on for so long, with

Katarina Gryvul ~ SPOMYN

Ukrainian composer Katarina Gryvul stunned us in 2022 with the indelible Tysha,  This year, on the heels of an astonishing collaboration with The National Museum in Warsaw, she returns with a set that is even wilder and more intense. SPOMYN means recollection, and the album