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Ava Rasti - No One Knows How Wild The Wind Blows
a closer listenFollow ““The map looks wide, but the choice is never free. Here or there? Or should we have stayed at home,…” yesterday →
Sheeba exp. - Unspoken
a closer listenFollow “Quality instrumental-based industrial music is in short supply these days, which makes Soliloquy // A Body Knows a modern gem.…” 4 days ago →
Bow and Arrow - Last Wish
a closer listenFollow “Lea Bertucci and Michael Beharie team up as Bow and Arrow on a self-titled debut Bertucci describes as “devotional music…” 5 days ago →
DEAFKIDS - CICATRIZES
a closer listenFollow “Cicatrizes do Futuro droops in an ecstasy of fear, but Deafkids turn that fear into propulsion. From the glitching opening…” 6 days ago →
Toàn - DEL 7
a closer listenFollow “Solitarium bears all the hallmarks of a mid-career work from an artist practiced at his craft. Toàn is the longest…” last week →
AUDUS - The Hear and The Why
a closer listenFollow “Once in a while it’s great to hear that the old ways are being honored, cherished and kept alive. On…” last week →
Bibio & Dorian Concept - Womb Glow
a closer listenFollow “Bibio has the distinction of having appeared on our lists of Best Spring Albums and Favorite Fall Albums while also…” last week →
Caspian - Far Country
a closer listenFollow “Can Caspian really be 21 years old? You Are the Conductor was released in 2005, instantly launching the Beverly, MA…” last week →
Nero's Day At Disneyland - ∅Babylon
a closer listenFollow “How long has hyperpop been around? A lot longer than one might suspect. Nero’s Day at Disneyland has been active…” last week →
Ümlaut - Distant Light
a closer listenFollow “At home, it’s natural to fill empty aural spaces with music, television or podcasts. But when we turn off such…” on Oct 9th →
Emna Mâaref - Ouverture’25
a closer listenFollow “The title of Emna Mâaref‘s first solo full-length comes from a verse by the tenth-century Arab poet Abu Firas al-Hamdani,…” on Oct 8th →
Rachel Shearer - Waha
a closer listenFollow “Black album covers are fairly rare; Prince’s The Black Album comes to mind, along with Thembi Soddell’s black-on-black Love Songs,…” on Oct 5th →
Hour - Pearls
a closer listenFollow “Look at all those people! Everything seems bigger on Hour‘s newest album. There are fourteen people in the ensemble (four…” on Oct 4th →
Siavash Amini & Eugene Thacker - Sigils of Decay (for João da Cruz e Sousa)
a closer listenFollow ““There are black silences, like thunderclouds, that burst into flashes of music,” H. G. Wells writes in Select Conversations with…” on Oct 3rd →
Blair Coron - Isle of Canna, Midsummer, 5:54am, 2026
a closer listenFollow “Is Woven Ground an EP with an accompanying film, or a film with an accompanying EP? We’ll leave it to…” on Oct 2nd →
Sunken Cages - Kerala
a closer listenFollow “Neram Pularumbol (“As The Dawn Breaks”) finds Sunken Cages pulling the rhythmic traditions of South India into an electronic vocabulary…” on Oct 1st →
Felice Sciorilli - Breaths
a closer listenFollow “Felice Sciorilli first graced our pages last spring, appearing on Biodiversità Records’ 14 Soundcapes with the track “Breaths.” At the…” on Sep 30th →
Tegh & Adel Poursamadi - Toward The Vast Mountain رو به کوه بزرگ
a closer listenFollow “Gholam-Hossein Sa’edi’s The Mourners of Bayal (1964) remains one of the defining works of modern Iranian literature. Across eight interconnected…” on Sep 29th →
Tasgeelat Al-Husni - تسجيلات الحُسني - Spacetune - سبيستيون
a closer listenFollow “Shell and Core takes its title from the unfinished concrete structures that have become fixtures of the Syrian landscape, and…” on Sep 28th →
Adriano Zanni - Warosha
a closer listenFollow “Thematically, Post Dub Cities hearkens back to Future Sound of London’s Dead Cities, while tonally it recalls Murcof’s Rememberanza. Adriano…” on Sep 27th →