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Album
In the thick of the early Covid era (mid-2020), Matthew Sage had an idea for a record. Taking advant...
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Yaz Lancaster
At the conceptual core of a distance, intertwined is the notion of storytelling, with traditional fo...
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Christian Kriegeskotte
we are environments for each other is a breathtaking new release nearly 10 years in the making that...
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Michelle Hromin
When I was a kid in the 90s, my parents owned a toy store. It definitely had its perks (collecting P...
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Tristan McKay
On their self-titled debut album, Decoda brings attractive style and artistry to an eclectic mix of...
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Dalanie Harris
In the wake of a recent solar eclipse, contemplating light, its path, and our place in it just feels...
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Connie Li
Picture an electrically charged violin that buzzes and swells as it rotates inside a compressed magn...
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Esteban Meneses
MIZU is an artist who knows how to distill the mosaic process of defining oneself. On her debut reco...
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Yaz Lancaster
We Live the Opposite Daring, the sophomore album from the New York-based vocal sextet Ekmeles, is im...
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Sofía Rocha
There are no overt samples or references to other works in William Brittelle’s Alive in the Electric...
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Christian Kriegeskotte
On Ki moun ou ye, Grammy-nominated musician and composer Nathalie Joachim chronicles the beauty of s...
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Dalanie Harris
comp.01 accomplishes a lot of things that compilation albums often struggle to do: it is unified by...
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Tristan McKay
Composer Joseph Bohigian’s debut album The Water Has Found its Crack is centered around his engageme...
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Clover Nahabedian
Following three albums full of well-trod classical repertoire for cello and piano, Cheng² Duo’s Port...
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Forrest Howell
Artists often comment on the pressure they feel from fans to produce new music and bring freshness a...
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Katie Brown
Linda Catlin Smith Revels in Introverted Confidence with Sensuous, Idiosyncratic Album ‘Dark Flower’
One of my favorite aspects of autumn is the sensation of being wrapped in a warm jacket or bundled u...
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Sofía Rocha
“Hearing sounds of creatures I don’t recognize makes my imagination run wild,” writes pianist...
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
Matana Roberts’ jubilantly experimental new album Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the garden deftly weave...
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A. Kori Hill
Third Coast Percussion’s Between Breaths is another fresh and thought-provoking album in what has be...
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Forrest Howell
“Sugar and spice, and everything nice. That’s what little girls are made of…” or so goes the well-kn...
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Lauren Ishida
Last August, jaimie “Breezy” branch’s death was met with an outpouring of love. The 39-year-old comp...
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Clover Nahabedian
The Harlem Renaissance was a time of artistic and intellectual revival for Black Americans in early-...
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Katie Brown
Released July 28 on Deutsche Grammophon, the Sphinx Virtuosi’s Songs for Our Times is sprawling, con...
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Sofía Rocha
