Posts by Simon Cohn

To Find Me Gone is a remarkable step forward for the San Francisco based folk collective, which includes sometime-members Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsom.

Security Screenings has arisen at the crest of a new (and probably the last) wave of activity for Heren under his Prefuse 73 moniker, and it feels especially frantic – if not like an afterthought then definitely a quick diversion before the next album.

For the past few years (since 2000, really), they

At just over 30 minutes, I Am a Bird Now is deceptively short; a beautifully concise effort that demands to be listened to in one sitting, and rewards the experience with a glittering sonic halo.

Just in time for winter, the Icelandic super-elves Sigur Ros deliver another perfectly crystallized sonic poem evoking their sparkling quicksilver home in the stars. Takk

In the five years separating the recently released Artifact from their previous studio effort, STS9 has toured and performed with Tortoise, drum & bass guru LTJ Bukem and beat alchemists like Telefon Tel Aviv and Karsh Kale among others, and they

Like Bill Laswell, whose Material project served as an early inspiration, Dub Gabriel makes trance music in the most traditional sense.