Devon Chodzin
Daniel Lopatin’s latest and eleventh Oneohtrix Point Never album is a compelling, suitable soundtrack for the modern endless scroll.
6mo
On Blurrr, her second solo outing for AD93 and sixth album overall, Robertson’s solo songs emerge as cloudy exercises in emotional record-keeping, smoothed and sweetened by Oliver Coates’ wondrous strings.
8mo
The Mexico City-based duo’s approach to the avant garde is refreshing: they don’t dangle quick bliss on the other end of some painful exercise in sonic endurance, but blur the lines between challenge and reward, the instances of lucidity woven into the tapestry of experimentation itself.
9mo
Angel Abaya’s first album as Gelli Haha is a punkish post-disco pop record full of surprises and heart.
10mo
The LA singer-songwriter’s take on indie pop feels as familiar as your old salon, loaded with vintage charm.
1y
SUMAC and Moor Mother take the past and present to task while outlining a future beyond the current confines. For the most part, the two make music that’s beyond the sum of its parts.
1y
On the New Yorker’s fifth album, assemblages of generic string loops and prominent drum production mix with a litany of samples and entrancing vocals, all slightly out-of-step with each other. It feels like musical Jenga, where if any one feature slips too far behind, the entire structure could crumble.
1y
The Chicago-based vocalist works in darkness and electronics across her imaginative eighth album, touching on the possibilities afforded in embracing change.
1y
The Kingston band’s gnarly post-punk offers troubling representations of chaos and conflict with experimental instrumentation.
1y
The American-born, Denmark-based instrumentalist’s new effort is a cosmic collection of interwoven voices soundtracking abundance, focus, interdependence and more, making the folksy uncanny and the uncanny awfully homey.
1y
A Love You Cannot Shake is precision engineered to present the Pascal Stevenson of today that acknowledges her past without dwelling on it, even sonically, marking a telling step forward.
1y
The OKC noise rockers expand their sonic and subjective scope to prove just how desperate of a situation we’re all in.
1y
The Pittsburgh singer-songwriter's third LP balances grace with grandiosity, letting stories unfold through a collection of tracks brimming with poignant possibilities of cutting lyrics and bold composition.
1y
Colorado experimental slowcore artist Madeline Johnston takes her “heaven metal” treatment to someplace new on her fourth solo LP.
1y
Harrison Patrick Smith’s first full-length lionizes licentiousness into a mixed bag of bite-size party anthems and wearisome earworms that provoke even if you’re not looking for provocation.
1y
24 years after their last album, the experimental pop duo of Rose Melberg and Jen Sbragia revive their signature sound with refreshing tenderness.
1y
The Texas-born trio unveil a haunting, icy album that reaffirms their commitment to folksy ambient and jazz.
1y
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Scattersun is the transnational sign of a broader, rock-informed hip-hop and hip-hop-informed electro-rock horizon, a world where genre is not a constraint but one of several machines meant to run simultaneously.
1y
The singer, songwriter, and actress returns with more witty folk-pop that can get mired in half-hearted experiments.
1y
The legendary Chicago experimental duo release rarities and live recordings more than 25 years after disbanding, further cementing the impression they made on experimental music in the 1990s.
2y
The Los Angeles-based composer and singer-songwriter’s latest collection delivers a spectrum of emotions colored by expressive, refreshing candor.
2y
If I don’t make it, I love u is the kind of album that lets you spill your guts uncontrollably but promises to collect them all back into some semblance of order, even if that order is wonky. Ultimately, our everyday existences are wonky, and Still House Plants’ third record speaks to that truth unlike any other release of its kind.
1y
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