It's our Bandcamp Picks of the Week, featuring the imaginative and inspired ambience of Kirin McElwain's YOUTH, out now via @akprecordings.bsky.social, and the crushingly soulful lo-fi folk of Emily Hines' THESE DAYS, out now via @keeledscales.bsky.social! Read about both albums today!
With the addition of ethereal vocals and unflinching electronic textures, the seven tracks skate between sub-heavy drone, loose pop song structures, and hypnotic synth textures.
Negotiating elements of harsh noise with crisp passages of cello, the work balances the deft hand of classical training with the mysterious and often chaotic nature of modular synthesis.
This week on Songs of Our Lives, it's Chris Williams! His new record on @akprecordings.bsky.social is so, so good. We talk a bit about that before diving into Ornette, Tower of Power, ganavya, James Brown, Eiyvand Kang & Jessika Kenney, Selena, Sakamoto, & more !
Drawn from a live performance at Roulette Intermedium, the album features multi-instrumentalist & composer @patrickshiroishi.bsky.social and Grammy Award-winning trombonist and composer Kalia Vandever, whose distinct voices amplify the record’s layered emotional spectrum.
Striking a balance between drifting levity & sculpted form, Williams melds a trio of horns with synthesizers. The result is a glossy yet fragile composite of breath, tone, and texture: billowing horns, filtered bells, and digital haze converge in waves of dissonance.
"Youth" by @kirinmcelwain.bsky.social fuses classical cello with experimental electronic sounds. Seven honest, powerful, and moving songs await you. Check out the preview and the first song now!
𝒴𝑜𝓊𝓉𝒽 from 𝗞𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗰𝗘𝗹𝘄𝗮𝗶𝗻 is out digitally and on limited edition cassette October 10th. Today we are excited to share the second single from the release, and title track, “Youth”.
The accompanying artist book expands the visual and thematic world of the project, inviting audiences to flip through 100 of Lundberg’s photographs with an accompanying poetic narrative unfolding line by line, page by page.
Built from a palette of double bass, cello, clarinet, drums, synthesizer, masking tape, and water-filled vessels, by-passing-upon merges sonorous ambient tones with driving rhythms and flowing, bubbling patterns.
:: Announcing :: 𝚋𝚢-𝚙𝚊𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚐-𝚞𝚙𝚘𝚗 from 𝚁𝚘(𝚋)//𝚎𝚛𝚝 𝙻𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚋𝚎𝚛𝚐 (AKP041) on digital, limited run CD/cassette, and art book on October 24th. The first single “flowing 2" is out now.
