Album of the Week

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

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.

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

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.

My father loved jazz guitar.

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

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

Dreamy.

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

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

Music as spirit guide.

Sometimes I think I did but I didn’t.

Moin is Raime.

We have San Francisco-based Tompkins Square to thank for bringing us this previously unreleased live solo set from Mal Waldron.

We’ve talked about Guatemalan-born, Mexico City-based cellist, vocalist, composer and multi-instrumentalist Mabe Fratti before, notably her collaboration with Mexico City-based sound artist Concepción Huerta on 2021’s stunning Estática.