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ACL 2015: The Year’s Best Album Covers
Album art can draw listeners to music, or push them away. The best album art enhances the overall presentation, while the worst detracts from it. In some cases, we’ve reviewed albums because of the art, while in others we’ve declined.
ACL 2015: The Year’s Best Album Covers
Album art can draw listeners to music, or push them away. The best album art enhances the overall presentation, while the worst detracts from it. In some cases, we’ve reviewed albums because of the art, while in others we’ve declined.
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith ~ Euclid
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith is a new voice in music, and by this we mean not only that she is a new artist, but that her music sounds fresh as well. As with every type of innovation, it’s a combination of
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith ~ Euclid
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith is a new voice in music, and by this we mean not only that she is a new artist, but that her music sounds fresh as well. As with every type of innovation, it’s a combination of
ACL 2014: Top Ten Rock, Post-Rock, Folk and Jazz
Post-rock returns with a vengeance on this year’s chart, as more than half of the entries hearken back to the golden years of not too long ago. The consummate playing of scene stalwarts is a comfort to those who wonder
ACL 2014: Top Ten Rock, Post-Rock, Folk and Jazz
Post-rock returns with a vengeance on this year’s chart, as more than half of the entries hearken back to the golden years of not too long ago. The consummate playing of scene stalwarts is a comfort to those who wonder
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”,
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”,
Alexander Turnquist ~ Flying Fantasy
Often, fantasy is seen as a recourse to escapism, as an imaginary distancing that allows a momentary glimpse of personal utopia, an ephemeral feeling ingrained in the thought of someplace other where a negative ‘I’ exists. It is in this
Alexander Turnquist ~ Flying Fantasy
Often, fantasy is seen as a recourse to escapism, as an imaginary distancing that allows a momentary glimpse of personal utopia, an ephemeral feeling ingrained in the thought of someplace other where a negative ‘I’ exists. It is in this
Christopher Tignor ~ Thunder Lay Down in the Heart
It is the quality of uniqueness that appears most elusive in music today. Much of what is ‘new’ seems either palpably derivative of a specific artist or to exhibit the more discrete influence of genre or era. Uniqueness only seems
Christopher Tignor ~ Thunder Lay Down in the Heart
It is the quality of uniqueness that appears most elusive in music today. Much of what is ‘new’ seems either palpably derivative of a specific artist or to exhibit the more discrete influence of genre or era. Uniqueness only seems
ACL 2013: The Top 20 Albums of the Year
Over the course of the past year, we received thousands of albums and EPs to pore over, review and discuss. Out of these, we reviewed approximately 500. In this feature, we answer the Big Question: Which releases were the best?
ACL 2013: The Top 20 Albums of the Year
Over the course of the past year, we received thousands of albums and EPs to pore over, review and discuss. Out of these, we reviewed approximately 500. In this feature, we answer the Big Question: Which releases were the best?
ACL 2013: Top Ten Electronic
A quick glance around the few remaining outposts of the printed UK music press suggests that guitar bands are still very much ruling the roost, although it’s pretty obvious to anyone outside of a small coterie of indie-obsessed music hacks
ACL 2013: Top Ten Electronic
A quick glance around the few remaining outposts of the printed UK music press suggests that guitar bands are still very much ruling the roost, although it’s pretty obvious to anyone outside of a small coterie of indie-obsessed music hacks
a closer listen 