Jul 27, 2018 Music In Rotation: The Declining Winter, HTRK, Tobias Svensson, Thousand Foot Whale Claw, WMD (Review) Pastoral post-rock, ominous-yet-lovely electronic, contemplative electro-classical, krautrock-inspired cinematic music, and glassy dreampop.
Jul 7, 2018 Music Ways of Seeing Is The Advisory Circle’s Most Accessible Album, But It’s Still Pretty Weird (Review) The Council’s latest takes the Ghost Box aesthetic in more straightforward — though still odd and otherworldly — directions.
Jul 5, 2018 Music In Rotation: The Mary Onettes, Mondo Grosso, Pure Bathing Culture (Review) The Mary Onettes return with more dreamy pop, Mondo Grosso delivers euphoric electronica, and Pure Bathing Culture cover The Blue Nile.
Jun 27, 2018 Music In Rotation: Amy Klein, Lightning Bug, The Smynths, Tripmastermonk (Review) Classic-sounding goth pop, hazy dreampop, synth-only Smiths covers, and vintage Japanese cinematic funk.
Jun 4, 2018 Music The Embrace Between the Circus and the Sky by Silk Demon (Review) This collection of dreamlike yet unsettling ambient music is one of Dream Catalogue’s best releases in recent memory.
May 27, 2018 Music 10 Defining Albums, #5: Fathom by Mortal (Review) Mortal was the first band that showed me that Christian bands could hold their own with secular artists.
May 27, 2018 Music 10 Defining Albums, #4: I Could Live in Hope by Low (Review) I was completely spellbound by Low’s stripped down, sparser-than-sparse sound.
May 27, 2018 Music 10 Defining Albums, #3: The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads by Lift to Experience (Review) This album was a constant companion during a long period of heartbreak and doubt.
May 27, 2018 Music 10 Defining Albums, #2: What’s Going On by Marvin Gaye (Review) This is an album in which I still find peace, relief, and inspiration to this day.
May 27, 2018 Music 10 Defining Albums, #1: Wish by The Cure (Review) Put simply, no album feels more like high school to me, for better or worse, than Wish.
May 12, 2018 Music In Rotation: Gang Gang Dance, Dirk Serries, Aseul, Damien Jurado (Review) Sleek ethereal pop, serene drones, South Korean dreampop, and lush indie-folk.
Apr 13, 2018 Music A Dark Place by Tor Lundvall (Review) Tor Lundvall’s first vocal album in nearly ten years blends hushed ambient music with themes of sorrow and longing.
Apr 9, 2018 Music globalWAVEsystem’s Life Equals Death Took Christian Industrial Music to Dark, Distorted Extremes (Review) When I was in high school, I once used this album to scare the little kids in my church.
Mar 24, 2018 Music In Rotation: Natalie Evans, The Nightcrawlers, Slow Meadow, Chad Valley (Review) Delicate acoustic folk, spaced out synth jams, contemplative ambience, and soulful electronic pop.
Mar 16, 2018 Music Miracle’s The Strife of Love in a Dream Revels in Esoteric, Elegant Synth-Pop (Review) Miracle’s darkly elegant music takes the sounds of the ’80s and reshapes them into strange and thrillingnew forms.
Mar 9, 2018 Music Not Thrilled by Fine China (Review) Fine China return after thirteen years with some of their best songs to date. Elegant, wistful pop of the finest sort.
Mar 3, 2018 Music DigHayZoose’s Ambitious MagentaMantaLoveTree Combined Funk, Metal & Psychedelia With Strange Results (Review) MagentaMantaLoveTree is a sprawling, uneven album that’s by turns fascinating and frustrating, impassioned and inconsistent.
Feb 16, 2018 Music Raison d’être’s Alchymeia Is a Jung-Inspired Soundtrack Through the Shadows (Review) Raison d’être’s dark ambience may begin in the shadows, but it’s never content to stay there.
Feb 7, 2018 Music The Honeybear by Hampshire & Foat (Review) This “children fairytale book concept album” is full of enchanting, beguiling music.
Jan 20, 2018 Music In Rotation: Mount Eerie, Ride, Fine China, Amy Annelle, Josh T. Pearson (Review) Heart-breaking music about death; dreamy electronica from shoegaze giants; inspired ’80s pop; plaintive, old-timey folk/country; and goofy country-punk.