Music

Let’s think about the films The Wolverine and Tarkovsky’s Stalker. Both are movies, yet the experience of watching could not be more different.

Anna & Elizabeth’s The Invisible Comes to Us is a menagerie of sonic delight.

Stripped bare to the bone.

Composer and trumpeter jaimie branch died from an accidental overdose at age 39, just before this album was done and I mourn the loss of such a unique and compelling voice as though we were best friends.

Bordering on too beautiful, Julie Byrne’s The Greater Wings, released on Ghostly International last month, is instead perfectly balanced on the edge.

The older we get, the more difficult it becomes not to compare new things to things we already know. I view this as a kind of curse. A disease.

Covers can be tricky. My perfect balance between original and redo finds no set formula but one commonality among the covers I love is listening to the new brings the old along with it, like the presence of a dear departed friend.

Ana Roxanne (see Because of A Flower) and DJ Python’s (Brian Piñeyr) collaboration saw its roots take hold in NYC in 2020 during lockdown as they drove around the outskirts of NYC, listening to Telegram by Björk, HTRK, Portishead, all manner of melancholy acoustic indie […]