Marc Masters
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Bitchin Bajas: Bajascillators Album Review
The Chicago psych trio’s loops and layers seem to play tricks on time: Long songs fly by quickly, and short pieces feel expansive. → Read More
Albert Ayler: Revelations: The Complete ORTF 1970 Fondations Maeght Recordings Album Review
In 1970, just four months before his death, the avant-jazz saxophonist played two concerts to a rapturous crowd in France. A new 5xLP set collects the complete recordings for the first time. → Read More
Sonic Youth: In/Out/In Album Review
On these five mostly instrumental recordings from between 2000 and 2010, Sonic Youth dig in and stretch out. → Read More
Myriam Gendron: Ma délire
The ambitious new album from the Canadian songwriter features thoughtful and transformative interpretations of traditional music. It is both a meditation on the past and a novel step forward. → Read More
Senyawa: Alkisah Album Review
Mixing metal and noise with ritualistic howls, the Indonesian duo’s seventh album is a thrilling, at times ecstatic serenade to the collapse of civilization. → Read More
Gang of Four: Gang of Four: 77-81 Album Review
The UK post-punk pioneers’ influence always outshone their popularity, but a new box set makes a convincing case that stardom actually was within their reach. → Read More
Pylon: Pylon: Pylon Box Album Review
A 4xLP box set pays tribute to the influential Athens band, who in the early ’80s pioneered a stripped-down post-punk sound that was raw, minimalist, brainy, and danceable. → Read More
Alan Braufman: The Fire Still Burns Album Review
Following the recent rediscovery of his 1975 album Valley of Search, the saxophonist releases a quintet set of all-new compositions that nod to jazz history while rocketing off to points unknown. → Read More
Honey Radar: Sing the Snow Away: The Chunklet Years Album Review
A collection of catchy, lo-fi 7"s on Athens’ Chunklet shows off the Philadelphia musician Jason Henn’s bedroom-pop prowess and surreal, often funny songwriting. → Read More
Naujawanan Baidar: Naujawanan Baidar Album Review
Reworking a trove of cassettes filled with decades-old songs from Kabul, the Arizona native explores his Afghan heritage by collaging traditional melodies, entrancing loops, and psychedelic noise. → Read More
Bill Nace: Both Album Review
The experimental guitarist who made his name on collaboration steps into the spotlight with a meditative, ominous solo LP. Each of these eight pieces is like a pitch-black room, easy to enter but tricky to navigate. → Read More
Forest Management: After Dark Album Review
Sampling a worn vinyl copy of Debussy’s Le Mer, the Chicago musician creates short, impressionistic pieces that fuse ambient, drone, and noise; they’re easy to get lost in. → Read More
Earth: Full Upon Her Burning Lips Album Review
The minimalist drone-riff masters pare away excess and focus on the seismic repetition that made their best work so resonant, creating a new peak in their long discography. → Read More
Early Myths About R.E.M. Debunked: What We Learned From a New Biography, Begin the Begin
Robert Dean Lurie’s Begin the Begin dives into R.E.M.’s formative years with help from the Athens, Georgia set → Read More
Heather Leigh: Throne Album Review
Known for her improvisational aplomb, the pedal steel guitarist and singer returns with her second and most complex batch of composed songs, subversive and rich documents of love and lust. → Read More
Calvin Johnson: A Wonderful Beast Album Review
With help from the Black Keys’ Patrick Carney and erstwhile pop star Michelle Branch, the DIY icon finds new ways to tease out light and dark, allure and anxiety with his key-ignoring baritone. → Read More
Ipek Gorgun: Ecce Homo Album Review
The Turkish sound artist balances technical precision, emotional potency, and trenchant cultural critique on an album whose individual sounds are as compelling as their widescreen narratives. → Read More
Terry: I’m Terry Album Review
The Australian quartet both epitomizes and transcends the indie-pop aesthetic on an album that balances lighthearted wordplay with serious political commentary. → Read More
Matchess: Sacracorpa Album Review
The final installment in a trilogy of albums by Chicago experimentalist Whitney Johnson gets its motifs from nature and its emotional immediacy from the musician’s recent medical emergency. → Read More
Cruel Diagonals: Disambiguation Album Review
On her debut album as Cruel Diagonals, the Oakland experimental musician Megan Mitchell turns samples sourced from ethnomusicological archives into ambient music that’s both expressive and empathetic. → Read More