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Joel Veena (Joel Eisenkramer), a Vermont-based slide guitarist steeped in the Hindustani tradition, returns with Cardinal, an eight-track collection that pulls from deep traditions and newer collaborations. Eisenkramer has built his career around the 20-string Indian slide guitar, and with Cardinal, he moves with quiet assurance – tracking ideas that matter to him, in a…
Golem Dance Cult’s latest offering, “Call of the Wendigo,” steps out of their new album Shamanic Faultlines and into the shadows. The track opens with a low, rumbling riff that feels like distant thunder, then shatters into gritty guitars draped in reverb. Vocal lines slide through the mix with a wet, haunted quality – part…
E.G. Phillips returns with Tricks of the Light, a six-track EP that leans further into orchestral arrangements and cinematic detail than anything he’s done before. Known for his eccentric mix of jazz, folk, and wit-heavy songwriting, Phillips steps into more classical territory here without losing the humor or intellect that has always set him apart….
From the experimental corners of Cambridge, LateNightBeatFeast returns with Transmission Seven, a full-length album built around friction, contrast, and influence. A follow-up to their 2024 project Variance, this new release continues the producer’s trajectory of genre-bending compositions, leaning deeper into science fiction influences and analog textures. Rather than presenting a fixed style or clear genre,…
The Kiss is the fourth album by Izabela Kałduńska, known as The New Solarism. Written during the first lockdown of 2020 and recorded later in Leipzig, the music was originally composed for a remote theatre piece by Berlin author Tomas Blum. Although the production was never finished, the music survived as a standalone work –…
Blunt Blade’s Forgiveness feels like a direct shot from the gut. It’s a seven-track album that leans confidently into rock but isn’t afraid to mess with the edges. There’s a cinematic streak running through it, and several tracks bring in subtle synth elements that keep things from getting too predictable. It sounds like someone who’s…
Michael Giacchino’s latest release, Exotic Themes for the Silver Screen Vol. 2, is anything but a standard compilation. The Oscar-winning composer revisits some of his most well-known work – from Up and Inside Out to The Batman and Rogue One – and runs it through a playful, unexpected filter: Exotica. Released by Mutant, the album…
There’s something about AMBASADORIA that doesn’t ask to be understood immediately. It plays like an audio notebook from a parallel world: fragments of memory, shifting moods, and untamed musical conversations stitched into eight tracks. The project is led by Tomasz Kowalczyk, with four standout duets shaped by co-writer and musical interpreter Seif Limami, whose thoughtful…
Jakob The Liar’s debut EP feels like the start of a movement. ‘Wake Up Mr. Kupferberg’ lands with the force of someone who’s been through too much to say anything half-hearted. It’s personal, but not just for the sake of therapy. These are songs that look the listener in the eye and dare them to…
MrMessy’s I Want to Make Her Happy EP feels like it crawled out from the wreckage of old drives and unfinished ideas, only to arrive sounding entirely current. Built from glitches, vocoders, sharp edges and warped grooves, these three tracks come out swinging — not in volume, but in personality. The title track, I Want…