Magic Tuber Stringband turn Heavy Water into avant-folk memory work
North Carolina trio Magic Tuber Stringband pays a haunting avant-folk tribute to a displaced town on their new album Heavy Water.
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North Carolina trio Magic Tuber Stringband pays a haunting avant-folk tribute to a displaced town on their new album Heavy Water.
Mabe Fratti and Bill Orcutt release Almost Waking via Unheard of Hope, a cello-and-guitar collaboration that is intimate, thorny and alive, like hearing a private conversation through a wall and realizing it is actually a storm.
Visible Cloaks release Paradessence via RVNG Intl., their first full-length in nine years, an ambient record full of tiny events, synthetic woodwinds and digital surfaces that turns crisis fatigue into an environment you can enter and leave slightly altered.
Duval Timothy and Carlos Nino release Rain Music through their own labels, a prepared piano and percussion collaboration featuring Navy Blue, Laraaji and Darius Jones that feels less like a jazz or ambient release and more like a room where weather is being played by hand.
Bladee’s Sulfur Surfer announcement remains one of the more intriguing alternative and internet-underground stories going into 17 May.
Bladee announces Sulfur Surfer and shares the eerie new single Blondie.