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.
Quicksails - Final Walk
Chicago ReaderFollow “Since 2013, local power trio Chicken Happen have been making excellent tunes that share more than a vibe with 90s…” on Oct 31st, 2023 →
Quicksails - Cypress
Chicago ReaderFollow “Many prolific musicians call Chicago home, but multi-instrumentalist Ben Baker Billington is a veritable Energizer Bunny. He’s been contributing otherworldly…” on Jul 22nd, 2020 →
Quicksails - Blue Rise
The Deli MagazineFollow “Main Artist you are covering (it will be added to our charts): Quicksails Link to Artist's Bandcamp or Soundcloud page: …” on May 22nd, 2020 →
Quicksails - The Bright
The Deli MagazineFollow “Main Artist you are covering (it will be added to our charts): Quicksails Link to Artist's Bandcamp or Soundcloud page:…” on May 3rd, 2018 →
Quicksails - Valley Voice
THUMPFollow “The Chicagoan composer Ben Billington is nominally a drummer. He's best known for frantic free jazz and acidic experimental exercises…” on Jan 13th, 2017 →
Quicksails - Faith Feel
raven sings the bluesFollow “Ben Billington’s Quicksails has hovered on the periphery of my consciousness for a while, but he’s never hit home quite…” on Jan 12th, 2017 →
Quicksails - Find Flux
ChromaticismFollow “A crash course in all that is Quicksails with a few words from the man himself; “Quicksails is the moniker…” on Sep 23rd, 2015 →
Quicksails - Only Escape
Ants in My TranceFollow “SUBSCRIBE: iTUNES, RSS, SOUNDCLOUD, MIXCLOUD, TUMBLR | image by Junichi Murayama Here's a two-hour playlist of tracks from some of my favorite…” on Dec 18th, 2013 →
Quicksails - Institute's Innards
Decoder MagazineFollow “Shortly after his now sold-out Weight of Worth cassette for his fellow Chicagoans at Teen River Tapes in February, experimental…” on May 23rd, 2013 →
Quicksails - Empty And Full
Fluid RadioFollow “post thumbnail Under The Spire has struck gold again with this, a vinyl reissue of Quicksails’ Silver Balloons In Clusters,…” on Mar 27th, 2012 →
Quicksails - Million Knots
Forest GospelFollow “ (Deception Island, 2011) I don't go in for a lot of the synth-based experimental stuff coming out lately.” on Feb 6th, 2012 →
Quicksails - Must Never Catch It
Friendship BraceletFollow “Some of the most exciting ambient flutterings I've heard lately come from Chicago's Ben Billington a.k.a. Quicksails. I caught word…” on Dec 18th, 2011 →