Anz’s ‘All Hours’ Embraces Pop Without Losing Her Sonic Range
Anz’s All Hours is one of the most exciting debuts of the year from one of the most thrilling new voices in club music. It’s music for the all-nighters.
Parker Desautell
Parker has published with The Wrong Quarterly, Everyday Fiction, The Sun Chronicle, and Cadaverine Magazine. He graduated from Eastern University with a bachelor's degree in English.
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Discusses Recording With Emile Mosseri and the Power of Friendship
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith chats about working with Emile Mosseri, music in general, her love of cows, and her awe for the electricity stored in our bodies.
Ulla’s ‘Limitless Frame’ Is Spine-Tingling and Hair-Raising in the Gentlest Sense
Ulla’s Limitless Frame is spine-tingling and hair-raising in the gentlest sense, about as far from “wallpaper” music as ambient can be. This is her most intimate record yet.
Lee Gamble Documents Sonic Overstimulation on ‘Flush Real Pharynx’
Lee Gamble’s music asks: how far you go before that human core is lost? How futuristic can techno become without losing its playfulness and elasticity?
Stigma Continues His Run of Doomy, Minimal Trip Hop on ‘Too Long’
Stigma’s Too Long is a seven-track vortex of sinister filter sweeps, bleary-eyed synths, and detonating rhythms. As his music gets darker and weirder, it gets better and better.
VC-118A’s ‘Spiritual Machines’ Wrests Life Out of Infernal Dub and Electro Regions
If Shift Register showcased Samuel van Dijk’s mastery of sound design, Spiritual Machines is where he pushes his skill into more definitive and purposeful directions.
‘Preacher’s Sigh & Potion’ Lacks the Swagger of Matthew Dear’s Best Records
On paper, Matthew Dear’s Preacher’s Sigh & Potion: Lost Album seems like the kind of album that deserves to come out of the vault.
Penelope Trappes’ ‘Penelope Three’ Is a Meditative LP of Sultry Vocals and Glossy Electronics
Penelope Three is not a pop record, but it is Penelope Trappes’ boldest, most straightforward work to date. On Three, Trappes holds nothing back.
Ground’s Rickety, Folkloric House Achieves Perfection on ‘Ozunu’
Like all the best dreams, Ground’s Ozunu stays both bizarre and entertaining the whole way through. The folkloric house achieves nothing shy of perfection.
Daniel Avery Gets Nostalgic on ‘Together in Static’
Daniel Avery’s Together in Static moves along at a glacial tempo, full of mournful ambience, slow-motion beats, and waterlogged synth tones.
Colleen’s ‘The Tunnel and the Clearing’ Takes Us Deeper Into Her Fuzzy Analogue Sound-World
Colleen has struck out on a course all her own and continues to inhabit one of the most distinctive sonic terrains today, as on The Tunnel and the Clearing.
‘Amnesiac’ Remains Radiohead’s Freest Record 20 Years Later
Twenty years ago, Radiohead stepped back on Amnesiac, deconstructing their trajectory and tinkering around the edges of their sonic universe.