ACL 2025 ~ Top Ten Field Recording & Soundscape

A remarkable year for field recordings was led by forms of minutiae’s incredible Ice Series, from which three albums made our top ten (and a fourth was just outside at #11!).  The series highlights the fact that the genre isn’t

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