A Magazine for Craftmakers
Sebastian Plano
Shares the Stories
Behind His New Album
Photography MATTHEW THORNE Words SEBASTIAN PLANO In short, Save Me Not (Mercury KX) focuses on the alternate reality I enter when I create, how this world becomes more bearable than the real world, and how I don’t (hypothetically) want to be saved from being lost in that world forever. It was recorded entirely at my […]
Xeno & Oaklander
Announce New Album
Xeno & Oaklander have unveiled their first batch of new material since 2019’s Hypnos album. Due out October 22nd through Dais Records, Vi/deo was sparked by secluded pandemic sessions in Liz Wendelbo and Sean McBride’s Southern Connecticut studio. According to a press release, “the context of isolation, streaming, and remote dreaming seeped into their chemistry, […]
Flaty Channels
Generative Art,
Rammellzee’s Graffiti
Photo MASHA DEMIANOVA Flaty has unveiled the first taste of his most ambitious project yet. Streaming exclusively below, “rotation—60” is part of an audiovisual piece the Moscow producer developed in tandem with his new album RAILZ. According to the ANWO STUDIO founder, it was loosely inspired by concepts that are much bigger than the music […]
Lo Recordings Reveals
Spaciousness Volume 2
Lo Recordings founder Jon Tye (Ocean Moon, Seahawks) has lined up another round of exclusives for his Spaciousness series, including tracks from Suzanne Ciani, Don Slepian, JD Emmanuel, Ariel Kalma, JQ, and Mary Lattimore. Due out August 6th, Spaciousness Volume 2 continues to “explore the connections, the overlaps, the roots, and the future of a […]
Joy Orbison Announces
First Official Mixtape,
Still Slipping Vol. 1
Photo ROSIE MARKS After more than a decade of sporadic EPs and singles — including his iconic breakthrough “Hyph Mngo” — Joy Orbison has finally unveiled his first proper full-length. And guess what? It’s not quite an album. We wouldn’t have it any other way. Due out August 13th through XL Recordings, still slipping vol.1 […]
Information_Age
Show Us the Darker
Side of Italo Disco
Words JOSEPH D. ROWLAND I won’t profess to have loads of cool factoids or massive in-depth knowledge about the history behind any of the cuts I’ve chosen here. Frankly, many of the artists and producers involved in the expansive genre dubbed ‘Italo Disco’ are mostly a mystery to me. Quite a few acts seem to […]
Grouper’s Latest
Album Looks Back
At the Past 15 Years
Photo GORDON ASHWORTH Liz Harris has announced her latest Grouper LP, “an album about respite, and the coast, poetically and literally. How we frame ourselves in a landscape, how in turn it frames ourselves; memories and experiences carried forward mapping our connection to place.” Due out October 22nd through her longtime label Kranky, Shade was […]
Camille Rose Garcia Looks
Back At Her Short-Lived
Punk Band The Real Minx
While she’s well-known within the art world for her fantastic paintings and illustrations, there was a time when all Camille Rose Garcia wanted to do was play in a punk band. The Real Minx fit the bill perfectly, setting Garcia, Paula Boldyn, Allie Gottlieb, and Lynn Hobensack off on a mission as informed by The Bangles and […]
Eluvium Goes the
Lost Highway Route With
His “Virga II” Video
If you’re anything like us (see: our side hustle self | centered), you probably spent the past year searching for ambient music capable of recalibrating the rough patches of the Pandemic Age. One surefire solution was Matthew Cooper’s latest Eluvium LP. While it was technically released just before things the world lost its plot, Virga […]
Pessimist Unveils
Stigma Alias,
Benefit Album
Pessimist has revealed a new solo outlet that builds on the blunted, urgent beats of his Boreal Massif project with Loop Faction. Due out August 13th through his No Fuss imprint, Too Long is the deeply personal debut of Stigma, a trip-hop take full of “texture, feel and tone.” In an effort to recede into […]
Lauren Doss Leans Into the
Liminal Space of “Integer”
Photo MARCUS HESSENBERG Here’s something that’ll put your mind at ease as we head into the weekend: Spaciousness 2, Lo Recordings’ latest ambient compilation, has finally dropped across all major DSPs. Just in time for Bandcamp Day, no less. With that in mind, we’re psyched to share an exclusive from the audiovisual artist Lauren Doss […]
Khruangbin
Turn the Tables On
Mordechai Remixes
Photography POONEH GHANA Khruangbin has always had a strong connection to DJ culture, from the Thai-funk nod in their name to their string of releases on the largely mix-led UK label LateNightTales. With that in mind, it’s merely been a matter of time before the Houston-based trio would devote an entire record to hand-selected remixes. […]