The emerging Cleveland duo Silent Lions return this week with a very intriguing new follow-up to last year’s EP The Parliaments. Clocking in at over eight minutes, the “ripe•people” single, released on the band’s Nah Collective label, finds Dean Tartaglia and Matt Klein packing this monster track with more ideas than some bands can find for an entire album! “ripe•people” [...]

A gorgeous, rural ambience drones from Date Palms‘ “Yuba Reprise“, and one has the feeling of watching a giant glowing sun set as Marielle Jakobsons‘ violin and Michael Elrod‘s tanpura radiate a majestic calm. Like some sort of crepuscular raga, the track is imbued with a sense of the organic as it’s drones create wide rolling spaces for sun-soaked melodic [...]

More exquisite magick from Julia Holter this week! The artist is preparing to release her third LP Loud City Song, via Domino Records on August 20th. This will be Holter’s first studio recording, and we are told that the nine songs on the new record pre-date those on her 2011 debut Tragedy. Inspired by Collette’s 1944 novella Gigi, she uses [...]

Ken Camden is a Chicago guitarist who plays with the quartet Implodes, as well as recording under his own name. Kranky will release his newest offering of celestial ambience, Space Mirror, on July 29th. While it’s true that Eta Carinae is a star system in the Carina constellation thousands of light years from the sun, Camden’s “Eta Carinae” finds that [...]

Deafheaven will release their new 2xLP Sunbather via Deathwish Inc. on June 11th. Written by Deafheaven’s primary members, vocalist George Clarke and guitarist Kerry McCoy, the duo added drummer Daniel Tracy for the recording, while working with producer/engineer Jack Shirley (Funeral Diner, Comadre) this past January to record the album. In discussing it’s title, Clarke has stated that it is [...]

Julia Holter‘s stunning 2011 debut Tragedy gets a vinyl-only release by Domino Records today. The 2xLP was initially released in two batches of 500 by the LA label Leaving Records, and Holter’s exemplary and unique work, inspired by Euripides’ Hippolytus, utilized an impressive palette of electronic and acoustic instrumentation that included, “voice, synths, drum machines, piano, cello, saxophone, samples, vocoders, [...]

Arizona’s Destruction Unit will unleash their new 7″ Two Strong Hits July 16th as part of Suicide Squeeze‘s Singles Series. On “Sonic Pearl” the Tempe five-piece surfs walls of sound so massive and energized that they seem constantly on the brink of crashing over the edge into total chaos. Indeed, quite the thrilling ride! Looks like this 7″ will be [...]