Album Reviews
The singer/songwriter’s latest is a sure-footed album about trying to find confidence
Harsh zeniths and quietly brooding atmospheres stitched side by side
The sophomore release from Devi Mambouka is a dark and haunting ritual
The Japanese singer/songwriter returns five years after the acclaimed ‘Windswept Adan’ with a gorgeous new set of songs
The British post-punk revivalists offer a set teeming with ideas if steeped in the past
Expanding to a trio with drummer Tlacael Esparza, Darkside embrace a more urgent energy
Will Wiesenfeld returns after eight years with a more personal, less electronics-driven LP
FACS have a particular talent for carving dense, brutalist structures into sleeker contours and captivating…
The drone duo offer up one of their most spiritually rewarding sets of music to date
A remarkable unveiling of the experimental guitarist’s range and boundless curiosity
The veteran Chicago artist creates a spoken and text-based work is chaos delivered by process
Peter Prescott (Mission of Burma, Volcano Sons) takes on more atmospheric levels of sound with his abrasive band
The Chicago trio’s sophomore album maintains a playfulness with less noise to get in the way
A sumptuous modern classical album, somewhere between intimacy and wider expansion
A meditation on grief with an unexpected AI twist
The experimental artist offers up an album of profound change and self-discovery