MJ Guider On…
Don’t Get It Twisted
Don’t Get It Twisted by Delores Galore Words MELISSA GUION Music and I had an uneasy year together. The things I was most personally drawn to reflected much of what was in the air: heaviness, frustration, anger, anxiety. There are a handful of records that came out of that attraction that I really loved, and […]
Eluvium On…
Playing Piano For Dad
Words MATTHEW COOPER Playing Piano For Dad (Tasty Morsels) was released digitally in 2016, but a small vinyl pressing finally arrived in 2021. The album was a go-to listen for me for a bit. It’s simple and direct in its title; nonetheless I think what was particularly enjoyable for me was the indirectness of the […]
Frankie Rose On…
Sustainable Hours
Words FRANKIE ROSE There were a few records that I listened to this year on repeat. Most of it was very ambient type of stuff for whatever reason. I’m really in love with the Sustainable Hours record by Nozomu Motsumoto. It was originally made as soundtrack for an art installation and I adore it. It’s extremely […]
Resina Shares the
Songs That Shaped
Her Speechless Album
Photography PAWEL ZANIO Good luck trying to wrap your head around Speechless (130701), the spellbound album Resina quietly released at the tail end of 2021. While it’s rooted in classical music, there’s something truly alien about most of her tracks — a ripple in the space-time continuum that’ll rattle your sense of what’s truly going […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]