Jayson Greene

Nov 4, 2024 | hearingthings.co | Jayson Greene

Phil Elverum’s writing deals in constants: The huge Earth, his tiny confusion, the certainty that we will all die. He articulates these ideas in a quiet, conversational voice against music that gently encourages disorientation. Each of his records captures a specific moment in his life, and his work resembles journaling—snapshots of ephemeral mind states. Elverum doesn’t guide you through his music; he accompanies you inside it.

Mar 21, 2024 | pitchfork.com | Jayson Greene

Before Saint Cloud, the scale of Waxahatchee’s music matched the intimate venues it was often found in—living rooms full of friends, small corner stages, crowded basement venues with iffy plumbing. But on her 2020 album, which Katie Crutchfield recently estimated doubled the size of her audience, she burned the fog off of her arrangements and raised her voice. The sound that emerged was closer in spirit to Americana than late-’90s indie rock.

Mar 21, 2024 | flipboard.com | Jayson Greene

GloRilla Announces Her New Song, Shares Release Date And Raunchy Cover ArtFans will be able to hear the song in full next month. After breaking through in 2022 with songs like "Tomorrow 2" and "F.N.F" that eventually made up …

Oct 17, 2023 | pitchfork.com | Jayson Greene

Over my 15-year career as a music critic, I’ve devoted thousands of hours to the art of translating music, imperfectly, into words. Now, thanks to an AI tool from Google called MusicLM, I can translate words, imperfectly, into music. The results can be startling. For fun, I tried feeding in some prompts from Pitchfork’s album reviews. Here are just a few words that a writer recently used to describe a song: “arpeggiated synths and light-up dancefloor grooves.” Simple, right? Effective.

Sep 12, 2023 | pitchfork.com | Jayson Greene

Babe, Terror is the moniker of the São Paulo-based electronic producer Claudio Katz Szynkier, and the woozy, magnetic music he issues under this alias has attracted pockets of influential admirers. In 2010, Four Tet’s Kieran Hebden reworked one of Szynkier’s pieces, “Summertime Our League,” for an EP of the same name.