Eschewing the dilated forms and performative lyrics of their debut album Menneskekollektivet, on their follow-up Selvutsletter the Norwegian duo of Jenny Hval and Håvard Volden dive headlong into the shared memories and...
This week the tap dancer Janne Eraker, fiddle player Vegar Vårdal, and bassist Roger Arntzen land with the click of a heel on the Lisbon-based jazz label Clean Feed Records, as from...
Fresh from feral lands, this week Laura Cannell takes flight on an album which figures the antiphonal call and response of birdsong. Soaring out over the marshes, furrowed fields, and scattered treetops...
Illuminating a story from their national history, this week the composer Pepa Päivinen and the percussionist Jussi Miettola recount the Finnish Civil War, as layers of woodwind and flute, the Seagull Merlin...
This week Ethel Cain issues avowals of love in the form of a thirteen-minute drone swarm, citing as references the Whore of Babylon and an autobiographical exploration of female neurosis in horror...
On Breathe the jazz organist Dr. Lonnie Smith keeps the blue note alive, stretching out enough space for some of Iggy Pop’s indelible soul stylings. On Haram, Armand Hammer cut through the...
On ‘Dear April’ swaddled by acoustics Frank Ocean makes do and mends, patching over and replenishing the ceaseless ruptures of the heart. On ‘M’errouh’ Emel Mathlouthi issues urgencies swept straight from the...
Lo a lark, which gracefully flutters, and hovers then plummets and swallows and soars, here sustained by swelling strings and in the adopted form of Angel Olsen, most melodious from All Mirrors...
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