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Jeremiah Chiu &
Marta Sofia Honer
Discuss Their Dreamy
Åland Islands Album
Photography JOYCE KIM We like to think of ourselves as intrepid travelers. It’s rare that a record actually makes us want to immediately book a ticket to a place we’d never seen before, though. To the point where we’re looking at a calendar and our bank account, wondering how we’re gonna make this work. That’s the […]
Vanessa Wagner
Tackles a Tense
Caroline Shaw Track
Vanessa Wagner has revealed the latest single from her looming album Study of the Invisible (InFiné Music, March 25th): “Gustave Le Grey,” a prickly Caroline Shaw piece that lurks and leaps in the shadows for nearly 15 minutes. Here’s what the French pianist had to say about it and several other Study of the Invisible […]
Zimoun Lends
Hour-Long Pieces to
Guitar Studies Set
Room40 has announced a special book/CD celebrating the sound work of Swiss artist Zimoun. Namely the ones that revolve around riffs. Due out May 6th, Guitar Studies I-III features three experimental pieces that hover around the 60-minute mark. Since the compositions are too long to fit onto one CD, they’re available in full digitally and in tightly […]
Brainwaltzera Gets
Personal on ‘ITSAME’
As impersonal as IDM (intelligent dance music? really?) is on paper, its reluctant section within dance shops has long starred artists as moody and melancholic as a more far-more-straightforward singer-songwriter. Case in point: the ever-elusive Brainwaltzera. While he’s remained more anonymous than most since his self-released Marzipan EP, the itinerant producer immediately struck a chord […]
James Heather Unveils
Latest Piano-Led Single
Photo ÖZGE CÖNE Like most of us, James Heather has been through a lot over the past few years — enough to send him searching for greater meaning within music itself. Namely the piano-led pieces that ripple through his new record Invisible Forces, a heady listen that’s bound to help recalibrate all of us when […]
QRTR Shares Restless
Daedelus Remix
Fresh off its 10th anniversary festivities last fall, Dome of Doom has linked two of its top artists up for a total pass-the-baton track. Streaming exclusively below and dropping on major DSPs tomorrow, the Daedelus remix of “Nossa” takes the QRTR production in a twitchy new direction that builds on the strengths of both parties […]
Martha Skye Murphy & Maxwell Sterling Make Us a ‘Music For Airports’ Mixtape
Photography PETER EASON DANIELS Seeing as how most of us are still traveling in place — Zooming through time zones without leaving our living rooms — more than two years into the pandemic, we can’t think of a better time than now to experience Distance on Ground. The byproduct of several bold improv session between […]
Hot Chip Reveal
Nina Simone Remix
Photo JACK ROBINSON Verve has unveiled the latest exclusive remix from its upcoming Nina Simone compilation Feeling Good. Streaming below, along with a previously released pounder from Robert Hood’s family matters project Floorplan, “Be My Husband” is run through the mid-tempo ringer by perennial s/t fav Hot Chip, who appear to now be ranking high […]