Chris Ingalls

1 week ago | popmatters.com | Chris Ingalls

interius/exterius greyfade The latest release from Joseph Branciforte‘s greyfade label doesn’t stray at all from the concepts of previous albums in its catalog. Founded in 2019, the label, according to its official website, “takes as its basic premise the idea of a music release as a complete conceptual universe, integrating sound, compositional architecture, visual design, and text into a single object worthy of sustained engagement”.

1 week ago | popmatters.com | Chris Ingalls

Flesh + Blood E.G. / Atco-Reprise Roxy Music are, perhaps by design, a nearly impossible group to categorize. Bursting onto the scene in 1972 with their self-titled debut album, they blended progressive rock, glam, elements of soul, experimental tone poems, and romantic pop, creating a fascinating hybrid that drew influences from David Bowie, King Crimson, and the Velvet Underground.

1 week ago | popmatters.com | Chris Ingalls

Heathen Spirituals Joyful Noise Thor Harris has become a legend for his multi-instrumentalist work with artists like Swans, Shearwater, Bill Callahan, Devendra Banhart, and Shahzad Ismaily. A Renaissance man of sorts, he’s also a master carpenter, plumber, and woodworker, in addition to being a staunch advocate for mental health with a strong and vibrant social media presence.

2 weeks ago | popmatters.com | Chris Ingalls

E Shelter Press Born in Australia, raised in Seattle, and currently based in New York, singer/songwriter/pianist Eliana Glass learned to sing and play piano by ear as a child. Hiding underneath her parents’ piano, she felt moved and inspired. “I felt protected under the wooden beams,” she explained in the press materials for her debut album, E. “I remember looking up at the legs, wires, and foot pedals and seeing the instrument in a new way—everything suddenly everted.

3 weeks ago | popmatters.com | Chris Ingalls

HausLive 4 Hausu Mountain “We’re playing this music that I made on a record called Music for Four Guitars,” says Bill Orcutt in between songs on HausLive 4. “That record is 30 minutes; this show is an hour, so we’re improvising.” Orcutt‘s matter-of-fact explanation is admirable in its self-deprecation, but the music that comes before and after those words is thunderous, menacing, and revelatory.