Tunic’s A Harmony of Loss Has Been Sung is a meatgrinder of syncopated distortion, clarity of grief, unfiltered lyrics, raw textured instruments, and hard hitting repetition. It’s no wonder this album of disparate sensations provides a release, a mode of muted catharsis as the sound they produce scratches at the air, grasping for it.
The composition of the record is complex, but straightforward, a dry sound that’s a rich and a refreshing taste in how the band dictates the empty spaces of sound.
Spacing is essential in this record which is noticeably different from their previous albums, Wrong Dream (2023), Quitter (2021), and Exhaling (2021). These previous albums felt like a desire to fill the space of sounds, unrelenting,…
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Leading figure of modern ambient 
In 2017, Los Angeles multi-instrumentalists 
Eve Adams has a soft, carrying voice, one that commands the swirl and sweep of her songs effortlessly, at a murmur. There’s a cool, unharried elegance to her delivery, a remove. Nothing surprises her in these elliptical, occasionally lurid sketches — whether of late-night carousing, a fatal love affairs or climate apocalypse. The comparisons to Julee Cruise only go so far. They fail to account for the endearing catch, the bluesy growl in the way she’ll accent a vocal line, but you can see where they come from.
After a break and a series of deeply unfortunate events, the California trio 
If the 1970s were when power pop was invented and made into one of the more exciting styles of music around, and even occasionally very popular, the ’80s were when the style permeated the music scene as it split into multiple tendrils of guitar-based pop. Following up on their excellent collection 
Before he released this, his second full-length as 
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In the liner notes for his seminal album Music for Airports, Brian Eno wrote that ambient music “must be as ignorable as it is interesting.” Before him, French composer Erik Satie, whose musique d’ameublement (‘furniture music’) prefigured ambient, reportedly used to get angry if his compositions drew too much attention. Ambient music, then, has long occupied a strange space. It should reward deep listening without demanding it; operate with presence, but not insistence.
In keeping with the albums he’s released recently under his given name (following nine full-length albums under various project names), 
Colombia’s 
After their excellent reissue that centered on non-LP and unreleased songs recorded between 1988 and 1990 at Noise New York studio, the Silver Current label has unearthed another excellent treasure from 
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