ACL 2014: Top Ten Modern Composition

Listening again to these albums, we’re reminded of the aching beauty that graces modern composition.  From “Atomos VII” to “going backwards to recover what was left behind”, from “The Musk Ox” to “pino” to “you are not alone, dear wolf”,

Stray Ghost ~ Mały Wilk

I will state this outright: Mały Wilk is one of the prettiest albums I’ve heard this year. It’s like an Ólafur Arnalds work, both deeply sentimental and rational, a work that plunges the listener into a musical environment so dense

Stray Ghost ~ Those Who Know Darkness, See The Light

Those Who Know Darkness, See The Light, the new album by Anthony Saggers, the man behind Stray Ghost, begins with a glorious big bang of sound. “Migration-Refraction”, the album’s first track, resembles an explosion in slow motion, with its ambient