The music of Catalan composer Marina Herlop has an alluring, ancient quality, its sense of old-world mystery complemented by her unconventional musical phrasing, experimental beats, and regular use of made-up language. Most of these elements are present on Herlop’s single “La Alhambra,” from her upcoming album Nekkuja, although this time she sings in Catalan. TheRead More
The detailed liner notes chronicle every painful step and misstep trying to manifest Townshend’s sci-fi dreamworld, accompanied by recordings that reinforce the story. When you listen to the first attempt to record the Life House songs in New York with manager Kit Lambert and compare them to the second attempt with producer Glyn Johns inRead More
A ritual sensibility pervades “Diaries,” a new track by the Polish musician Martyna Basta. The pace is slow, the mood pensive. Her wordless voice floats like incense; the reverb suggests the stone walls of a very old church; she plucks out the song’s rubato zither melody with the care with which one might touch aRead More
When James revisits an idea, which she does a couple of times, each second pass reveals her evolutionary process. “Glitch the System (Glitch Bitch 2)” takes up where “Glitch Bitch,” from her 2019 album For You and I, left off. While the rework keeps the earlier track’s mid-tempo kick and swing, it casts off theRead More
At the beginning of the music video for “Census Designated,” Jane Remover lopes in slow motion down a dirt road, pulling a white cotton tank top off to bare her back to the camera lens. The new single and title track to her upcoming album signals a more stripped-down sound than on her 2021 debut,Read More
It’s now abundantly clear, both in sound and performance, that Tim is really among the best albums ever recorded…ex post facto. It’s the apex of the Mats, how they should have sounded, how they did sound, how they should be remembered sounding. As diverse as it is dynamic, Tim is full of diamond-sharp songs aboutRead More
As critic Hilary Saunders has written, One Night Stand! throws “the party of the century on the eve of destruction.” Six months after its recording, Cooke’s 18-month-old son died in a drowning accident. In October, Cooke was turned away from a Shreveport, Louisiana, hotel in the events that inspired “A Change Is Gonna Come.” TheRead More
Since 2015, Eartheater has specialized in elemental avant-pop songs that span the alienating, insular experiments of 2018’s Irisiri to the folky, operatic meditations of 2020’s Phoenix. In each one, she is a siren waving sailors across turbulent waters, coaxing the listener deeper into her world. Her new album, Powders, smoothes out her roughest edges, blissedRead More
And guess what? It turns out yeule is a very good rock star, a student of the game. In their youth, stifled by Singapore’s conservative society, they escaped into Smashing Pumpkins cassettes and bashed out Pixies songs as part of a band. They filled their 2021 covers album Nuclear War Post X with homespun takesRead More
No One Will Save You wastes no time getting started. After a brief setup, it gets right to the action: a home invasion that’s actually an alien invasion. What follows is an incredibly tense, surprisingly quiet mix of sci-fi and horror, just the thing for a fall evening at home. The movie — which isRead More
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