Inventions: Inventions
Inventions places Eluvium’s lush, electronic ambience alongside Explosions in the Sky’s sense of space and tension.
Benjamin Hedge Olson
Squarepusher x Z-Machines: Music for Robots EP
This is not music for computers, this is music for robots; soulful, hyperactive, possessed by the spirit of Miles Davis, robots.
Tweens: Tweens
Tweens are making reference to punk rock that references pre-punk styles of pop, creating a double layer of musical nostalgia that is sometimes disorienting.
Anne: Pulling Chain
These songs are dull, forgettable, and mostly interchangeable.
Various Artists: Haiti Direct: Big Band, Mini Jazz & Twoubadou Sounds, 1960-1978
The music that comprises the three genres being represented here fearlessly borrows from the available cultural traditions and creates something fantastically original with the disparate ingredients.
Mark McGuire: Along the Way
Along the Way is always pretty, but rarely beautiful.
The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma: A Playlist Without Borders
I am forced to the conclusion that shredding might, in fact, be the international language.
The Sounds: Weekend
On Weekend, the Sounds sound like they are phoning it in.
Melt-Banana: Fetch
Fetch marries the lupine, atypical grindcore of their mid-'90s output, with the lunatic pop sensibility of 2007’s Bambi’s Dilemma with results powerful enough to destroy entire continents.