Niecy Blues’ ‘Exit Simulation’ Is the Sound of a Singular Artist
Niecy Blues’ Exit Simulation is a breathtaking and immaculate creative statement, expanding R&B. It will lay down fire and love in innumerable hearts and minds.
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Pan American Express Powerful Emotions Through Guitar Instrumentals on ‘A Son’
As Pan American, Mark Nelson sings for the first time since his magnum opus Quiet City, but his emotions are most powerfully expressed through his instrumental guitar compositions.
It’s Remarkable How Heavy Loscil Makes Emptiness Feel on ‘Equivalents’
Scott Morgan makes emptiness feel heavy on Equivalents, an album inspired by Albert Stieglitz's photographs of clouds.
Earthen Sea’s ‘Grass and Trees’ Has an Oblong, Building-Block Quality
Earthen Sea's lavishly detailed new album, Grass and Trees, sounds like a classic dub-techno album but somehow doesn't feel like one.
Tim Hecker Concludes His Negative Space Exploration with ‘Anoyo’
With his second record featuring a gagaku ensemble, famed experimental artist Tim Hecker produces a very different facade that shines through a beautifully minimal perspective.
Deerhunter’s Transcendent Trajectory
Deerhunter's Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? and Cryptograms are antithetical twins -- shattered mirror images, whose fragments echo each other and reflect Deerhunter's beginnings of and return to inspired experimentation.
Earthen Sea: An Act of Love
The streets of San Francisco at night are the inspiration for Earthen Sea's latest.
Loscil: Monument Builders
Monument Builders is a tribute to those who have sought to make grand artistic statements in their medium of choice, and Scott Morgan subverts this concept by adhering to a minimalist script.
Ken Camden: Dream Memory
Camden creates a Rorschach palette of guitars and synths that allows the listener to create their own meaning.