
“Fatcat Records” Archives
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The Length of the Rail by The Balky Mule (Review)
The Length of the Rail is a beguiling listening experience that rewards repeat listens.The Latest From Songs of Green Pheasant: Gyllyng Street
There’s an interesting story behind the new album’s title.Aerial Days by Songs of Green Pheasant (Review)
Aerial Days is full of tiny shimmering moments of beauty.Songs From Before by Max Richter (Review)
Richter’s music is perfectly suited to the themes of loss, nostalgia, and alienation that permeate Haruki Murakami’s work.The Twilight Sad EP by The Twilight Sad (Review)
There’s a rawness and youthful recklessness that never fails to render their music beguiling, even at its loudest and most abrasive.Songs of Green Pheasant by Songs of Green Pheasant (Review)
The album’s awkward-yet-earned shortcomings, much like its audio imperfections, only make it more affecting.Upcoming From FatCat Records
New titles are coming from The Twilight Sad, Songs of Green Pheasant, and Max Richter.The Blue Notebooks by Max Richter (Review)
Max Richter’s compositions possess an arresting and singular beauty.Sung Tongs by Animal Collective (Review)
If loving Animal Collective is wrong, I don’t want to be right.Summer Make Good by Múm (Review)
Even with the album’s obvious flaws, Summer Make Good is certainly no reason to write off or dismiss Múm.( ) by Sigur Rós (Review)
Compared to the celestial heights that Ágætis Byrjun strove for, ( ) feels remarkably restrained. But in its own way, far more ambitious.Finally We Are No One by Múm (Review)
Throughout Finally We Are No One, Múm never lets you forget that live, starry-eyed, wonder-filled humans are behind the music.Angels of the Universe by Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, Sigur Rós (Review)
You get the feeling that, in order to truly appreciate this music, you need to see the movie.Ágætis Byrjun by Sigur Rós (Review)
Songs like these belong in movies at those pivotal scenes when someone has a religious experience, when long-lost lovers are finally reunited, or when someone is brought back from the brink of death.Ný Batterí by Sigur Rós (Review)
I am here to say that Sigur Rós lives up to everything you’ve ever read or heard about them.