Ears to the ground, it’s an electric storm! New York’s eclectic and experimental electronic musician Arp, aka Alexis Georgopoulos, has dropped pure energy into our ears with his album New Pleasures, an irresistible …

Japanese folk-artist Ichiko Aoba’s soundtrack for the 2022 film Amiko is a minimalist manifestation of the joys and pains of childhood, where you, a child, feel infinitely in all directions but are always told you feel less than adults …

I’m very afraid of a world that actively chokes out our awareness. Most of us experience culture these days primarily through algorithms that reflect ourselves back to us without consideration of the costs …

Beginnings are the best. First time seeing the stars in the night sky, your first kisses, the first time you realize that someone else completely gets you as you are, no acting required. What happens if …

The simplest things in life are the most elusive. Angel Olsen sings the tragedy of this as clearly as a bell in her sixth studio album Big Time, which reads like an old-school country album …

Sweet and salty, Berlin-based producer Konduku’s Gelgit EP is a tasty two-part dish ready for the dance. The build on the opening track ‘Gelgit’ is like walking in time toward a spring, fixed in place to the floor at …

A seated meditation in the microscopic world of the living, Netherlands-based producer upsammy’s Placeness Produced EP presents a high sensitivity to subtlety and things often passed by unnoticed. These …