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Thirty years before Kanye dug up the Roland drum machine for 808s & Heartbreak, 10 years before Aphex Twin’s breakout studio album Selected Ambient Works 85–92, and five before Phuture released the 12-minute cornerstone of acid house music, “Acid...

Another year, another move further away from caring about pop. Whether that's pop's fault or mine, I'm not sure. But there was still plenty of great new music released in 2015, and here, according to my idiosyncratic tastes, are the best albums, or at...

Back in 1994, British journalist Simon Reynolds coined the term “post-rock” to describe the atmospheric, jazz-inflected experimental music of the London band Bark Psychosis. The name resonated through the indie rock community, and before long, critics...

Usually when pop music creates the illusion of functionalism, it’s an effect of genre exercise — of inhabiting a preexisting form so fully that one’s artistic message, whatever that might be, becomes indistinguishable from utter mastery of formal convention...

Photo Credit: Raymond Flotat 2016 was a year in which trends held and proper, traditional album releases have continued to be lose importance and focus, while the music world revolves more and more around customized playlists and streaming services...