Album of the Week

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.

Mystic Sisters is City of Caterpillar’s second studio album, coming some twenty years after their debut.

The wait is over. Lucrecia Dalt’s ¡Ay!, released today on RVNG Intl., shoots to the top of my favorite releases of 2022 like a rocket, extending well beyond and into the stars.

On Pieces Of Driftwood, New Zealand outsider Maxine Funke collects music from compilations and non-album singles along with new songs for a kind of mini anthology of her quirky folk fare.