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1 week ago | 
merrygoroundmagazine.com | Aly Eleanor
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2 weeks ago | 
pitchfork.com | Aly Eleanor
The title of Macie Stewart’s second solo album, When the Distance Is Blue, is borrowed from Rebecca Solnit’s essay “The Blue of Distance,” a meditation on longing. The Chicago composer and multi-instrumentalist’s album, an eight-part suite of improvisational chamber ambient, is tinted by the limpid colors of an in-between space, peering across absence without attempting to resolve or subdue it.
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3 weeks ago | 
spectrumculture.com | Aly Eleanor
One could be forgiven for guessing that Lonely People with Power, the sixth album from American blackgaze pioneers Deafheaven, is a reaction. Every move in their ever-deepening catalog has felt more like accumulation than pivoting, even as sounds shift and oscillate. Much hullabaloo was made of the band’s last release, the shoegaze- and clean vocal-filled Infinite Granite.
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3 weeks ago | 
pitchfork.com | Aly Eleanor
It’s terrifying to be on the brink, staring into a convergence of hazy future and transient past. On their fourth solo record, Brooklyn sound artist and composer OHYUNG offers a missive from this sort of threshold, an in-between place. You Are Always on My Mind shifts away from the blown-out noise rap and pensive atmospheres of their prior discography and instead embraces sample-heavy pop—synthesizing their kaleidoscopic impulses into a pulsing examination of memory and self-transformation.
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3 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Aly Eleanor
“I have never felt so ashamed to be onstage. If I never see you again, it's too soon!”: When John McLaughlin laid into Jaco Pastorius after an onstage meltdownIn 1979, three legendary jazz musicians united as the Trio Of Doom - and it was a combustible mix to say the least. The trio consisted of guitarist …
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1 month ago | 
pitchfork.com | Aly Eleanor
On Every Video Without Your Face, Every Sound Without Your Name, Lucy Liyou coalesces years of heartache into an unadorned collection of songs that burn with fervor. Her diaphanous soundscapes are backdrops for supplication, requests for witness and acceptance. Starting with text-to-speech mosaics made as a teen (her debut, Welfare, was released on Klein’s label), Liyou swiftly fabricated her own amalgamation of electroacoustic collage and theatrical sound poetry.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Aly Eleanor
This kitten's reaction to the violin is just too cuteEver wondered what kind of music your cat would make if they had opposable thumbs and a little more ambition? While most cats are content to knock …
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1 month ago | 
spectrumculture.com | Aly Eleanor
The best way to follow an apocalyptic space western about asteroid miners is to sit down and face the music. The fourth album from Indiana “stoner emo” lodestone Cloakroom finds the band staring at the raging doom happening in plain sight rather than wandering through a not-so-distant galactic fiction. Since their 2017 scene classic Time Well, the trio has broadened their approach to include broader concepts and shorter tracks.
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1 month ago | 
spectrumculture.com | Aly Eleanor
Is it still regression if it was voluntary? British producer and singer Shygirl has spent the last year or so longing for a time machine back to the days of youth, when pop music was electronic and electronic was neon. Since releasing her exquisite debut full-length Nymph in 2022, she has kept her eyes and ears honed in on the past. Her series of Club Shy EPs relish in resurgent trash nostalgia, getting lost in a delirious haze of indoor cigarette smoke and pungent perfume.
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1 month ago | 
spectrumculture.com | Aly Eleanor
There is light inside everything. Entombed in the soul is a bioluminescence, seeping through the hard-shelled exterior into the cosmic immediacy of our surroundings.
