Various Artists LNOE 100

Published Feb 13, 2019

DJ Sasha's Last Night On Earth enterprise has been a solid purveyor of beats since its launch in 2011. The label, podcast and regular party...

RY X Unfurl

Published Feb 13, 2019

Australian singer-songwriter Ry Cuming has led something of a charmed professional existence. Since landing a Jive Records deal for his 2010...

Mark de Clive-Lowe Heritage

Published Feb 11, 2019

For those who recognize Mark de Clive-Lowe's name from this or that compilation disc, his new straight-up jazz effort is the most pleasant s...

Finlay Shakespeare Domestic Economy

Published Feb 04, 2019

What to make of an album, released in the dead of winter 2019, that sounds like a collection of 1983 club bangers? What to make of a vocalis...

Orphan Ann The Practice of Surrender

Published Jan 25, 2019

This debut from duo Sofia Al Rammal Sturdza and Anja Enerud aims high with electronic drones, samples and a dramatic mix of chants, screams...

Laurie Spiegel Unseen Worlds

Published Jan 21, 2019

The story behind this big, beautiful album is as extraordinary as the music itself. A year before releasing her debut, The Expanding Univers...

Dolphin Midwives Liminal Garden

Published Jan 16, 2019

Portland, OR's Sage Elaine Fisher has delivered an elegant, purposefully innovative recording that features vocals, harp and a healthy dose...

Lubomyr Melnyk Fallen Trees

Published Dec 10, 2018

Lubomyr Melnyk continues to produce exquisitely beautiful new classical work, earning an audience for his "continuous music" technique that...

bod [包家巷] The Recurrence of Infections [复发感染]

Published Dec 06, 2018

Having replaced the onslaught of sharp edges that made up Limpid Fear with more dulcet tones and vocals, Nicholas Zhu has delivered a bod re...

Paula Matthusen and Olivia Valentine Between Systems and Grounds

Published Nov 30, 2018

Paula Matthusen and Olivia Valentine's collaboration on this project dates back to 2016 when the duo booked a live performance in Budapest,...

Various Pop Ambient 2019

Published Nov 27, 2018

Kompakt's Pop Ambient series returns with its 19th iteration of a compilation they've delivered every year since 2001. The 13-track package...

Prins Thomas / Various Smalltown Supersound 25: Movement of the Free Spirit

Published Nov 27, 2018

Give Joakim Haugland credit. Not only has he managed to keep his Smalltown Supersound label a going concern for a quarter-century, he's foun...

Xenofox & Joke Lanz Alarm

Published Nov 27, 2018

Pauline Oliveros was only partly serious when she coined the term "deep listening" 30 years ago. The American composer, accordionist and ele...

Emanuele Errante The Evanescence of a Thousand Colors

Published Nov 23, 2018

There is a level of sophistication in Emanuele Errante's work that rewards attentive listeners with optimism. The Italian composer gives us...

Sofheso Archive: Collected Recordings 2014-2017

Published Nov 19, 2018

It won't be long before we're all the subject of a neatly packaged retrospective. Given the amount of digital content we produce over the co...

Ingrid Laubrock Contemporary Chaos Practices

Published Nov 14, 2018

Known primarily as a jazz saxophonist, Ingrid Laubrock has delivered a pair of new classical works on a sparkling new disc called Contempora...

Oberman Knocks Trilate Shift

Published Nov 13, 2018

Nigel Truswell has a new double-LP release for aperture records, his first for the label since 2014. Trilate Shift is an austere, at times d...

Charles Mingus Jazz In Detroit / Strata Concert Gallery / 46 Selden

Published Nov 01, 2018

Credit DJ Amir Abdullah with unearthing what for most of us would be the discovery of a lifetime: Five two-track master tapes featuring the...

Ian William Craig Thresholder

Published Nov 01, 2018

Vancouver's Ian William Craig has produced the ambient album of the year. Thresholder is his first release in 18 months, but its story stret...

Yoshinori Hayashi Ambivalence

Published Oct 23, 2018

There is a natural connection between electronic music produced for dance floors and for concert halls. Because the former is so beat-centri...