Pop Spotlight

When their self-released 2018 debut blew up—at least by ambient standards—the New York City quartet SUSS seemed to have appeared from out of nowhere, seasoned with secret history. Gray-maned and black-jacketed, they looked like the kinds […]

At the same time, he was brimming with fresh musical inspiration, drawn in part from voracious listening. In Herbie Hancock’s memoir, Possibilities, the pianist credits Williams as a constant source of new and challenging sounds during […]

You used to have to work so hard to be a stan: joining fan clubs, tracking down early EPs, downloading suspicious Megaupload links from message-board threads. Rarities were called that for a reason; they weren’t […]

Part and parcel of Beatriz Ferreyra’s compositional practice is the act of surrendering to music. “I do not think of anything,” she’s explained; “the sounds with their colors, their shapes, and their dynamics take me by the hand and […]

Anyhow, the solo debut from BADBADNOTGOOD multi-instrumentalist Leland Whitty, is like sleight of hand or a trick of the light. It’s a record that appears simultaneously small and ambitious, jazz and yet not. One one hand it’s […]

Noémi Büchi’s music seems to exist in the abstract realm of ideas, yet the Swiss sound artist sees her work as eminently tangible. “A musician also works with matter, the air,” she says. “It seems to […]

San Francisco based musician and singer-songwriter Meg Baird (of Espers, Heron Oblivion) has announced the release of a new album called Furling which is out on January 27th, 2023 via Drag City. According to the […]

Black Ox Orkestar formed from Montréal’s fertile post-punk scene of the early 2000s, featuring members of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Thee Silver Mt. Zion and Sackville, releasing two acclaimed and influential albums Ver Tanzt (2004) and Nisht Azoy […]

Låpsley is the project of British singer-songwriter, musician and producer Holly Lapsley Fletcher. She has announced the release of a new album called Cautionary Tales Of Youth which will be out on January 20th, 2023, following […]

Shame are a British London-based band comprised of vocalist Charlie Steen, guitarists Sean Coyle-Smith and Eddie Green, bassist Josh Finerty, and drummer Charlie Forbes. One year after Drunk Tank Pink, they have announced the third album called Food For […]

Electronic icon duo Plaid (Ed Handley and Andy Turner) have released a new album called Feorm Falorx which is out now via Warp Records. According to the press release, it is generally gentler than the dark angularity of […]

Kuma is a Bristol-born, Vancouver-based composer and musician. According to his bio, Kuma has brought sounds across the dub-based spectrum to ear and asses from Sapporo to San Francisco. He has announced the release of a new […]