Consistency may be disparaged as staid, or celebrated as style. “Art is the place where liking what we like, over and over, is not only allowed but is the essential skill,” writes George Saunders in A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, asking, “How emphatically can you like what you like? How long are you willing to work on something, to ensure that every bit of it gets infused with some trace of your radical preference?”
For a house-music producer, it seems around a decade of emphatic consistency really gets the goods. It’s been 13 years since Maya Bouldry-Morrison’s first album as Octo Octa and 10 since she came out as trans — or, as she puts it in the closing poem of her fourth and latest LP, Sigils for Survival, started “finally living life.”
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Chicago’s 
Of all the artists that emerged from the freak folk/New Weird America boom of the early noughties, Colorado-born 
…includes live recordings from the Orchestral FM4 Radio Session, Radio Eins Session and three new remixes; ‘Patterns’ (BOKKA Remix), ‘City Walls’ (Last Chance Remix) and ‘Wake Up Strange’ (Four Horsemen Remix).
Despite its somewhat generic name, jazz trio 
Kristen Gallerneaux’s Life Day unfolds as a sonic study in recurrence. Not repetition in any formal or minimalist sense, but more a return to a condition: a pulse, a signal, a state of suspended awareness that doesn’t fully resolve into stable time. The album’s six tracks don’t so much sit alongside as flow into each other, like unstable signals rather than discrete transmissions. They feel less composed than remembered, as though surfacing from within a foggy haze.
In Greek mythology, when the gods grant King Midas the power to turn everything he touches into gold, what first seems like a wish come true slowly becomes a curse.
There’s a sense in 
…includes the entirety of their ‘Moderate Air Quality’ EP as bonus tracks.
It can take years to develop the kind of band chemistry you can hear straight away, the kind that’s all over 
John Dwyer launches 
A tribute to a tribute? During the final mix sessions for Peggy Suicide, Cope invited some musicians to Ramport Studio to celebrate the album’s completion. He called this late-night-party recording session 
From the very first note, 
They tell you not to judge a book by its cover, but what if that cover tells you what it is? In the concrete poem that adorns the vinyl sleeve of Ben Vida’s