Lars Gotrich
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The artist revisits five songs across his extensive discography of heavy shoegaze and dreamy rock and roll, processing life, faith and purpose.
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Black-metal screams and glitched vampiric beats rise to the surface on this effervescent two-minute banger.
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In Circuit des Yeux's Tiny Desk (home) concert — recorded at Chicago's historic May Chapel — Haley Fohr's operatic, four-octave vibrato contains a wondrous terror, but also an illumination of being.
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A deep listening experience from the ambient-jazz quartet.
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For her Tiny Desk (home) concert, Yasmin Williams keeps the background sparse to foreground her inventive playing.
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WBGO's Nate Chinen was joined by saxophonist Branford Marsalis and harpist Brandee Younger in a live conversation about this recently unearthed live recording.
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A groovy refinement of Dummy's influences — namely, the unclassifiable and impossibly cool pop music of Stereolab, Broadcast and Silver Apples.
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In 2 minutes and 20 seconds, Philly rave duo Ghösh turns the dance floor into a mosh pit.
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Maria Elena Silva's voice floats like a feather swishing this way and that, painting invisible shapes with the wind. Her music, spacious and exploratory, does the same.
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Resonant gongs, vibraphone, fluttering trumpet and groaning, synth-like transmissions from Aarset's guitar coalesce over the seven minutes of "Manta Ray."