Grayson Haver Currin
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Raleigh, NC, United States
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Yo La Tengo: This Stupid World Album Review
On their liveliest album in at least a decade, indie rock’s most steadfast institution squares up against ubiquitous darkness. → Read More
Archers of Loaf: Reason in Decline Album Review
On their first studio album in 24 years, the long-reunited Southern indie rockers make mighty, angry songs better suited for now than then. → Read More
On 'The Bible,' the ageless Lambchop finally squares up against old age
Kurt Wagner's Nashville collective has always been an expression of absolute possibility. The Bible, his best album in a decade, points that instinct at life's most inescapable truth. → Read More
Runhild Gammelsæter / Lasse Marhaug: Context Album Review
The prolific Norwegian producer and electronic musician explores space and silence on a pair of powerful, absorbing records—one solo, the other with experimental metal vocalist Runhild Gammelsæter. → Read More
Scarcity: Aveilut
The debut collaboration from classical composer Brendon Randall-Myers and metal vocalist Doug Moore is an unflinching testimonial on grief and endurance. → Read More
Kali Malone: Living Torch Album Review
The Stockholm-based composer is best known for her pipe-organ compositions, but here, she uses trombone, bass clarinet, and ARP 2500 to explore the strange radiance of just intonation. → Read More
Damien Jurado: Reggae Film Star Album Review
While revisiting a treasured childhood TV show, the amber-voiced songwriter reaches back for the psychedelic majesty of his work with the late Richard Swift. → Read More
Jack Johnson: Meet the Moonlight Album Review
Collaborating with Blake Mills to make his best album yet, the gentle songwriter pushes beyond feel-good stereotypes to look for small joys amid vexing times. → Read More
S.G. Goodman: Teeth Marks Album Review
On her self-produced second album, the Kentucky songwriter offers vivid portraits of complex people, synthesizing decades of Southern music into a singular vision. → Read More
Julia Reidy: World in World Album Review
On these ruminative solo guitar pieces, the Berlin-based artist takes an idiosyncratic and emotionally expressive approach, making even the most ordinary gestures sound mutated and strange. → Read More
Zimoun: Guitar Studies I-III Album Review
This suite of three intricate, hour-long guitar drones from the Swiss experimental musician suggests no ends or beginnings, just an unfathomable expanse of immersive sound. → Read More
Mavis Staples / Levon Helm: Carry Me Home Album Review
Captured live a year before Helm’s death, this reunion of old friends and kindred icons is a testament to perseverance, faith, and mighty backing bands. → Read More
Tangled in conspiracy theories, can Matt Pike face the music?
Matt Pike overcame long odds to find success in metal bands Sleep and High on Fire. But his deepening obsession with conspiracy theories has created a dissonant riff. → Read More
Undeath: It’s Time… To Rise From the Grave Album Review
Zombie armies, mortal standoffs, gravesite robberies: On their ecstatic second album, the Rochester metal band has fun with death. → Read More
Matchess: Sonescent Album Review
Inspired by a stint in silent meditation, these two sidelong pieces attempt to wrest orchestral order from real-life chaos. → Read More
Modern Nature: Island of Noise Album Review
Jack Cooper’s vision as a songwriter and bandleader comes into focus on the most cohesive album of his career: a fantasyland hybrid of elegant folk-rock and understated free-jazz. → Read More
Joni Mitchell: Archives Volume 2: The Reprise Years (1968-1971) Album Review
Spanning the years between her debut and Blue, this 122-song set documents the hard work of exploration, revision, and rejection that shaped the songwriter’s first masterpiece. It is a humanizing wonder. → Read More
Jeff Parker: Forfolks Album Review
On his new solo album, the Tortoise guitarist blends loops and improvisations in dazzling ways. It sounds like jazz but moves like a soft techno dream. → Read More
When Making Music Breaks Your Body
An arthritis diagnosis means the latest album by the Bay Area band The Dodos is likely its last. It is a striking reminder of the oft-overlooked physical strains of music careers. → Read More
Wild Up: Julius Eastman, Vol. 1: Femenine Album Review
For the first installment of its proposed seven-album anthology of the late composer’s work, the California collective breathes new life into his ecstatic minimalist masterpiece. → Read More