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It's an old saw by this point to suggest that while the livelihood of the average working musician has never been more perilous, the curious listener has at the same time never before had access to such an abundance of quality music, from nagging earworms to the experimental margins and everything in between. In a year that saw bubbling...

In the fall of 2015 the drummer and composer Mike Reed came across a harrowing story in The New York Times about 'The Lonely Death of George Bell', a 72-year-old New Yorker who passed away sequestered inside of his Jackson Heights apartment, his body 'crumpled up on the mottled carpet' after lying there undiscovered for almost one week. A hoarder,...

After swapping the conservatory for the computer screen, the Catalan vocalist and pianist Marina Herlop was forced to play a waiting game as it took two years for her debut album Pripyat to be released. Picturing herself as a domestic gardener, a stubborn horticulturalist who might prune her ornamentals only after first raking the muck and planting some seeds,...