On Warmer Than Gold, he invokes colors as an emotional shortcut, mentioning “neon glow” and “hundred shades of blues” on “Out of This Place.” But the melodies aren’t strong enough to excuse Cook’s ...

Five years after its ostensible farewell gig, the Taiwanese duo builds on its drone-doom foundation, incorporating shorter ...

Conceptually, Max Richter's The Blue Notebooks-- German-born composer mixes contemporary classical compositions with electronic elements in a dreamscapy journalogue featuring excerpts from Kafka's The ...

Pulling from doom, black metal, and shoegaze, the group brings the palette of heavy music to the perspective of a singer-songwriter’s most intimate revelations.

The singer’s debut channels Roy Orbison, David Bowie, and erstwhile California greats—but even his tremendous voice can’t ...

The Animal Collective member’s first solo album is a personal, psychedelic trip indulging his fascination with the hurdy-gurdy.

Duckart’s second album, Death in the Business of Whaling, further develops his creative identity by adding a little mystery, ...

What might feel most uncanny about Completely Necessary is the way the anthology anticipates waves of music that would follow ...

Matmos’ Drew Daniel continues to probe questions of community and solidarity on his latest LP—this time, trading electronic tropes for acoustic timbres informed by chamber music and film composition.

In the opening title track of their 1984 debut, A Walk Across the Rooftops, the Blue Nile present a bird’s-eye view of their journey. In a stately baritone that occasionally loses its composure as a ...

Both the lyrics and production of My Ghosts Go Ghost feel more conversational and off-cuff than anything the duo have ...

On his most recent album, EL NUEVO SONIDO, he perfects the formula he began developing on previous projects, like the more ...