Album of the Week

Mike Hadreas as Perfume Genius makes confoundingly beautiful music.

What a year.

Watch out for the quiet ones.

Because of a Flower is the stunning sophomore release from sonic sorceress Ana Roxanne.

Strange days have found us. As such, my brain has been craving a tickle by the off kilter and The Silence delivered with the psychedelic trip that is Electric Meditations.

Sometimes words fail to capture my mood and this week was a perfect time for wordless reflection.

Adrianne Lenker holed up in a one-room cabin in the woods of Western Massachusetts last Spring, sat down in front of a tape deck or Walkman and recorded two albums-worth of songs and instrumentals. The […]

SPAZA is a loose collective of musicians based in Johannesburg, South Africa — the idea of SPAZA is to jam around a concept rather than to coalesce into a fully-fledged band.

Metz is a good old-fashioned trio — guitar & vocals (Alex Edkins), bass (Chris Slorac), and drums (Hayden Menzies) — who play high-energy, raucous punk-derived noise.

Pipe organist and composer Anna von Hausswolff traveled to the Sacro Bosco (“Sacred Grove”), a park in a wooded valley beneath the castle of Orsini in Bomarzo, Italy, and was so taken with its 16th […]

I admit to having a near fanatical desire to focus on new releases for the Album of the Week. And when I say new, I mean just released.