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Maygen & The Birdwatcher – The Americana Dream (2025)
For name alone, Maygen & The Birdwatcher deserve plaudits for originality, but you don’t have to listen to their fusion of bluegrass and folk for long to appreciate that such creativity runs deep in the veins of this fine band from Minnesota, led by the songwriting duo Maygen Lacey and Noah Neumann. The Americana Dream […]
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December 27, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Exzald S – Iridesc (2025)
…After a decade of remarkable releases, Exzald S (Sarah Foulquiere) is finally ready to unveil her debut solo album ~ not counting the collaborative Serene Transfer Scheme, lodged in a unique steel box. The fantastic art ~ also by the artist ~ is an invitation to enter into a fabulous science fictional world. On Irisdesc, […]
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December 27, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Tristan Perich & James McVinnie – Infinity Gradient (2025)
There’s something about the pipe organ that keeps experimental musicians going back for more. No other acoustic instrument pierces and shakes the air in quite the same way. …Infinity Gradient is the latest in a growing canon of initially serene organ music that later reveals depth and grit. An hour-long piece for organ and 100 […]
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December 27, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Eyvind Kang – Riparian (2025)
A frequent collaborator of a diverse array of artists – including Laurie Anderson, Jessika Kenney, Bill Frisell and Sunn O))) – New York composer/violist Eyvind Kang presents his first solo recording on viola d’amore, an instrument he came to explore during the pandemic. An Italian bowed instrument used primarily in the Baroque period, the viola […]
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December 26, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Le Collectif Tango Negro Ensemble – Tribute to Juan Carlos Caceres (2025)
Le Collectif Tango Negro Ensemble honors the legacy of Juan Carlos Cáceres (1936–2015) with a double album, Tribute to Juan Carlos Cáceres, that reinterprets his most iconic works alongside previously unreleased compositions. A pioneer of what he called “tango negro” (black tango), Cáceres traced the African roots of Río de la Plata music, fusing jazz, […]
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December 26, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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John Scofield & Dave Holland – Memories of Home (2025)
American guitarist John Scofield and British bassist Dave Holland, two jazz heavyweights with a tremendous shared oeuvre, join forces for their first duo record, join forces for their first duo record, Memories of Home. Recorded after extensive touring together, the album its something to stick with, as they refine and hone abundant musical ideas in […]
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December 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Verity Den – wet glass (2025)
Wet glass is a slippery substance, and so, too, is this second album from North Carolina’s verity den. This home-recorded follow-up to the 2024 debut sidles fluidly between dark, muscular shoegaze, pristine and delicate dream pop and fuzz-hazed space rock. A nod to Yo La Tengo’s slowest, most ambient soundscapes leads into Sonic Youth-style guitar […]
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December 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Pete Muller – One Last Dance (2025)
To say Pete Muller is a hugely talented guy would be an enormous understatement. Not only is he an excellent singer/songwriter, but wait for this. He is a Quantitative Trader, starting and becoming C.E.O. of a multi-billion-dollar investment firm, and a philanthropist, a founding member of Math America and a Live Music Trustee. And if […]
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December 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Eunike Tanzil – The First of Everything (2025)
The Indonesian composer Eunike Tanzil has an interesting story. She was inspired to pursue film music when her father gave her an album of music by John Williams, who has made it to Medan in North Sumatra. Partly trained in the U.S., she has written music for The Addams Family 2 and the fantasy series […]
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December 26, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Queen Elizabeth – Now That I’m Different (2025)
Julian Cope’s Head Heritage label recently unearthed another entry in its “Ambient Autumn” series: the archival release Now That I’m Different by the experimental project Queen Elizabeth. Spanning recordings from 1990 to 2005, this album is less a traditional musical experience and more a raw, immersive sonic artifact. For those accustomed to conventional structure, this […]
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December 26, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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Boy & Bear – Tripping Over Time (2025)
Time felt a little different for Australian indie band Boy & Bear when they were working on their sixth studio album Tripping Over Time. The band got to record in their own studio for the first time, which gave them the freedom to be free of the pressure to perform on costly hired studio time […]
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December 26, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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John Calvin Abney – Transparent Towns (2025)
The sad truth about memory is that it’s inherently unreliable: when you access it, you’re not remembering the event itself so much as the last time you recalled it. It’s this malleability of history that John Calvin Abney wanted to focus on when it came to his seventh LP, Transparent Towns. “Damn the dust storm […]
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December 26, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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L’Antidote – L’Antidote (2025)
This trio unites the Lebanese pianist Rami Khalifé, Albanian cellist Redi Hasa and Iranian-French percussionist, saz and zarb goblet drum player Bijan Chemirani to explore a domain of sensitive acoustic composition. L’Antidote invest folk forms with a neo-classical air, playing with their surrounding space and savouring the creation of delightfully calming atmospheres. They make collective […]
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December 25, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Thomas Morgan – Around You Is a Forest (2025)
The open-minded, in-demand bassist Thomas Morgan takes an unforeseen and ambitious path in his highly conceptual debut as a leader, Around You is a Forest. At once intimate and spellbinding, the album features one solo performance and eight duets with a distinguished lineup of guests. What makes this project so remarkable is Morgan’s invention of […]
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December 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Citrus Citrus – In the Belly of the Eternal Draw (2025)
Nebulous, experimental psychedelia with an emphasis on being heavy as shit, the latest from Italian group Citrus Citrus isn’t afraid to spiral into the sonic cosmos or mine a good n’ doomgaze-y riff, and take its time while doing so (only a single track is less than three minutes long, and this is a whole […]
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December 25, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Phish – The Marquee, New York City, NY, December 28, 1990 (2025)
December 28th, 1990, at The Marquee was an interesting time and place for Phish. After making its NYC debut in the spring of 1988, the band bounced around various rooms — including eight shows at the legendary Wetlands Preserve — before making its debut at The Marquee for the band’s 13th career show in New […]
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December 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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The Far West – Everything We Thought We Wanted (2025)
The pitch for the music of The Far West, whose new album is their first since 2014, is “horribly painful songs that you can dance to”, according to bass player Robert Black. There is less pain, however, than resignation and expectation, but the arrangements often mask this. There are more swayalongs than hootenannies here, but […]
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December 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Cooper Kenward – ha ha, now i’m sad (2025)
ha ha, now i’m sad is LA-based Cooper Kenward’s third album after Cooper Kenward (2022) and Dying in a Diner (2024). It takes you back to the seventies, with its Steely Dan-like pop, and you can even hear an echo of 10CC at one point. It features some great songs and melodies, often accompanied by […]
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December 25, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Daniel Lopatin – Marty Supreme (Original Soundtrack) (2025)
Daniel Lopatin doesn’t score the Safdie brothers’ movies so much as open portals in them. In Good Time and Uncut Gems, his worship of all things kosmische created a peculiar contrast with the images on screen, drenching the brothers’ grainy tales of ’10s debauchery in the aura of an earlier time. Hospital hallways gleam with […]
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December 25, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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Ara Kekedjian – Bourj Hammoud Groove (2025)
Bourj Hammoud Groove celebrates the music of Armenian-Lebanese artist Ara Kekedjian, a key figure in shaping Beirut’s distinctive Estradayin pop sound. Blending disco rhythms, synth-pop textures and Armenian melodic traditions, Kekedjian crafted a sound both rooted in community and universal in appeal. …Born in 1946 in Bourj Hammoud, Lebanon, Ara became a central figure in […]
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December 25, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Susanna Mendlow – Travels with Cello (2025)
Living up to its titular promise, Susanna Mendlow‘s Travels with Cello features music from Georgia, Bulgaria, Argentina, Germany, and the United States. The hour-long travelogue’s distinguished by unaccompanied performances and ones partnering her, separately, with pianists Michael Angelucci and Stefan Petrov. Further enhancing the recording is the fact that some of the works are first […]
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December 25, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Wata Igarashi – My Supernova (2025)
An in-demand headliner in dark rooms worldwide and one of techno’s most distinctive producers, Wata Igarashi has achieved a perfect harmony between his work as a musician and a selector. Born in Tokyo in the late ’80s, with significant parts of his youth spent in England and Spain, he spent time in skate punk and […]
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December 24, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Ensemble 0 – L’Incroyable Femme Des Neiges (2025)
Sébastien Betbeder’s comedy-drama L’Incroyable Femme Des Neige (The Incredible Snow Woman) looks like a lot of fun based on the trailer, but don’t judge the film score by the trailer music. What Ensemble 0 (Sylvain Chauveau, Stéphane Garin & Joël Mérah) have composed is something tonally different: more subdued, as lighthearted as falling snow. …The […]
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December 24, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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[Ahmed] – [Sama’a] (Audition) (2025)
In April 2022, the wild and inquisitively wilful British free-jazz keyboardist Pat Thomas was improvising with his eyes shut in the company of his quartet [Ahmed] at Glasgow’s Glue Factory. The music was dedicated to the 1950s-70s legacy of the late Art Blakey and Thelonious Monk bassist, oud player and early global-music pioneer Ahmed Abdul-Malik, […]
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December 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Satoko Fujii GEN – Altitude 1100 Meters (2025)
With over a hundred album releases in her discography, featuring solo outings and big band bashes and everything in between, pianist-composer Satoko Fujii could be thought to have “done it all.” But there was a missing link. Strings. Though she had recorded in duet outings with violinists Mark Feldman and Carla Kihlstedt, she had never […]
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December 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM