Vinyl

At just 23-years-old, identical twin sisters Sophia and Jo Babb had faced a decade of darkness. Then, as Companion, they built lighthouses. With their debut album Second Day of Spring, the duo arrive at the start of a blooming new season, holding a work...

At it's debut, Michael Nau noted the presence (and absence) of time's influence on Paranoid Cocoon. He noted "there's no intentional theme behind these songs. Cocoon didn't span a lengthy duration of time, so head-space and moods tended to remain...

At Home with Southern Culture on the Skids consists of 11 tracks recorded and mixed in Rick Miller's living room with some additional tracks recorded at his studio, The Kudzu Ranch. The songs on the album are a combination of the band's unique mix of...

At first, Gia Margaret called her new album 'Romantic Piano' to be a bit cheeky. It's spare, gentle piano works share more spirit with Erik Satie, Emahoy Tsegu?-Maryam Gu?brou and the 'Marginalia' releases of Masakatsu Takagi than they do with, say, a...

At first listen, The Practice of Love, Jenny Hval's seventh full-length album, unspools with an almost deceptive ease. Across eight tracks, filled with arpeggiated synth washes and the kind of lilting beats that might have drifted, loose and unmoored,...

Assiko Golden Band de Grand Yoff is a sprawling drum collective tearing up Dakar's nightlife scene. Senegalese poet Djiby Ly (Wau Wau Collectif) is backed by 14 different percussive instruments plus horns, winds, marimbas, and the occasional accordion,...

Aspiring to connect with a world beyond our consciousness and our planet, nimiia vibi? sounds the interactions between a neural network, audio recordings of early Martian language, and microscopic footage of extremophilic space bacteria. Here, the...

Aspiga's debut full-length album, Every Last Piece. Aspiga is a punk band from New Jersey, and they definitely play punk rock, but I like to think of them as a cross between a punk-sounding Japandroids with some Weakerthans thrown in there for good...

Ask singer-songwriter Gabriel Birnbaum what inspired Male Models - the diverse new album from New York band Wilder Maker - and he'll mention everything from American novelist James Salter and the NBA playoffs to Thin Lizzy, and the delicate tightrope of...

Ask Bill Fay about his relationship with his instrument and he says something revealing, not "Ever since I learnt to play the piano," but "Ever since the piano taught me..." What the piano taught him was how to connect to one of the great joys of his...

Aside from Werner Pirchner's 'Himmelblau', the nine duos which Christian Muthspiel composed especially for this album form a cycle of duets in the mood set by the first track, 'Pas de deux tranquille'. Muthspiel is featured on trombone, piano, e-piano...

ASHRAIN is a brand new Power Metal band formed by a guitarist / producer, Nozomu Wakai (Destinia / Shortino/ Sigh). Nozomu released an album entitled "Metal Souls" as DESTINIA in 2018, which featured Tommy Aldridge, Marco Mendoza and Ronnie Romero. He...