vocal

  • 2015

    Drone vocalist and tape musician Ian William Craig has a new album called Cradle for the Wanting out today via Recital; here is a preview of three tracks (“Each All in Another All,” “Shipbreaking,” and “Empty, Circle, Tremble”).

  • Wildbirds & Peacedrums return with one of their catchiest efforts yet.

  • darkwave

    Le Vasco EP by Le Vasco Le Vasco is a relatively new and difficult to pin down project. Their self-titled debut EP is available to stream and download for free above via their Bandcamp. One interesting result of the alt-rap scene’s thriving throughout the past couple of years is

  • 2013

    A new track from Norwegian singer-songwriter Jenny Hval. Her next album, Innocence Is Kinky, will be dropping April 19th via Rune Grammofon. “I Called” is an exercise in noisy guitars, passionate singing, and strange vocalizations. Jenny definitely displays a knack for taking familiar rock and pop sounds, but turning them

  • 2012

    Roomful of Teeth by Roomful of Teeth Roomful of Teeth is an experimental choral group founded and directed by Brad Wells a few years ago. Their music makes use of an array of singing techniques. Not only does the group have a strong set of beautiful singing voices, but they’

  • 2012

    Though Holly Herndon’s debut LP doesn’t have much in terms of consistency or length, this sonic experimentalist puts together some extremely interesting soundscapes, techno oddities, and vocal manipulations. WATCH THE REVIEW

  • 2012

    A clean, crisp music video for a fantastic piece of vocal pop from Jessie Ware’s forthcoming debut album, Devotion, which will be out on August 13th via PMR Records. Check the track listing here. While I wasn’t 100% impressed with her vocal contributions on that awesome SBTRKT album

  • Is jazz becoming relevant again? It seems like a bit of a chicken/egg situation right now, but in my life since my friends got into the excellent BBNG2, modern jazz has been sneaking into my listening. “Everytime I See You” is one of these tracks. It’s a great

  • art pop

    Ice Level by Ava Luna Brooklyn’s Ava Luna has been releasing material, as far as I can tell, since about 2009. However, this Ice Level album is the first time I’m hearing of them. I couldn’t ask for a better introduction, too. There are points where the

  • ambient

    mmpsuf is a Lithuanian electronic music duo someone turned me on to via the TND Facebook page. I breathe a sigh of relief every morning I wake up and see we’re still allowed to share music with one another on the Internet. Back on topic: The duo has a