Mary Lattimore - Hundreds of Days Remixes

January 25, 2019

I am often bored by remix albums because many of them are difficult listens from start to finish, curated for the utilitarian purpose of supplying DJs with varieties of a song or an album to play out in a club and unconcerned with …

AURORA - Animal

January 24, 2019

Norwegian singer-songwriter/producer Aurora Aksnes is following up her Infections of a Different Kind (Step 1) EP, the follow up to her studio debut All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend, itself a follow up to her first commercial project, …

Vampire Weekend - Harmony Hall/2021

January 24, 2019

One of the reasons humans are attracted to the consumption and creation of music is our addiction to inventorying the world around us into a system of patterns. We are able to find patterns (if patient) in even the most amorphous …

Planète - Hidden Shade

January 23, 2019

For those waiting for more Four Tet, Planète has come through with something to pacify a little longer. His latest single ‘Hidden Shade’ holds up well on the dance floor as well as in the armchair. The track gives the Bladerunner …

James Blake - Assume Form

January 18, 2019

James Blake Litherland is from London. He has released his fourth studio album, Assume Form. Here are my collected notes on the individual tracks that make up this project. …

Maggie Rogers - Heard it in a Past Life

January 18, 2019

Following the release of single after single after single the past two years, I fell for the quirky, anthemic girl-power-pop sound of Maggie Rogers. I was very excited when her first studio album was announced. Two years is a long …

Toro y Moi - Outer Peace

January 18, 2019

In rural Sonoma County, Chaz Bundick (now Chaz Bear) crafted his thirty-one-minute album Outer Peace with aims to relate with the working-class adult overexerting itself in the new workplace—a chair at home. Let’s take a look at …

3 Sentence Review // Gesaffelstein & The Weeknd - Lost in the Fire

January 11, 2019

Well, Mike Lévy and his brain are back, this time working with Canadian misspeller Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye for the first time since 2018’s My Dear Melancholy. The pair’s latest effort, ‘Lost in the Fire’, is a thin, lukewarm cup of tea …

2018 Roundup // Mountain Man - Magic Ship

December 22, 2018

I remember the first time I was introduced to Mountain Man. I went to see Jónsi perform in Atlanta nine years ago, and they opened for him that night. Three women walked onto the stage, no instruments, standing still, calm, small, …

2018 Roundup // C418 - Excursions

December 18, 2018

Daniel Rosenfeld creates music under the name C418 and is responsible for some of the most listened to audio pieces in recent history. Though not a household name himself, Rosenfeld wrote the soundtrack to Minecraft, the …