In a time when big name acts of previous decades fill stadiums with their comeback tours, relentless nostalgia has become an industry of its own. The familiarities of the past providing a sort of cultural comfort blanket. There’s nothing inherently wrong with a bit of nostalgia, but mining an earlier era as an artistic source, can quickly put an artist in a particular bracket.
Singer-songwriter and all-round jazztronica sensation Anna Stubbs aka Kinzoogianna joyously avoids the pitfalls of retro-ism with The Clique of ’86, her second solo effort. On this fun and deeply gratifying set of tracks, she couples forward-looking contemporary jazz with a multitude of ’80s styles and sonic inflections to deliver a musical experience that is tongue…
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A steady drip of aqueous, IDM-tinted techno has earned Dominican producer Boundary, born Josué Suero, a place at the vanguard of Santo Domingo’s electronic scene. After picking up a copy of Ableton at 16, the young artist quickly established a signature sound: taut basslines, blockish low-fidelity timbres, and a keen sense of momentum that elevates the standard four-on-the-floor pulse. 
Drummer Kate Gentile is a restlessly innovative improviser and composer who does not shy away from pushing boundaries. In the equally adventurous guitarist Marc Ducret and experimenting saxophonist Jeremy Viner, she has found kindred spirits. Together, they make up the collaborative 
Gloom, glorious gloom, permeates the musical catalogue of singer-songwriter 
Legendary saxophonist Don Dietrich and his powerhouse cellist daughter Camille Dietrich collide in 
“I became interested in the idea that recording is a bottomless medium,” explains multi-instrumentalist 
Songs introduces 
“Feels like all I ever do is try / And try again,” 
Not everything is Twin Peaks, but Rockie does kinda feel like the album Donna Hayward would make if she could pursue her musical ambitions: She’d be influenced by Julee Cruise, for sure, and probably Chromatics, and Sky Ferreira, and what could be more Badalamentian than the cloudburst of synth that opens “On Our Knees”? Maybe you feel like you’ve seen this show before, but it’s actually the spooky and charming debut from New York songwriter Cate Osborne, aka Rockie Rode, an unassuming indie-pop record with the aura of a vintage cult classic.
We always want life to make sense, yet despite our best efforts, it does not. This is the starting point for Asymmetry, which distills a lifetime of thoughts and emotions into 88 keys. 
…Close to a century ago Virginia Woolf captured duration and sensation in flux in her 1928 novel Orlando in a line 
Setting aside initial plans for a second chapter of THE HARP,