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Mamaleek’s “Eating Unblessed Meat” offers more strange, artful twists on metal
An artful, technologically enhanced and unpredictable direction for metal from the Bay Area band.
James Blackshaw shares “Why Keep Still?”, his first new track in four years
Hear the guitarist's first new track in four years.
Benoit Pioulard : Sylva
A conceptually interesting album that creates space for noise and imagination.
20 Years of Darkness: A conversation with The Body
Lee Buford looks back at the band's history, their new remix album and exploring mental health through music.
Album of the Week: Moor Mother – Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes
A dark, powerful triumph that harbors hope and joy amid its intense sonic landscape.
Sufjan Stevens & Timo Andres : The Decalogues
A good if minor art music piece that should have us taking an overdue reexamination of Stevens as an artist.
FiRES WERE SHOT craft kaleidoscopic acoustic sounds on “Forter Starter”
Hear a stunning new track from the Austin duo's new EP.
Alarm Will Sound/Donnacha Dennehy : The Hunger
A heartbreaking opera that needs no formal training to appreciate.
Experimental collective Nous (feat. members of Swans, Liturgy) share climactic new track “Look Again At That Dot”
Hear the new track from the band's upcoming album (the first of three they have planned).
Kim Gordon : No Home Record
The former Sonic Youth bassist and vocalist appears to be searching for something new, though it's not clear that she's found it.
Album of the Week: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Ghosteen
A double-album meditation on grief that's the prettiest and most devastating album of Cave's career.
Prurient and Steve Moore release new Halloween albums via Amazon Music
Hear three spooky new sets from the experimental producers.
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ “Hollywood” is a masterful meditation on loss
The longest and most ominous track from Cave's latest is one of his most stunning compositions to date.
Mike Patton & Jean-Claude Vannier : Corpse Flower
A record that's far too safe on one side and too far from perfect on the other.
Talk Talk’s Mark Hollis’ solo debut to be reissued on vinyl
The Talk Talk founder's 1998 solo album being reissued in October.
Cinema Cinema’s “Radio Ready” is a furious squall of punk improvisation
Two minutes of free-punk intensity.