Bibio’s collage and pastiche-based music is hard to pin down, but his latest beams with a relaxed joyfulness that is refreshing after a spate of more laborious records.
This new LP is the first in a six-album series from ambient artist James Leyland Kirby. It’s an extreme continuation of the concept—memory loss—that guided his 2011 masterpiece, An Empty Bliss...
In 2013, the composer Ben Frost and librettist David Pountney devised an unconventional opera piece inspired by the 1984 psychological horror novel The Wasp Factory. Its music is shockingly beautiful.
The Norwegian trumpeter’s ninth album feels like an opaque and ambient jazz album you can walk right into. Truly, his instrument always seems on the verge of speaking.
Pitched between heat-seeking acid house and ambient bliss, the techno auteur’s first album since 2013 is a beat-music odyssey that thrums with spiritual resonance.
Eighteen musicians? In this economy? The Michigan post-minimalist recasts Steve Reich’s landmark composition as a solo project with a sleek, dark-hued electronic palette.
The Massachusetts-raised singer-songwriter’s second album exudes a quiet intensity, slipping between gentle indie rock and barely-there folk songs with bottomless vulnerability.
Returning home to Humboldt after 20 years of roaming, Ben Chasny finds new connections between the modes—fingerpicked guitar, hushed folk, experimental noise—that have long crisscrossed his work.
Eleven years since their last album and nine since keyboardist Carey Lander’s death, the beloved Scottish indie-poppers return with an appealing balance of fond memories and fresh energy.