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Album of the Week: ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT | “Darling The Dawn”

May 26, 2023 Michael Lavorgna

Blurring the lines between noise and ecstasy,  ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT’s debut album “Darling The Dawn”, released on Constellation Records last month, is a trip(py) worth taking.

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Album of the Week: Nabihah Iqbal | DREAMER

May 19, 2023 Michael Lavorgna

Healing.

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Album of the Week: Lesley Mok | The Living Collection

May 12, 2023 Michael Lavorgna

Genre fluid.

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Download of the Week: Lucinda Chua | YIAN

May 5, 2023 Michael Lavorgna

“We must listen to poets.” Gaston Bachelard

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Album of the Week: Lankum | False Lankum

April 28, 2023 Michael Lavorgna

Dirges, drones, death, and doom can be oddly uplifting.

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Album of the Week: boygenius | the record

April 21, 2023 Michael Lavorgna

Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker, and Lucy Ducas are boygenius and that alone was enough information for me to know this record would end up here.

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Album of the Week: Debby Friday | GOOD LUCK

April 7, 2023 Michael Lavorgna

Industrial funk with badass grunt.

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Album of the Week: Lana Del Rey | Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd

March 31, 2023 Michael Lavorgna

Is Pop a dirty word?

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Album of the Week: Kelly Lee Owens | LP.8.2

March 24, 2023 Michael Lavorgna

“abstract industrial beauty”

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Album of the Week: Lia Kohl | The Ceiling Reposes

March 17, 2023 Michael Lavorgna

You had me at cello.

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Album of the Week: Sorry | Anywhere But Here

March 10, 2023 Michael Lavorgna

Sorry’s album Anywhere But Here has been bringing a smile to my face and twisted skip to my step since its release last year.

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Album of the Week: Model/Actriz | Dogsbody

March 3, 2023 Michael Lavorgna

Manic energy.

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Album of the Week: BIG|BRAVE | nature morte

February 24, 2023 Michael Lavorgna

Howl.

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Album of the Week: The Ephemeron Loop | Psychonautic Escapism

February 17, 2023 Michael Lavorgna

“a synaesthetic acid bath”

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Album of the Week: Meg Baird | Furling

February 10, 2023 Michael Lavorgna

A few moments into Meg Baird’s Furling and you’ll want to roll up in its shimmering beauty and stay long after the record ends.

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Album of the Week: Shabaka and the Ancestors | We Are Sent Here By History

February 3, 2023 Michael Lavorgna

We Are Sent Here By History was released in 2020 but it only recently landed in Barn. And I thank my lucky stars.

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Album of the Week: Kali Malone | Does Spring Hide Its Joy

January 27, 2023 Michael Lavorgna

I try, I really do, to pick music that my dear friend Stephen Mejias has not covered in his weekly #NewMusicFriday column because there’s so much great new music I don’t want to make it seem otherwise. Sometimes, an exception is made.

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Album of the Week: Babehoven | Light Moving Time

January 20, 2023 Michael Lavorgna

I fell for Babehoven’s Sunk EP, released last March, and their debut LP Light Moving Time digs in even deeper.

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Album of the Week: Oren Ambarchi | Shebang

January 13, 2023 Michael Lavorgna

It’s hard not to believe that our connections to certain music are nothing more than chance encounters that occur in transitory moments, flickering like a projector with missing slides until something clicks.

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Album of the Week: Jeff Parker | Forfolks

January 6, 2023 Michael Lavorgna

My father loved jazz guitar.

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Album of the Week: Richard Dawson | The Ruby Cord

December 30, 2022 Michael Lavorgna

Outsider British folk troubadour Richard Dawson makes music to the beat of his own drummer.

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Album of the Week: Rat Heart Ensemble | A Blues

December 23, 2022 Michael Lavorgna

A Blues is Boomkat‘s Album of the Year. Why?

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Album of the Week: Antonina Nowacka | Lamunan

December 16, 2022 Michael Lavorgna

Dreamy.

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December 9, 2022 Michael Lavorgna

Without music, hifi is a prop. Pep up your step with some great new music! 42 from ’22.

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Album of the Week: Alex G | God Save The Animals

December 2, 2022 Michael Lavorgna

Kindness. Cruelty. Seems like an easy choice yet some people make the wrong one over and over and over.

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Album of the Week: Sarah Davachi: Two Sisters

November 25, 2022 Michael Lavorgna

Music as spirit guide.

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