Album of the Week - David Grubbs & Taku Unami - Comet Meta
On Comet Meta, David Grubbs and Taku Unami utilize guitar, piano, and light field recordings across seven tracks to create starkly beautiful
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Nathan Yoder
May 25, 2020
Album of the Week - Fools - Fools' Harp, Vol. 1
Fools is the solo project of Christopher Bear, a multi-instrumentalist for the indie-experimental darlings Grizzly Bear. He has also perfor
Nathan Yoder
May 19, 2020
Album Preview - Methods Body - S/T
Methods Body, the Portland-based duo of John Niekrasz and Luke Wyland, releases their debut album this Friday through Beacon Sound and New A
Nathan Yoder
May 18, 2020
Album of the Week - Andrew Tuttle - Alexandra
Andrew Tuttle grew up in the community of Alexandra Hills, outside Brisbane, and his fourth album serves as a tribute to the place he learne
Nathan Yoder
May 12, 2020
Album Preview - Luke Schneider - Altar of Harmony
Luke Schneider is a popular Nashville-based session musician, having played a variety of stringed instruments alongside Margo Price, William
Nathan Yoder
May 11, 2020
Album of the Week - water feature - in the world generally
Tasty Morsels is a record label of sorts, but one that does not actually distribute physical copies of albums, promote tours, or make any mo
Nathan Yoder
May 4, 2020
Album of the Week - V/A - Piano Cloud Series Volume Five
Apologies to Karim Kamar, who released an excellent album of solo piano music this past Friday, but when pitted against a 50-song, two-and-a
Nathan Yoder
Apr 27, 2020
Album of the Week - Jäverling ◇ von Euler - Musik för trädgårdar
With their new release, Musik för trädgårdar (which is inspired by plants and horticulture), the Swedish duo of Rickard Jäverling and Henrik
Nathan Yoder
Apr 20, 2020
Album of the Week - Chihei Hatakeyama - Void XX
Chihei Hatakeyama makes music to melt to. His meditative new age pieces are composed of heavily-processed instrumentation, recorded and the
Nathan Yoder
Apr 13, 2020
Album of the Week - Inwards - Bright Serpent
To those who do not entirely appreciate the genre, electronic music can feel repetitive. A melody that spans an entire track, repeating ove
Nathan Yoder
Apr 6, 2020
Album of the Week - Clarice Jensen - The experience of repetition as death
Considering our current situation, the title of Clarice Jensen's most recent release feels pretty spot-on. "What day is it, again?" we wond
Nathan Yoder
Mar 30, 2020
Album of the Week - Nils Frahm - Empty
It's been said that when Nils Frahm takes his show on the road, he brings so much equipment that auditorium stages literally sag under the w
Nathan Yoder
Mar 23, 2020
Album of the Week - Ratgrave - Rock
Sometimes an album emerges out of nowhere and is so stylistically different than whatever else you are immersed in, that you can't forget it
Nathan Yoder
Mar 16, 2020
Album of the Week - Glåsbird - Norskfjǫrðr
Glåsbird makes musical postcards - compositions defined by place. In the past, the artist's location-themed albums captured the desolate, f
Nathan Yoder
Mar 9, 2020
Album of the Week - Pantha du Prince - Conference of Trees
The average mature redwood tree grows to be 500 - 800 years old, and the tallest can reach up to 350 feet high. If you have ever visited a
Nathan Yoder
Mar 2, 2020
Album of the Week - Caribou - Suddenly
Over the past two decades, Dan Snaith has worked on transforming Caribou from a two-kit, kaleidoscopic, freak folk project into an electro-p
Nathan Yoder
Feb 24, 2020
Album of the Week - Medhane - FULL CIRCLE
An exciting up-and-coming artist out of New York, Medhane shows off his lyrical and production chops over the fifteen minute blur that is FU
Nathan Yoder
Feb 17, 2020
Album of the Week - Beach Bunny - Honeymoon
Sometimes we need music to act as a calming agent - a centering meditation in our hectic lives. Ambient soundscapes, acoustic instrumentals
Nathan Yoder
Feb 10, 2020
Album of the Week - Tristan Eckerson - Decades
Solo piano has claimed a lot of space in these early days of Deepest Currents, and while this past Friday rendered a standout electronic alb
Nathan Yoder
Feb 3, 2020
Album of the Week - Andras - Joyful
This past January in the Pacific Northwest was an especially dark and dreary one. It was Portland's wettest month on record in nearly three
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