Brooklyn Vegan Shares The New Innocence Mission Video
Brooklyn Vegan has the video for “This Thread Is A Green Street,” the new single from the innocence mission. The song will be featured on the band’s new album, Midwinter Swimmers, coming in November. “The video for ‘This Thread Is A Green Street’ was animated by the band’s Karen Peris, who used those ideas of sewing, stitching together backgrounds […]
New Music From Daskal
On Obsidian (Selected Dance Scores), Raw Tapes artist Daskal has compiled his best work into one gorgeous, meditative ambient masterpiece – giving new life to compositions originally written to score performances by the Los Angeles Dance Project, Royal Danish Ballet, Batsheva Dance Company, and more. “As an album, the music tells a new story,” A story of my own inner world,” […]
Spill Covers The “Almost Mythical” Afterimage
Spill Magazine has coverage of Afterimage‘s Faces To Hide and writes, “Throughout rock history, there are a number of bands that existed for a very short time but have an almost mythical reputation. Afterimage is one such band… Faces To Hide serves as a time capsule of a city that no longer exists. Los Angeles is, of course, still there but […]
RNZ Hails The “Buoyant” New LP From Laurie Anderson
RNZ likes the new album from the legendary Laurie Anderson. “Amelia Earhart‘s story is obviously one with a tragic ending, and when the album reaches that moment, Anderson and ANOHNI invest it with plenty of drama,” the site writes. “But Amelia is, no pun intended, a buoyant listen, and more celebratory than sad. It’s also proof that Laurie Anderson remains an artist […]
Shatter The Standards Recommends Masok’s New LP
Shatter The Standards recommends the new LP from Masok, Challenge Accepted, that’s currently at radio via Raw Tapes. “As you listen, you can’t help but move your body to the rhythm. The quartet has always refused to be pigeonholed into a specific genre, and with Challenge Accepted, they’ve created a unique blend of sounds that will keep you dancing. You […]
Atwood Calls The New Leif Vollebekk Single “Sweet Bliss”
Atwood Magazine calls “Peace of Mind (Evening),” the new single from Leif Vollebekk, “sweet bliss channeled into soul-stirring sound… a dreamy reverie basking in the glow of intimate connection; of the kind of nirvana, tranquility, and serenity that comes mostly in bits and spurts, fleeting glimpses and passing glances.” Another version of the song will appear on Vollebekk’s forthcoming […]
New Music From Afterimage
Independent Project Records and the surviving members of underground ‘80s post-punk band Afterimage have announced the upcoming release of a 22-track retrospective compilation including all of the early era Afterimage’s studio recordings, plus demos and live tracks from performances at now legendary spots such as Whisky a Go Go and Al’s Bar. Faces to Hide proves as scathing, urgent, taut, angular […]
Masok Shares Video For “Self Help”
Masok has released a video for the song “self help,” from their new album Challenge Accepted out now via Raw Tapes. It’s a fun and colorful clip that finds the band interacting with an array of cut out paper images. Check out the video here, and get started with the album now!
Laurie Anderson Gets Knight Written
Knight Writers, the student news site of Robinson High School in Tampa, FL, recently reviewed the new Laurie Anderson LP. “The sound and feel of the album cannot be conveyed over text,” reviewer Winter Carbajal contends. “Amelia is a melancholic, disturbing rendition of what was a hazy event to begin with; this is easily Anderson’s most unnerving, artistically moving […]
Binnie Klein, aka In These Trees, Discusses Collaboration With Americana Highways
The Quiver, from In These Trees and Tartie, is a truly collaborative effort. We’ve mentioned several times that the album was born out of the creative synergy between radio host Binnie Klein, and Tartie, an Australian musician who initially connected with Klein while reaching out for airplay. In a recent interview with Americana Highways, Klein talks about […]
Laurie Anderson’s New LP Is “Unexpectedly Soothing,” Writes The Quietus
The Quietus is effusive about the new album from Laurie Anderson, which is based on the flight journals of Amelia Earhart. “Anderson wrangles the joy of discovery and achievement in a balance with the foreboding of an ending we already know,” the site writes. “String arrangements are the primary medium of Amelia, on a spectrum from Anderson’s solo viola […]
Binnie Klein (In These Trees) Gets In Depth With Stereo Embers
Alex Green of The Stereo Embers Podcast has an interesting conversation with Binnie Klein, also known as In These Trees, who has a career as a psychotherapist and a background as a writer of boxing history. With Australian musician Tartie and the producer David Baron, Klein crafted the LP The Quiver that is currently at radio. It recently got a strong review on Stereo Embers’ Dave Cantrell, […]
New Music From War Strings
Die By Light, War Strings’ fourth album, is a collection of pop excursions, skewed by Andrew Stogel’s reserved delivery and eerie arrangements. It’s an unsettled picture of searching for intimacy. Uncertainty, captured through polar opposite entries; elated and despairing, wavering then devoted. Fast fluttery tempos, angelic string lines and a dreary sheen help to blur intense sentiments that […]
Gold Flake Paint Draws Attention To the “Gleaming” New Single From the innocence mission
About the innocence mission, Gold Flake Paint writes, “What I like to think is that they make these perfect songs in perfect harmony, in their own time and space, then retreat to nature, to tend to a garden, to watch the world grow around them before quietly wandering back into modernity to release whatever it is they’ve been […]
FLOOD Digs The “Relatable Yet Unusual World” Of Laurie Anderson’s Amelia
“Laurie Anderson works with an immense, colorful palate on her new LP Amelia—one radically different from her more confined and intimate projects,” writes FLOOD in its new review of the LP, out now via Nonesuch. According to FLOOD, “Anderson—a true master of FX-driven suspense and verbal disguise—filters hard fact and flighty perspective into one tight, 35-minute audio-verité package, knitting together […]
The Ladies Of… Drop “Dead Naming” Video
The Ladies Of… have a new video, and it’s dangerous. “Dead Naming In Your Gold Voice” has a rattlesnake, lots of cash, and lots of fire. The track is from Coming Out Of Our Tenderness, which is at radio now. Offbeat Magazine says it “hits the sweet spot between lovingly-crafted throwback and exuberant sleaze.” See the new video here. See […]
New Music From Masok
Masok is a four-piece future soul band based in Tel Aviv and comprised of Jenny Penkin, Noam Havkin, Tal Kohavi, and Omri Shani. Taking the front, Penkin is a singer-songwriter whose range goes between R&B, soul, and Hip-Hop and her warm voice and smooth phrases bring a fresh color. Accompanying her is Havkin, who’s in charge of production and […]
Clash Praises Laurie Anderson’s “Towering” New Album
“In Laurie Anderson’s hands,” Clash Magazine writes, “we come closer to understanding what possesses people through history to reach for outsized achievements, through the accomplishment of one of her own. Amelia is this a towering work of artistic endeavour and creative genius which comfortably ranks as one of Anderson’s most definitive statements yet.” The site has a […]
Leif Vollebekk Announces US Tour
Leif Vollebekk, whose new album Revelation is out later this month, has scheduled some US tour dates. This will be the first time Vollebekk has been down to the US for shows in a while, and it follows a trip to Europe. Singles “Peace Of Mind (Evening),” “Moondog,” and “Southern Star” are at radio now from Secret […]
Laurie Anderson Talks To The New York Times
The “eternally innovative” Laurie Anderson was recently interviewed by Jon Pareles of The New York Times, who says Anderson’s new album Amelia is like a “vintage radio drama crossed with an oratorio — or maybe it’s an orchestral podcast.” The album is at radio now from Nonesuch Records and is going for NACC debuts this week. Hear the NYT interview here.
