Reed Jackson
If Camel Lights had been released a couple of decades ago, it might have offered new ways to think about Animal Collective’s sound while opening new doors for the band.
3mo
In recording an album based around the sonic minutiae of his new life, Sage has created something both universal and intensely private.
8mo
Joni’s Jazz provides yet another insightful look at Mitchell’s fascinating oeuvre
8mo
With their second album, caroline has achieved an impressive new accessibility, and done so mostly on their terms.
12mo
The Royal Arctic Institute craft cool, limber and amiable instrumentals with a heavy focus on melody and color instead of velocity and complexity.
1y
Totality has the ring of fullness, of maximum potential reached, but Natural Information Society and Bitchin Bajas know that the whole has no limits and thus remains forever incomplete.
1y
Time Indefinite vibrates with a bereft privacy and an isolation so intense it becomes claustrophobic.
1y
Wong’s grandmother may be gone, but this strange, idiosyncratic and deeply personal tribute to her would no doubt have made her very proud.
1y
![石橋英子 [Eiko Ishibashi] - Antigone](https://cdn2.albumoftheyear.org/100x0/album/1186136-antigone_151427.jpg)
Antigone doesn’t offer any easy solutions to its puzzles, but it both passes the time and transforms it, reflecting a joyous, doomed, intolerable world that’s always on the verge of being redeemed.
1y
In the world of Circuit des Yeux, the body and the mind are always working together and always in conflict, each a vehicle and a prison for the other.
1y
Ra may have created the galaxy Allen’s operating in, but Allen’s carved out a solar system to call his own. And it may be that he’s just getting started.
1y
The longtime Animal Collective member teams up with the Highlife/White Magic guitarist for a collab with the intimacy of a passion project and the looseness of an endeavor not meant to be widely heard.
1y
Mogwai may not be writing Happy Songs for Happy People, but in so thoroughly assimilating so many musical approaches, they’ve found a way to make massive, deranged lullabies that urge you to stay awake, ready to handle whatever life throws at you.
1y
Weft may be a mini album, but it covers plenty of ground—and might break some as well.
1y
For now, though the LA bar where Jeff Parker and the ETA IVtet performed in every Monday has closed, a little bit of its energy lives on, whether they’re playing a jam that sounds like it could go on forever or a tune that’s always changing and feels like it could end at any minute.
1y