Recording in a studio, the Chicago DIY trio sound newly airy and lush, but no less direct and sincere. Their confidence in their concision is the best part.
This art-punk collective’s utopian first LP illuminates the joy, camaraderie, and compassion that can exist in even the most unforgiving, isolating circumstances.
Continuing a remarkable run of post-comeback releases, the secretive Japanese producer trades chilly dub techno for warm, almost chipper house music.
The minimalist composer trades his usual chamber ensemble for the comparatively monochromatic tones of the Farfisa organ.
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In this Rising interview, the lifelong New Yorker and member of the art-punk trio Palberta talks about building up the confidence to release her first official solo record.
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The Chilean American musician’s third album this year is a nominal successor to 2015’s ambient film score Pomegranates, but where that album sprawled, Telas is taut and exhaustively balanced.
On their fifth album, the Detroit post-punk band recruits a woodwind section for its most expansive statement yet.
A landmark anthology originally released in 2001 documents how James “Plunky Nkabinde” Branch and his groups connected jazz, R&B, and funk through Afrocentric rhythms and spirituality.
The long-running Minnesota band’s 11th album is a distillation of their manifold strengths, largely comprised of pastoral accounts of American beauty curdling into something coarser and sadder.