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North Star, an album by Philip Glass on Spotify

(1977)

rhythms inside of rhythms and organic tape loops

This release is a pivotal point in contemporary music. It’s still as intriguing as I’m sure it ever was. When it wraps around you it reveals tangibility in melody in a body in constant motion.

#music review #philip glass

What Happens When I Try to Relax, an album by Open Mike Eagle on Spotify

(2018)

Open Mike’s anxieties have a surprising quality: they sound like confidence when by his wits they unravel in rhyme.

#music review #open mike eagle

Dreaming Remembering, an album by Nadine Byrne on Spotify

(2018)

whirls, pulses, beep, hey, I’m trying to, where do comforts come from? Stationary amongst flux, breath is charting my position, but I could easily fall into a new rhythm. The past lives in our bodies.

#music review #nadine byrne

Cities, an album by Steven R. Smith on Spotify

(2009)

Through my footsteps rebound dust and impressions of a trail. The wind howls strings and far-off voices but distance holds place awry, and there are ruins, and there is desolation around. My lungs fill with grains of sand, as some memory approaches.

#music review #steven r smith

Annihilated, an album by Sectioned on Spotify

#music review #sectioned

Deathless, an album by Ostraca on Spotify

(2016)

Richmond Va never disappoints when it comes to screamo. Deathless has the furry of pg.99 and the ambiance of Godspeed! There we sulk, scream, die, in life we’re deathless, biting at columns never ending.

#music review #ostraca

Joy as an Act of Resistance., an album by IDLES on Spotify

(2018)

Joy as an Act of Resistance. The title shows that this album is preoccupied with an opposition of forces - the constant push and pull of the societal organism loving, hating, building and destroying itself simultaneously it makes me want to find joy in all of it yelling about god damn fuck yeah

#music review #idles

Safe In The Hands of Love, an album by Yves Tumor on Spotify

(2018)

Is it Pop? is it Experimental? Is it RnB? Does it make me feel like Heaven? Does it make me feel like hell? I don’t know but a lifetime can be beautiful, and I do sure love the way he paints his face.

#music review #yves tumor

Aytche, an album by Joseph Shabason on Spotify

(2017)

An explosion in the supreme distance has lost its magnitude: it is disordered yet calming and smooth. It all falls apart and comes back together beautifully and harmoniously.

#music review #joseph shabason

I Need to Start a Garden, an album by Haley Heynderickx on Spotify

(2018)

I need to start a garden to nurture it all. My growth in flourishing artistry. There is dirt in the carpet on the bedroom floor. My acoustic guitar has sprouted roots. No face says: It will bloom soon.

#music review #haley heynderickx

Woke On A Whaleheart, an album by Bill Callahan on Spotify

On A Whaleheart, an album by Bill Callahan (2007)

Aloof yet sharp. Lazy yet rigorous. A surprisingly moving, witty and optimistic take on the tragedy of life filtered through lo-fi country/folk and playful production.

#music review #bill callahan

The Laughing Boy, an album by Matteah Baim on Spotify

The Laughing Boy, an album by Matteah Baim (2009)

I like to listen to this one in the early morning, when I’m hardly awake and barely sleeping. I guess at this point my subconscious knows it better than I do, so each listens’ rung a bit truer. It's folk like an opaque dream in between the alarms.

#music review #matteah baim

Eternally Even, an album by Jim James on Spotify

Even, an album by Jim James (2016)

This album is awesome. I am in awe. The tone of the recording took a minute to click with me but I latched into those grooves like velcro. It hits fuzzy and smooth and with just enough discordance to keep you on your toes. The terms sick and gnarly find appropriate usage here.

#music review #jim james

Raw Silk Uncut Wood, an album by Laurel Halo on Spotify

Silk Uncut Wood, an album by Laurel Halo (2018)

I was walking down a hill one morning listening to the first song, and I felt welcomed and completely entranced by the atmosphere of the first song and completely trapped inside the hellish mind of the fourth. Versatile and experimental, accurate to the album cover.

#music reviews #laurel halo

Loving Takes This Course - a Tribute to the Songs of Kath Bloom, an album by Various Artists on Spotify

Takes This Course - a Tribute to the Songs of Kath Bloom, an album by Various Artists (2007)

Kath Bloom’s influence is far greater than the appreciation of her work is. The effect of her music on artists and listeners is extremely potent in delicate care to the source material in this tribute. Kath Bloom’s music is warm, homely and a necessary stop for any lover of folk music.

#music reviews #kath bloom

Middle of the Road Less Travelled, an album by Michal Turtle on Spotify

Middle of the Road Less Travelled, by Michal Turtle, Hove (2018)

This album pops and drips like dreary liquid obsidian baby. Perfect study-tunes or looking-out-a-cold-window-tunes.

#music reviews #michal turtle

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