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3 weeks ago | 
spectrumculture.com | Aly Eleanor
Since the start, Kali Malone has sought sonic liberation. Her discography is built upon caverns and valleys, surprises and meditations. The natural is shuffled in with the pristine; the sacred and personal are completely intertwined. Before her breakthrough release in 2019, The Sacrificial Code, she experimented with the hallmarks of drone—synths, sine waves, electroacoustic manipulations and, of course, the organ.
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3 weeks ago | 
spectrumculture.com | Aly Eleanor
In their 2003 essay “Kinaesthetic Empathy,” Jaana Parviainen, a senior researcher at Finland’s Tampere University, describes the titular theory as a “placing of [the self] ‘inside’ another’s experience.” By extending insight to physical motion, kinaesthetic empathy can enable greater mutual understanding in practice—discovery as “primordial movement experience.” Through her prismatic art pop, Brooklyn’s Kinlaw attempts to meld the corporeal and the sonic, letting her movement guide her music.
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1 month ago | 
merrygoroundmagazine.com | Aly Eleanor
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1 month ago | 
post-trash.com | Aly Eleanor
by Aly Eleanor (@purityolympics)Nearly every Whelpwisher release on Bandcamp contains some version of the phrase “All sound(s) (by) Ben Grigg” in their description. Upon listening to any of his songs, it bears clarifying that this is a one-man studio band, not a power pop outfit beamed in from any of the last four decades.
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1 month ago | 
post-trash.com | Aly Eleanor
by Aly Eleanor (@purityolympics)Alexandra Zakharenko has always been restless. The St. Petersburg-born, Berlin-based artist burrows deep into sound as Perila. They rustle with field recordings, spectral vocal traces, and the physicality of space, even as pieces venture into different territories, simultaneously processed and emotional. 2024 was a banner year for the often prolific Zakharenko.
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1 month 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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1 month 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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1 month 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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1 month 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.
