Guia Cortassa
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Album of the Week: Julien Baker’s Turn Out the Lights
"Passivity is a tacit endorsement of evil we are too afraid to oppose actively. You can’t just always let go." → Read More
Album of the Week: Take Me Apart by Kelela
"The reality is that the way that I’m expressing myself on this record is coming from a place of vulnerability that is very much in the tradition of R&B." → Read More
Album of the Week: Forced Witness by Alex Cameron
"Where does one draw the line when you as a person believe in progress, but as a writer feel like you need to focus on people who would challenge that, who would ask us to regress?" → Read More
Album of the Week: Nadine Shah’s Holiday Destination
"The fact that they had no shame in saying that whilst being interviewed, on national television... it really shocked me." → Read More
Album of the Week: Mellow Waves by Cornelius
Cornelius is the alter ego of the legendary Japanese composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Keigo Oyamada. Twenty years after releasing their iconic album Fantasma in 1997, and putting an end to an eleven-year-long silence, the Tokyo-based musician and his band are now back with Mellow Waves, out now via Rostrum Records. Having shifted from the postmodern cut-and-paste… → Read More
Maricka Hackman – 'I'm Not Your Man' review
A vivid, vital energy pulsates through Maricka Hackman's accidental concept album about the lifespan of a relationship → Read More
Album of the Week: True to Self by Bryson Tiller
Bryson Tiller made himself known in 2015, when, hailing from the streets of Louisville, KY, the then-twenty-two-year-old singer, rapper, and songwriter posted his debut single “Don’t” on his Soundcloud page, introducing a new style that blends “the urgency of trap music with the smoother sound of alternative R&B.” Subsequently, Tiller released his first album, T R A P… → Read More
Album of the Week: Harriet Brown’s Contact
Hailing from the Bay Area and now based in Los Angeles, Harriet Brown is the self-proclaimed champion of "romantic funk," a realm where Prince is king and Sade is queen. His debut Contact, just released by Innovative Leisure, is “a concept album about communication and the contact we purposely, accidentally and inherently struggle to make between friends, lovers and… → Read More
Album of the Week: Arca by Arca
In 2012, after leaving their homeland Venezuela for New York City and then London, Alejandro Ghersi began playing music under the stage name of Arca. A former child star, Ghersi has collaborated with Bjork and Kanye West. Now, the twenty-six-year-old producer and composer is releasing their third, eponymous album—the first via XL Recordings, and the… → Read More
Album of the Week: Tei Shi’s Crawl Space
Tei Shi is Valerie Teicher—born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, raised between Bogota, Colombia, and Vancouver, Canada, she now lives in New York after graduating from Boston’s Berklee College of Music. Her new album, Crawl Space, out now from Downtown Records, is her coming-of-age diary transposed into music. As we hear in the album opener, Teicher began writing… → Read More
Album of the Week: Mount Eerie’s A Crow Looked at Me
Mount Eerie, the musical project of songwriter and producer Phil Elverum, has a new album and it's a personal and moving journey into the loss of Elverum's wife, Genevieve. He wrote on his site about the process of creating the album: August 31st to Dec. 6th, 2016 in the same room where Geneviève died, using mostly her instruments, her guitar,… → Read More
Album of the Week: Jay Som’s Everybody Works
Jay Som is the musical project of San Francisco singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Melina Duterte. The moniker was found via an online baby name generator and means “Victory Moon." Everybody Works is her sophomore release, out via Polyvinyl Record. Writing, recording, playing on, and producing almost every bit of her new album, Duterte keeps her signature… → Read More
Album of the Week: Nadia Reid’s Preservation
“I remember recording the tracks, it was about 11 at night, and I felt almost transcendental, as if I was out of my body, singing these words to myself. That’s what these songs are: a confession to… → Read More
Album of the Week: Peter Silberman’s Impermanence
“It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.” This quote from Miles Davis is what inspired Peter Silberman during the make of his first solo album, Impermanence, o… → Read More
Album of the Week: Molly Burch’s Please Be Mine
Torch songs, i.e. “sentimental love songs, typically one in which the singer laments an unrequited love,” were once the flagship of every respected crooner: with sultry lonesomeness, a smooth voice… → Read More
Album of the Week: Sinkane’s Life & Livin’ It
Take a musician born in London, raised for a time in Sudan, and relocated to Ohio at five years old. Have his parents make him listen to Bob Marley, and let him eventually discover great Afrobeat l… → Read More
Album of the Week: Allison Crutchfield’s Tourist in This Town
Allison Crutchfield has been making music her whole life: with her twin sister Katie first, then in bands like P.S. Eliot, Bad Banana, and Swearin’, founded with her former partner. Now, Crutchfiel… → Read More
Album of the Week: Cherry Glazerr’s Apocalipstick
Clementine Creevy is a nineteen-year-old girl from Los Angeles with a vision: having a career in music in a society that “would deem that a prodigious girl can’t be in a progressive rock band… → Read More
Album of the Week: The Flaming Lips’s Oczy Mlody
“When asked (about our newest album Oczy Mlody) what does your new stuff sound like..?? My current response has been that it sounds like Syd Barrett meets A$AP Rocky and they get trapped in a fairy… → Read More
Album Of The Week: Christine Ott’s Tabu
After many years of touring it as a ciné-concert performance, Christine Ott finally found a home for her Tabu, releasing it on Gizeh Records for its Dark Peak Series. In it, the French musician, wh… → Read More