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. […]
Fred und Luna Tap
Peter Kruder, In Flagranti,
Mathew Jonson and More
For Im Remix EP
At the risk of making today sound like Remix Day (see also: this Khruangbin playlist), we’d like to point you towards the newly available Fred und Luna EP Im Remix. Now streaming via Compost Records, it imagines a world where downtempo don Peter Kruder sets the stage for such like-minded left-field producers as Mathew Jonson, […]
BON Link Up With
Laraaji On “Aya”
BON have shared the latest single from their looming Pantheon LP, a weightless exchange of sound waves and abstract ideas with ambient pioneer Laraaji. “‘Aya’ was a track that almost wrote itself,” explains Yerosha Windrich and Alex Morris. “We started making these sounds that sounded like the inflight music to a shuttle docking at a […]
Steve Moore Turns
Up the Tension In
MirrorBoxx Track
Nervous Curtains frontman Sean Kirkpatrick has tapped Steve Moore for a welcome one-off from his new solo project MirrorBoxx. The pairing makes perfect sense when you consider all the overlaps between Kirkpatrick’s cruise-controlled synthcapades and Moore’s own dimly lit dance music as a solo producer and one-half of the horror score / prog duo Zombi. […]