Woods Can't See the Forest for the Trees on 'Strange to Explain'

Published May 21, 2020

After a few passes through Woods' eleventh album it's clear that Strange to Explain is an album that lives in its details. Three years since...

Damien Jurado Delivers Yet Another Quietly Magnificent Album with 'What's New, Tomboy?'

Published May 06, 2020

Twenty-five years and 15 albums into a career that is especially remarkable in how infrequently it is remarked upon, Damien Jurado provides...

Windy & Carl Allegiance and Conviction

Published Mar 25, 2020

Three decades into a musical career, most artists tend to either reinvent their process or cannibalize their past. Michigan space rock duo W...

Ida Toninato We Become Giants

Published Feb 24, 2020

Birthed in the belly of a steel water tank in the Colorado desert, Montreal-based saxophonist Ida Toninato's new album lives up to its title...

Spinning Coin Hyacinth

Published Feb 24, 2020

Glasgow outfit Spinning Coin's fortunes were given an early boost with positive attention from Geographic label boss and indie luminary Step...

Henning Schmiedt Schlafen

Published Feb 19, 2020

Henning Schmiedt's approach to Bach's Goldberg Aria is marked by its choices and variations, many of which have as much to do with the recor...

Rebecca Foon Waxing Moon

Published Feb 18, 2020

After releasing two albums under her Saltland moniker, Rebecca Foon, who has also long been a contributing member of Thee Silver Mt. Zion an...

Furrows A Thin Veneer

Published Feb 07, 2020

Nick Dawson and Stuart Bowditch run Courier Records in Suffolk, UK. They are also Furrows, and A Thin Veneer is the collected result of thei...

Colin Stetson Color Out of Space

Published Jan 29, 2020

Following his work on Ari Aster's 2018 film Hereditary, Colin Stetson tackles the much looser and loopy task of scoring Color Out of Space,...

Sylvain Chauveau Simple

Published Jan 16, 2020

Now into his third decade as a composer and experimentalist in the constellation of interconnected musical forms dubbed everything from post...

Mount Eerie with Julie Doiron Lost Wisdom pt. 2

Published Nov 12, 2019

Revisiting the original Lost Wisdom a little more than a decade after its release, you find an album full of questions about ghosts, empty h...

Pan*American A Son

Published Nov 07, 2019

Mark Nelson's 25 years of making music, from the austere post-rock of his Virginia trio Labradford to the most recent ambient keyboard exper...

Chromatics Closer to Grey

Published Oct 10, 2019

When Chromatics showed up as live performers in a roadhouse scene of 2017's Twin Peaks: The Return, it felt like they had stepped into a spo...

Oren Ambarchi Simian Angel

Published Jul 08, 2019

Collaboration and hybridization are two forces that yield interesting musical mutations, and this is especially true when the splicing invol...

The Ex FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 19

Published May 20, 2019

So how does a punk band last 40 years and not lapse into self-parody? Here is a partial list.   By showing punk is not anti-intellectual....

Xavier Garcia and Lionel Marchetti FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 19

Published May 20, 2019

French duo Xavier Garcia and Lionel Marchetti were given a special setup on a small, raised stage surrounded by the audience on all sides. T...

Tyshawn Sorey Trio FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 19

Published May 20, 2019

It could be festival fatigue messing with the senses, but drummer Tyshan Soren repeatedly pulled off the same subtle trick: biding time thro...

Senyawa and Keiji Haino FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 19

Published May 20, 2019

As an undeniable force of nature, one of Keiji Haino's innate abilities is not necessarily to play with others. He thrives in situations whe...

Joane Hétu FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 19

Published May 20, 2019

As a musician, organizer, label boss and all-around local hero for decades, Joane Hétu has a deep, deep Rolodex. The contact list came in ha...

Vijay Iyer Sextet FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 18

Published May 19, 2019

Pianist Vijay Iyer is at that point in his career, just past 40 years old, where his status as a promising new voice is near fully mutated i...