Once a week, Stack delivers a mix of the most interesting new music on the web, handpicked by the Hype Machine team. Here's a recent mix.
Michael Scott Dawson - Where There Is Happiness There Is Happiness (feat. M. Sage)
a closer listenFollow “The Tinnitus Chorus is the second tinnitus-themed album we’ve reviewed this year, following Lola de la Mata’s Oceans on Azimuth.…” on Aug 30th →
M. Sage - Crick Dynamo
Stadiums & ShrinesFollow “Stadiums & Shrines · S&S Radio – E85: Remembering a Dream in a Moment Divine Eighty-Five is interested in time…” on Dec 31st, 2023 →
M. Sage & Zander Raymond - It Is Isn't It
Bandcamp DailyFollow “This month's best ambient releases are structured like a drive from midnight until dawn. Zone out. Read full story on…” on Sep 28th, 2023 →
M. Sage - Evenin' Out
Chicago ReaderFollow “Experimental artist Matthew Sage, better known as M. Sage, moved to Chicago from Colorado in 2014, and within a couple…” on Jul 11th, 2023 →
M. Sage - River Turns Woodley (for Frogman)
Bandcamp DailyFollow “2023 continues to be an incredible year for ambient; this month's column is packed with releases from some of the…” on Jun 29th, 2023 →
M. Sage - Mercy Lowlands
The Slow Music Movement BlogFollow “what Your Ears Say & The Cover Looks LIke Paradise Crick by M. Sage What We Say Matthew Sage was…” on May 26th, 2023 →
M. Sage & claire rousay - A Belle Undressing
a closer listenFollow “This year’s picks emphasize the variety of ambient music through poetry, field recordings and home diaries, featuring children and cicadas,…” on Dec 15th, 2021 →
M. Sage - Zephyr: Ponderosa Pollen
Chicago ReaderFollow “An online collaboration by four musicians in four states has parlayed pandemic necessity into new forms of creativity—and some tight…” on May 26th, 2021 →
Lillerne Tapes - M. Sage "minno to taste
Bandcamp DailyFollow “Many of this month's best ambient releases are bold in scope, collapsing time, place, and genre to mould small worlds…” on Aug 6th, 2020 →
M. Sage - Illi Chalks
The Slow Music Movement BlogFollow “WHAT THE COVER LOOKS LIKE: WHAT WE SAY: It's a testament to a great producer when a "collection of fragments,…” on Jul 11th, 2020 →
M. Sage - Avondale Spectrum
The Deli MagazineFollow “Main Artist you are covering (it will be added to our charts): M. Sage Link to Artist's Bandcamp or Soundcloud…” on Apr 10th, 2020 →
M. Sage - Avondale Primer Gray
Chicago ReaderFollow “The Patient Sounds label goes out with a bang, Andrew Smith’s Jungle Green project drops its first album as a…” on Aug 13th, 2019 →
M. Sage - Polish Triangle
Ears To FeedFollow “The press release for M. Sage’s new album Catch A Blessing calls it natural, playful, and effortless. It does seem…” on Mar 7th, 2019 →
Lake Mary & M. Sage - Werewolf Picnic
Happy Days Are Here AgainFollow “Facebook: Lake Mary” on Oct 20th, 2016 →
M. Sage - I Put a Spell on You
Chicago ReaderFollow “Experimental musician Matthew Sage teaches a couple English classes as an adjunct at Wilbur Wright College, but because that apparently…” on Oct 19th, 2016 →
M. Sage - Three Bashful Stallions
Decoder MagazineFollow “I’m in my late thirties. For me, a year begins and then in the blink of an eye I’m looking…” on Jan 12th, 2015 →
M. Sage - Paper Paper Moon
verb/re/verbFollow “I was back had gone nowhere out of myself but inside-out where I was pink feet first into the earth…” on Jan 24th, 2014 →
M. Sage - Red Dwarf In E
PORTALSFollow “Experimental musician M. Sage has a pretty impressive catalog of music released over the past few years, covering ambient music…” on Jan 24th, 2014 →
M. Sage - Fuji Station: Confines of Time
Decoder MagazineFollow “Matthew Sage is always a fun person to write about — here’s a good intro to his work from Decoder’s…” on Jul 15th, 2013 →