…Limited Edition features an additional 47 minute bonus CD of music not included on the album.
Like an alternate soundtrack to Kaneto Shindo’s 1964 Japanese horror classic Onibaba, Steven Wilson’s solo work has always taken listeners on a roller-coaster ride through a variety of themes, dating back to 2008’s Insurgentes. From inner turmoil and serial killers to ghost stories, isolation, the brutal truths of fanaticism, online shopping addiction, the search for life’s inner truth, and journeys through the cosmos, Wilson has never been an artist who allows listeners to predict what comes next.
Whether you embrace his music or find yourself struggling to connect with it, Wilson has always been willing to take risks, challenge…
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Just months after Make a Sound, the first full album on his new label, Sky River Music, saxophonist Oded Tzur returns with a confident, exhilarating set of compositions. In the Arms of a True Believer reunites him with past collaborators Petros Klampanis (bass), Nitai Hershkovits (piano), and Cyrano Almeida (drums), and adds two new voices: Anais Benoit on piccolo and Corentin Morvan on euphonium. The pair brings a sprightly, intricate melodicism to the music. Longtime followers will notice this evolution right away and will likely adore it, while newcomers will find one of his most successful albums in an already rich catalogue. The cover shows a parent and young child in a close embrace, and the music matches: a heartfelt, widescreen vision of jazz, full of…
Make a Sound marks the first full release from saxophonist and composer 
You don’t expect 
Of the many elements Blair Dunlop has got right with What Still Survives, the award-winning British singer songwriters sixth full-length album, is the backbone of the sound. Bob Dylan was trying to describe something like this back in 1966 when he settled, aptly, on the phrase ‘wild mercury’. I cannot hope to improve upon that description. Still, I will, all the same, say that, aided by Ian Grimble on production duties, the combination of acoustic and electric guitars, drums and bass, with frequent embellishments by Hammond organ, pedal steel and violins, pretty much lays out a musical toolkit that can conjure the widest possible range of emotional responses. Blair has put himself and his latest batch of original songs, mostly written solo with the odd co-credit to…
The cover photo for soulful, bluesy singer/songwriter Eric Jerardi’s tenth album is a bit misleading. The Game has nothing to do with Chess or any other recreational board activity played against others.
After last year’s 50th anniversary bonanza for the score to 
On 
…remastered and restored for its 40th anniversary, including five previously unreleased bonus tracks sourced directly from the original 1986 recording sessions.
About halfway through new album, We Can Rot Together, 
Historically eclipsed by the influence of the foundational post-hardcore bands from neighboring New Jersey (your Lifetimes, your Midtowns), NYC emo is enjoying a moment thanks to new-school groups like alt-pop specialists Zachshots and screamoviolence outfit OLTH. Brooklyn-based 
Named for a Ride song, England’s 
On their previous releases, San Francisco’s 
Given that 
As this album’s title implies, and her bio confirms, roots singer/songwriter 
A behemoth of an album, Trip the Night Fantastic arrives carrying the weight of big ideas, and an overriding belief in the power of community to spark social change. Built around the core chemistry of pianist Aaron Parks, guitarist Matthew Stevens and multi-instrumentalist Morgan Guerin, and delivered under the aegis of drummer, educator and changemaker