#besnard-lakes

#besnard-lakes

Her slowly shifting synthesizer compositions and quiet, meditative pieces for acoustic instruments continue to inspire a deep immersion in their audiences, and her recordings and writings have influenced multiple generations of musicians worldwide.

We like the idea of art as a tool for changing your perspective, being able to rotate ideas and see/hear/feel them from a different vantage point. Horse Lords' artistic philosophy centers on using their music to shift listener perspectives and explore ideas from multiple angles, reflecting their experimental approach to composition and performance.

The bizarre, multilingual stories that emerged match the French duo's ramshackle, home-recorded sound, which features everything from toybox percussion to farmyard sound effects. Their whimsical approach is anchored in the outsider pop and post-punk of 1980s Europe, which embraced discordant instrumentation and disaffected vocals.

There was a Marathon gas station at the end of the street I lived on as a kid. Its big, glowing sign was a landmark for me-when I could see it from the window of my mom's car, I knew we were about to be home. Its iconic 'M'-on the rare occasion I encounter one these days-still brings up that old feeling, the familiarity of homecoming, and a twinge of nostalgia.

I didn't want to necessarily make a Memoryland 2, but to me this is an organic successor to that album. The overall vibe of L.U.V. is meant to be sort of Eurodance with a sophisticated edge. It's music for an adult lifestyle.

The Moth has been long-awaited, having first been announced by Townsend over a decade ago. The wait was in large part due to the scope of the project: with multiple choirs and orchestras from all over the world being part of the recording, it is by far the most ambitious record Townsend has ever assembled.

His first albums under his own name, 1995's Earth & Nightfall and 1996's cult classic Ten Days of Blue, were blissful-sounding ambient techno records that took the melodic sensibilities of the local scene to their cosmic extremes. Every beep and blip was in harmony with a lush string line, the rhythms less like breakbeats or programmed drums than trance-inducing hammered dulcimers.

The New Pornographers will release new album The Former Site Of on March 27, via Merge. Watch the video for the single "Votive," animated by Michael Arthur, below. The band that performs on the follow-up to Continue as a Guest comprises A.C. Newman, Kathryn Calder, Neko Case, John Collins, and Todd Fancey. Charley Drayton joins on drums, replacing the disgraced former drummer Joe Seiders. Josh Wells will be behind the kit on the band's April-bound tour.

For the cover, the concept is that Bingo is as much an exclamation, as an outcome or a dog. Melissa didn't want it to be too 'on the nose'-like a Bingo game in a social club-but she thought it good to keep elements of the game and combine them with nods to conversations that the different members of the band have had between them.

Black metal has been chummy with ambient music since birth, but Ulver's commitment to the genre is something else. Their debut album, (1995), released when singer Kristoffer Garm Rygg was 18, inspired a whole universe of nature-drunk folk metal; meanwhile, Nattens Madrigal (1997) is a prime example of the most scabrous and distortion-encrusted recesses of black metal. Between the two was the ambient Kveldssanger (1996), which proved they could work well at a lower altitude, but that still didn't prepare anyone for 2000's Perdition City:

A teenage Björk, in defiance of her stuffy music schooling, had studied not only Cage but also the radical turn-of-the-century composer Arnold Schoenberg, whose early operas developed a voice that flickered, glissando-style, between boisterous singing and speech. Schoenberg called the technique sprechstimme, but when you hear it performed now-even if not in Björk's own, meagerly bootlegged rendition of his Pierrot Lunaire-the style has arrived in the timeless preserve of the Björkian.

Two years after parting ways with Republic Records, James Blake will release Trying Times, his first independent studio album, on March 13 via Good Boy Records. "Death Of Love," the lead single with the London Welsh Male Voice Choir, is out now. Listen to it below. The 12-track LP features contributions from UK rapper Dave and Los Angeles-based vocalist Monica Martin. Blake first teased Trying Times to fans three days ago, through the website tryingtimes.info.

In a 2019 interview with Machine Music-one of the few he's ever given-Patrick Walker pushed back on the notion that Warning makes "very loud folk music." His retort, palpably prickly even in text: "I don't see that connection there. Warning was very much about riffs, and was a metal album." It's understandable that Walker's interlocutor would pursue this line of questioning. Warning's singular approach to doom metal has a way of making you disbelieve your own ears.

THE CHAMELEONSPost-punk greats The Chameleons have announced a spring 2026 North American tour in support of last year's Arctic Moon. The Veldt open all dates, and stops include Minneapolis, Chicago, Detroit, Toronto, Montreal, Brooklyn, DC, Philly, Asbury Park, Richmond, Tampa, Nashville, Austin and more. TRAUMA RAY / GLIXENRising shoegaze bands Trauma Ray and Glixen are going on a co-headlining tour this spring, and tour gets even 'gazier with support from Her New Knife, Knifeplay, Keep, and Money on select dates.

"I don't like wasting my bandmates' time, and always felt guilty when I'd give them a song, ask them to do something, then completely change the song and ask them to do it again. Now I can get the skeleton of a song together first - just a couple of elements, the key feeling, really as little as possible - before bringing it to the band and running from there."

Alex Ian Smith, the primary force behind the New York-based project Railings, sounds nothing like Cobain, but his voice induces similarly vicarious listening. In " Breaking the Bong," the opening track of Railings' 2017 album, ) (, he darts from guttural highs to velvety lows and then breaks into an effortlessly clear falsetto. It warrants the most preposterous-sounding comparisons: Prince meets David Lee Roth; David Thomas with the lung capacity of Benny "The Voice" Mardones.

In the five years that they've been active, it sometimes seems as if Purelink are dissolving right before our eyes. They've never again released anything quite as corporeal or propulsive as their debut EP, which paired visceral dub techno with rolling drum'n'bass. On their 2023 debut album, , glitchy drums crackled in a pastel haze, and last year's was even more ethereal; the trio's individual identities melted together under cover of amorphous arrangements that suggested fogbanks, blizzards, and other zero-visibility conditions.