Our first taste of OOOTOKO was last year’s striking video for “Elvas,” which features choreographer and dancer Laura Guessan struggling with an impossible rope. The Middle East timbres a...
We’ve reached a tipping point in the appreciation of retro sci-fi music. Most of the original composers are gone (Bebe and Louis Barron’s Forbidden Planet, released in 1956, is cited by Th...
The refugee crisis continues to rage around the world, sparking a dual backlash of racism and xenophobia. The focus may have shifted from the southern border of the U.S. to the demolished camps o...
https://acloserlisten.com/2024/05/08/mary-kouyoumdjian-2-suitcases/
Holland Andrews has released four EPs over the last three years, a quartet that deserves to be heard as a whole. Each pair is available on vinyl, and together they may be viewed as an album, y...
https://acloserlisten.com/2024/05/07/holland-andrews-wordless-forgettings-doubtless-answers/
After spending her early years in an indie alternative rock band, Jen K. Wilson struck out on her own as Buildings and Food. The traces of her history can be read in the name, which references...
https://acloserlisten.com/2024/05/06/buildings-and-food-echo-the-field/
Founding our own Glorious Chapels is a collective in the true sense of the word, shifting not only members, but monikers. Founded in 2016 when the bands Stems and Anathème joined forces as The...
https://acloserlisten.com/2024/05/05/musala-nan-elian-glossolalia/
Happy admission: I still have a CD player in my car. My prior car had a tape player, and for those who are wondering, Chrysler once made cars with turntables. I still burn CD-Rs, and tailor the s...
Harpist Mary Lattimore has been popping up all over the place this season, from Montgomery and Turner’s Spring Became Silent to Moor Mother’s GUILTY. An Adult Swim collaboration with Juli...
https://acloserlisten.com/2024/05/03/mary-lattimore-walt-mcclements-rain-on-the-road/