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Deepest Currents is a Portland, Oregon-based music website, focusing on new releases and general reviews, as well as cultural events happening around the Pacific Northwest. Genre coverage varies widely, highlighting everything from indie rock to experimental. Navigate to the "About Us" tab for more information and the "Contact" tab to reach out. To browse what has been written already, scan this page, visit the "New Music" or "Features" tabs, or use the search function.
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Album of the Week - Andrew Wasylyk - Fugitive Light and Themes of Consolation
Andrew Wasylyk is a composer, but also a geographer and preservationist of sorts. Hailing from Scotland, he writes music influenced by memo
Nathan Yoder
Sep 8, 2020
Album Preview - Niksen - Invisible City
Niksen is a Portland-based improvisational duo comprised of multi-instrumentalist Derek Hunter Wilson (a good friend of this site), and harp
Nathan Yoder
Sep 2, 2020
Album Preview - numün - voyage au soleil
numün is a supergroup of sorts - a collective sharing an interest in capturing the sonic textures of interplanetary travel. On their concep
Nathan Yoder
Sep 1, 2020
Album of the Week - Max Ananyev - Midday
Often times, ambient music consumers tie the genre to settling dusk, quiet nighttime, or perhaps even early morning hours before the world w
Nathan Yoder
Aug 31, 2020
Album of the Week - Eli Winter - Unbecoming
Eli Winter's Unbecoming opens with one of the best songs of the year - a 23-minute freewheeling John Fahey jam in which the young guitarist
Nathan Yoder
Aug 24, 2020
Album of the Week - Black Noi$e - OBLIVION
Detroit producer Black Noise's OBLIVION plays like a compilation, his trademark distorted loops and samples playing underneath 11 different
Nathan Yoder
Aug 17, 2020
Album of the Week - Tkay Maidza - Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 2
Maidza, a Zimbabwean-via-Austrialia rapper, has been making music for a few years now, but her first release from 4AD is a revelation. Citi
Nathan Yoder
Aug 10, 2020
Album Preview - Varsity Star - That's Something
Both jazz and electronic music are genres which boast quite a bit of stylistic diversity within their respective boundaries. One commonalit
Nathan Yoder
Aug 6, 2020
Album Preview - Rinnovare - Aperturia
Aperturia, the title of modern classical/ambient composer Matteo Neufeld's new EP translates to "opening," which is apt, as each of the four
Nathan Yoder
Aug 5, 2020
Album Preview - Tapes and Topographies - A Pulse of Durations
Todd Gautreau, who composes under the moniker Tapes and Topographies, is a prolific ambient artist specializing in the cultivation of cinema
Nathan Yoder
Aug 4, 2020
Album of the Week - Land of Talk - Indistinct Conversations
Land of Talk has been around for a good while, but the Canadian musicians are self-described slow-burners. This subdued approach to release
Nathan Yoder
Aug 3, 2020
Album of the Week - Slow Meadow - By the Ash Tree
Comprised of an intro, an outro, two reworks, and one new song, Texan composer Matt Kidd pares back the walls of sound he built on 2019's Ha
Nathan Yoder
Jul 27, 2020
Album of the Week - Tomotsugu Nakamura - Literature
The Books were pioneers when it came to cobbling together glitchy electroacoustic compositions, often with a wryly silly and irreverent skew
Nathan Yoder
Jul 20, 2020
Album of the Week - Julianna Barwick - Healing is a Miracle
Julianna Barwick's music is both delicate and powerful. Her layers of looped soprano float like clouds, weightless and ethereal.
Nathan Yoder
Jul 20, 2020
Album of the Week - Kin Leonn and Hiroshi Ebina - Faraway Vicinity
Creative sound artists Kin Leonn and Hiroshi Ebina join forces on Faraway Vicinity to paint four landscapes, blending field recordings with
Nathan Yoder
Jul 6, 2020
Album Preview - t0k4 - Naga
This Friday, Portland producer t0k4 will send a set of spectral tracks out into the bright July sunlight. His album, Naga, contains eight c
Nathan Yoder
Jun 30, 2020
Album of the Week - William Cashion - Postcard Music
William Cashion, bassist for Future Islands, just released his debut solo album - a collection of 11 vignettes evoking nature-based nostalgi
Nathan Yoder
Jun 29, 2020
Album of the Week - Kahlil Blu - Dog
It's been a banner year for New York rap. Medhane's FULL CIRCLE and then Cold Water, as well as MIKE's just-released Weight of the World ea
Nathan Yoder
Jun 22, 2020
Album of the Week - Gia Margaret - Mia Gargaret
Chicago-based singer/songwriter Gia Margaret's second album is a sonic departure from her first, and strangely, this unexpected shift was bo
Nathan Yoder
Jun 15, 2020
Album of the Week - Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Sideways to New Italy
Like the lovable indie dads, Real Estate, RBCF is a five-piece band whose clever lyrics and trebly guitar tones define their sound. However
Nathan Yoder
Jun 8, 2020
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