Tag: Isabel Crespo Pardo

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Engaged in the summoning of lands that time forgot, whether it's crude vestiges of Americana or the Styxian blues of his last record, the guitarist Bobby Would carries an iterative and sometimes thrillingly pleonastic charm as he finds new points of emphasis and scrabbles the nooks and crannies of his scuzzy yet melodious loops. His new album Relics Of...

Described as an Afro-surrealist anti-opera, the double bassist Nick Dunston draws from the poetic and folkloric texts of Octavia E. Butler, Toni Morrison, Ted Chiang, Richard Hugo and Gabriel García Márquez to summon the libretto for one of the records of the year in COLLA VOCE. Maria Reich on the violin and viola, Anil Eraslan on the cello, Tal Yahalom...

The mood is often the first thing to come over on a Julia Holter song, a bristling and tenuous warmth or a soft-hued light which stays for a moment between glimmering, on repeated listenings giving way to subtle gradations of texture and colour. On the third single from her upcoming album Something in the Room She Moves, the singer...