Posts Tagged: The Necks
Pavel Milyakov, Lucas Dupuy ~ Heal
It’s interesting when music with limited activity ends. The breaks between songs on an ambient album seem more jarring. There is often so little there to begin with. It’s too easy to let your mind wander. To lose track of
Pavel Milyakov, Lucas Dupuy ~ Heal
It’s interesting when music with limited activity ends. The breaks between songs on an ambient album seem more jarring. There is often so little there to begin with. It’s too easy to let your mind wander. To lose track of
ACL 2024 ~ The Top 20 Albums of the Year
This year, A Closer Listen received thousands of submissions and reviewed hundreds; today our international staff chooses twenty. Three former chart-toppers appear on this year’s list, while one artist appears for the fifth time, but half are new, while our
ACL 2024 ~ The Top 20 Albums of the Year
This year, A Closer Listen received thousands of submissions and reviewed hundreds; today our international staff chooses twenty. Three former chart-toppers appear on this year’s list, while one artist appears for the fifth time, but half are new, while our
ACL 2024 ~ Top Ten Experimental
Perhaps the greatest joy found in a year-end list of experimental music is that it rewards not only the experimentalism, but the overall appeal. This is the landing spot for albums that stand out for being different, yet are embraced
ACL 2024 ~ Top Ten Experimental
Perhaps the greatest joy found in a year-end list of experimental music is that it rewards not only the experimentalism, but the overall appeal. This is the landing spot for albums that stand out for being different, yet are embraced
The Necks ~ Bleed
Bleed begins with just a piano, four notes, and a lot of silence. Each note left to run its natural course. Their decay lingering, before being repeated, for the first few drawn out minutes of the record. When individual keys
The Necks ~ Bleed
Bleed begins with just a piano, four notes, and a lot of silence. Each note left to run its natural course. Their decay lingering, before being repeated, for the first few drawn out minutes of the record. When individual keys
The Necks ~ Body
One of the things that makes The Necks so brilliant is their continual exploration of organicism in any and all its forms, not only in pure musical terms but also as ensemble. For the past few years that’s meant drawing
The Necks ~ Body
One of the things that makes The Necks so brilliant is their continual exploration of organicism in any and all its forms, not only in pure musical terms but also as ensemble. For the past few years that’s meant drawing
Chris Abrahams ~ Climb
Although he has a string of solo releases behind him, Chris Abrahams is probably best known as the pianist of that Australian powerhouse of improvisational music, The Necks. With his parent group recently celebrating its 30th anniversary with a string
Chris Abrahams ~ Climb
Although he has a string of solo releases behind him, Chris Abrahams is probably best known as the pianist of that Australian powerhouse of improvisational music, The Necks. With his parent group recently celebrating its 30th anniversary with a string
The Necks ~ Vertigo
Low drones, high-pitched buzzes fading in and out, seemingly meandering piano and percussions – Vertigo seems to try its best to represent a bodily affection, a perceptual disruption that denies the sufferer respite even after having closed the eyes. The
The Necks ~ Vertigo
Low drones, high-pitched buzzes fading in and out, seemingly meandering piano and percussions – Vertigo seems to try its best to represent a bodily affection, a perceptual disruption that denies the sufferer respite even after having closed the eyes. The
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