Good evening. This new album by Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood is a quiet but rather beautiful work of art. Genre: folk/rock. Read some reviews and enjoy! (US version here.) Mark...
By plunging impassively into their own hearts of darkness, Lanegan and Garwood demonstrate that there’s still plenty of life lurking muddy waters of blues.
In the 1960s, '70s, and '80s the German actor Klaus Kinski earned a reputation as the wild child of European cinema. More
Brooklyn Rider is an American string quartet lauded for its electrifying performances and progressive vision. Their debut album, A Walking Fire , reflects the artistic...
Limited release. Privately pressed in Scotland in 1979, this illusive and quite wonderful percussion album is like no other. Played by a group of 11 girls with an average age of...
A superb double live and remix album from future jazz band Portico Quartet.
A towering talent, not just as a guitarist, but as great American storyteller.
All Hail Bright Futures could be taken as both an ethos for the album and the band at this point in time. There is a new color scheme in place: new textures, emotions, sounds and...
With songs that range from relentless mid-tempo churns to subterranean crawls, Batillus cohere the extremes of heavy music into a surge of massive riffing, rolling over and...
Energetic and funky instrumental big-beat hiphop from San Diego. Released on Exponential records
Guitar/bass/beat oriented sample driven compositions. Released on Ryan Stephenson music
A deeply atmospheric masterpiece from contemporary Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds.
Classical and compositional music is usually incapable of receiving the same kind of critique as popular music. There is more to contend with as far as the compositional strength...
"Les Revenants" ("the ones who came back"), a French TV program for which Mogwai provides the soundtrack, is a gorgeously subtle, harrowing drama that explores the reality of...
Back in February this year, composer Clint Mansell told London's The Guardian that film scores and post-rock were becoming interchangeable. More
Can you preface an album review with a spoiler alert? In this instance the review is for the soundtrack to a TV series, a medium where people go absolutely nuts if you reveal even...
The sound of a band you thought you knew really well playing to strengths they don’t display enough, and one or two you never knew they had.
Hi. This new soundtrack by Mogwai was just added to Spotify. Enjoy! (US release date, as usual, is one day later.) Mogwai – Les Revenants Soundtrack Filed under: 2013, Soundtracks
Three weeks after Clogs released The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton in March 2010, the woman for whom it was named died. Lady Susana Walton had been married to the...
Wow, what a great day in music! Today marks Emancipator’s first self-release on his new record label, Loci Records. The album Dusk to Dawn is nothing short of stunning. Though...
Brokeback and the Black Rock has the sound of a band playing. The arrangements were sweated over during the year and a half prior to recording, so the challenge was to capture...
Debut album from the duo of Sean Lennon and Greg Saunier of Deerhoof. Instrumental psych rock and avant grade in a variety of moods and styles. "Truly, the music here is all over...
When I was in college I went a couple times to a house where some slightly-older friends lived. Usually everyone in the house was in some sort of drug-induced haze, and, depending...
Mystical Weapons is a collaboration between Deerhoof drummer Greg Saunier and Sean Lennon. Lennon has had a solo career since the mid-90s and is, of course, the son of John Lennon...
Lento's third full-length album has the immediacy of their previous release Earthen with the violence and aggressiveness of Icon . But Anxiety Despair Languish does something more...
Berlin-based pianist Nils Frahm presents a 30 minute mini-album to his fans. Nils experienced an unfortunate accident, which saw him fall from his bunk bed located directly above...
On their fourth album, counting the limited vinyl-only Live At The BBC , Elephant9 join forces with Reine Fiske, the quite excellent Swedish guitarist from Dungen, The Amazing and...
Indie-classical composer Nico Muhly's pieces feel like a series of archly posed questions. In their formal inventiveness, love of blank space, and haiku-like neatness, they arouse...
Konntinent provides the perfect soundtrack for driving at night through the fallen electronic cities of the future.
Evening friends. Here is another solid album from last week. Genre: rock. Enjoy Cold Pumas! Cold Pumas – Persistent Malaise Filed under: 2012, Rock
The Brighton-based Cold Pumas didn't play their first live shows until a year after they formed in Exeter in 2008, and between then and now, they've released just three of their...
Mogwai made their name on a simple formula: be very quiet, and then, without warning, be sadistically loud. But very early on, the group showed they weren't especially precious...
Following on the trails of his largely successful 2011 EP Sis Surpris, Débruit’s From the Horizon continued the theme of almost impossibly absolute fusion, this time of West...
22 rare and unreleased vintage tracks from the secret vaults of one of the most enigmatic composers in 60s/70s/80s European cinema. Originally recorded in the best studios in...
Nearly a year ago, the band formerly known as Alexander ran into a bit of an identity crisis. After operating under the moniker of singer/songwriter Ryan Alexander's family name...
With thoughtfully crafted compositions so carefully rendered, Godspeed You! Black Emperor plays like a massed force that could show its mighty strength at any time, and can be...
How to approach a new Godspeed You! Black Emperor album? The exciting reappearance of one of the most politically vital bands of the last 20 years, or as an intervention into a...
A Godspeed reinvigorated, imbued with their best spirit, and driven by optimism.
