Grabek, the non-mysterious moniker of violinist and composer Wojtec Grabek, can’t leave well enough alone in his audience’s emotional world. Tiny Melodies stirs up what we’ve all gone through painstaking effort to bury under unnatural silences, …

Following the death of Tom Relleen, TOMAGA’s other half Valentina Magaletti has released their final album, Intimate Immensity. Morbidly relaxing, the project offers great diversity in approach, despite its high school honors poetry title. Concerns of another steel …

Tristan Hallis, the very real name of DJ BORING, is here with a remix of former pizza delivery driver Chrisophe Dubé, the very real name of CRi, who has left the world of delivering hot pies to deliver hot beats. Hallis has found inspiration in CRi, the latest addition …

Frits Wentink and Eric Madigan Heck’s latest project, Safe Passage, with contributions from Tilda Swinton, pays homage to Heck’s deceased mother. In an album that could turn irreproachably dark and melancholic, Wentink and Heck instead produce a composition …

Wojtek Grabek’s recent track, a rework of Saigon Would Be Seoul’s ‘If This Is A Man,’ traverses an album in miniature. The Polish composer and violinist demonstrates the elemental core of the original track, molten with the materials of a powerful story in multiple …

CS + Kreme beg of us one single question, howwouldyoufeelwithoutthatthought, but do not leave much room for response. Somber chanting, splayed beats, and some sort of didgeridoo frame out a long hellish boat ride to the other side in ‘April Fool’s Day’— a …

Lost Boi is by far Justin Jay’s most techno-y project yet. Far out in its melodics, the opening track ‘Questions?’ gives most of its space to a hard-and-fast Eurotech drumkit. It’s a departure from romanticism, but not an altogether abandonment. …

TOBACCO partners with Trent Reznor to elaborate on his signature gross-out-electro-shoe-gaze-grunge-core-yada-yada sound. Hot Wet & Sassy has a handful of successes, which stray far enough away from their “sound” to demonstrate their musicality. However, …

Ariana believes in the laws of attraction, or at least wants her audience to think she does. As much fun as the top tier of top 40s artists have had evoking Kabbalistic imagery and insinuating witchiness and sex magic, I can’t see a reason not to roll with it …