John Lennon’s Work of Faith
Removed from the pandemonium of Beatlemania, John Lennon knew the limits of his influence. All he could do was sing his truth and suggest people “imagine” a better world for themselves. Or not.
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Natural Information Society’s ‘Since Time Is Gravity’ Derives Energy From Communion
The music Joshua Abrams makes with his Natural Information Society is at once inviting, spell-inducing, and consciousness provoking.
SABIWA Folds the Music of Taiwan’s Ethnic Groups Into Odd, Elastic Concréte
SABIWA relies on Taiwan’s natural beauty and its traditions for a record that defies comfortable categorization and demands repeated listening.
15 Essential Scott Walker Songs
We celebrate the career of experimental pop pioneer Scott Walker through 15 of his essential songs.
Cybergrind Bibles & Messages to Ourselves: A Fire-Toolz Interview
Pivoting from cybergrind to New Age jazz within a song is nothing new for Fire-Toolz’s Angel Marcloid. What’s new is the fanbase she’s cultivating for her wild genre experiments.
YoshimiOizumikiYoshiduO Apply Synthesized Alterations to Piano and Voice
As one-half of the experimental YoshimiOizumikiYoshiduO, Yoshimi permits her music to seemingly pop up from under the ground like a rare and fragile fungus.
Mats Gustafsson and Joachim Nordwall Bend the Avant-Garde to Their Will
Experimentalists Mats Gustafsson and Joachim Nordwall have united to create an album that, even by their compartmentalized standards, is pretty out there.
Re-Considering the First Five Muslimgauze Releases in Memory of Bryn Jones
Muslimgauze’s first five releases are some of the most interesting, fully-realized artifacts to crawl out of the early 1980s industrial, experimental drainpipe.
Faten Kanaan Revels in Ever-Molting Textures on ‘Afterpoem’
Faten Kanaan’s musical molting feels more organic than the repetition in Steve Reich or Philip Glass; her music doesn’t rely on an unwavering framework for effect.
Stephanie Lamprea Creates a Fearless Interpretation of an Avant-Garde Song Cycle
Colombian-American soprano Stephanie Lamprea brings a spectacular amount of vocal technique to a challenging, unique, and weirdly playful piece of music.
The 25 Best David Bowie Deep Tracks
For all of the imagery that dominated the religiosity of David Bowie what matters most are the songs. Here are 25 killer deep-cut Bowie originals, album by album.
Roger Clark Miller Soundtracks Dreams with Composed Improvisations
Roger Clark Miller’s sonically fearless Eight Dream Interpretations for Solo Electric Guitar deserves to be considered more than just a Mission of Burma offshoot.