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13 min read 2022-12-20 07:01:21

ACL 2022 ~ The Top 20 Albums of the Year

Thousands of submissions, hundreds of reviews, and it all comes down to this: The Top 20 Albums of 2022! Our headlines: women dominate, filling the

4 min read 2022-12-16 07:01:37

This year’s selections are eclectic and exciting, and feature an array of uncommon instruments, radio transmissions, field recordings, experimental

4 min read 2022-12-16 07:01:37

This year’s selections are eclectic and exciting, and feature an array of uncommon instruments, radio transmissions, field recordings, experimental

5 min read 2022-12-15 07:01:59

Is it unfeeling to dance when the world seems to be falling apart? Or is the communal mingling of bodies essential to one’s well-being? The

12 min read 2022-12-08 07:01:07

Physical albums have never been harder to find. So why are album covers more important than ever? The answer is simple: people shop for music

2 min read 2022-11-16 07:01:25

Some listeners may remember Entanglement, Michael Price‘s 2015 debut album on Erased Tapes Records. Price has been busy since then writing music

2 min read 2022-10-13 07:01:10

Less than a year after Rival Consoles’ last release comes his newest album Now Is, which marks the artist’s third LP since 2020. The prior two

1 min read 2022-07-28 15:36:37

Photo: Dan Medhurst Ryan Lee West, better known as Rival Consoles, will release a new album on Erased Tapes. Now Is marks a new chapter in the

2 min read 2022-06-29 20:31:36

Nils Frahm will release Music for Animals, his first fresh studio material since 2018’s All Melody and 2019’s associated All

2 min read 2022-06-21 07:01:17

Aura is the exemplar of the human voice as instrument. While Hatis Noit often seems to be singing words, her debut album is wordless and

5 min read 2022-05-16 21:02:13

Asta Hiroki, from Brighton, on the south coast of England, came onto our radar through his submissions to our XLR8R+ member portal. Drawing from a

11 min read 2021-12-23 07:01:51

If 2020 was the most surreal year in recent memory, 2021 was the runner-up. A rollercoaster of emotion was supplanted by a mountain of malaise.

5 min read 2021-12-22 07:01:27

Sorry, friends, no folk or jazz made our top ten this year ~ 2021 was the year of rock and post-rock! With almost every major post-rock band

1 min read 2021-11-26 07:01:50

Overflow is a dance album, composed for Alexander Whitley’s production of the same name; but some of the tracks have enormous club potential as

1 min read 2021-11-09 06:56:00

Nils Frahm will release a new album on LEITER, the label he runs with his manager, Felix Grimm. Old Friends New Friends gathers together 23 solo