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Ambient Artist M. Maria Debuts Otherworldly Sound with Premiere of "There's A Spirit In My Body"

’” So says Ridgewood-based ambient experimental artist M. Maria. She is on the cusp of dropping her debut EP Saturn Returned, from which she premieres...

Mandy Brownholtz

PLAYING COLUMBUSField Sleeper on His New LP, Musical Efficiency, and Collaboration

“This is a weird time,” Alex Paquet tells me as we sit down over coffee to talk about his musical project, Field Sleeper. “I’m not usually this bright of a person. There was a very long time – a good year and a half – where I was ultra-sensorially attentive and very, very calm. And it’s still all...

Kaiya Gordon

WOMAN OF INTERESTZiemba

She creates powerful music, visceral music videos, and experiments with fragrances in her performance and digital releases. She aims to transcend yet accentuate the human experience and our...

Elizabeth Wakefield

ALBUM REVIEWBrian Eno "Reflection"

Brian Eno's new generative album "Reflection", raises some surprisingly questions, such as the manner in which ambient music can be political or prescriptive.

Alexandra Freeman

TRACK REVIEWRosie Carney "Awake Me"

“My whole life just seemed like a cloud of fog,” Rosie Carney states frankly on her website, sharing explicit details about the pain she's experienced: bullying, sexual assaults, an eating disorder, being dropped from a major label at the age of seventeen. Now twenty, it’s no wonder Carney, who...

Emily Daly

ONLY NOISEMusic For Airports

Considering we can’t have free booze or even decent food (let alone free decent food) perhaps the good people of these airlines would allow some sort of in-flight access to any and all of the music you damn pleased.

Madison Bloom

PLAYING DETROITDaniel Monk "Kite View" (feat. ISLA)

The single “Kite View” quivers with fragility but not weakness.

Jerilyn Jordan

TRACK REVIEWHeather Woods Broderick "A Call For Distance"

Heather Woods Broderick has played a supporting role for artists like Laura Gibson, Sharon Van Etten, Horse Feathers and Efterklang. Now, the Portland composer/multi-instrumentalist is releasing an album that is solely hers. “A Call For Distance” is a stand-out track from Glider. It’s a...

Emily Daly

ALBUM REVIEWStage Hands "Stage Hands"

Stage Hands is a Johnstown, PA-based project made up of multimedia artist/producer Brandon Locher and drummer/producer Gerald Mattis. The duo started making music together in 2013, and are releasing their debut LP, Stage Hands, on February 10 through the PA music archive My Idea of Fun. The...

Emily Daly

TRACK REVIEWBonobo "Flashlight"

2 via Ninja Tune. New music from this British producer and musician, also known as Simon Green, comes after nearly two years of touring for his fifth...

Teta Alim

ALBUM REVIEWODESZA "In Return"

Since its inception in late 2012, the Seattle-based electronic duo ODESZA (Harrison Mills/Catacomb Kid and Clayton Knight/BeachesBeaches) has been both prolific and consistent. In particular, the pair made an unlikely fan out of this usually-EDM-ambivalent listener last November with the soulful...

Carena Liptak

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ALBUM REVIEWHelado Negro "Double Youth"

After a slew of collaborations (Bear In Heaven, Devendra Banhart, Julianna Barwick, and others), Roberto Carlos Lange retreated inward to make Double Youth, his fourth full-length release as Helado Negro. Recorded largely in Lange's home studio in Brooklyn, the album is constructed with simple...

Carena Liptak