For almost a decade now, South London artist Klein has been a compelling figure at the very vanguard of British avant-garde music.
Ever since Tommy, her scrambled, glitching breakthrough EP released on Hyperdub in 2017, her fractious sound collages – tapestries of steely, shuddering textures and disembodied vocals – have earmarked her as an artist who really gets the paranoia and neuroses of the age in which she is working. Meanwhile, her prankster tendencies have ensured that you simply never know what she’s going to get up to next.
But in spite of the many accolades her music has won her, the legions of famous fans and collaborators she’s accrued – Arca, MIKE, and The Avalanches, to name a few – Klein’s…
You need to be logged in to view the rest of the content. Please Log In.
Anna Atkins, the 19th century botanist and photographer whose Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions is widely regarded as the first photographic book, made her images by placing algae directly onto paper coated with a light-sensitive solution. Where the plant blocked the ultraviolet light, the paper remained white. Everywhere else, it turned the deep Prussian blue that gives the process its name. At the center of each image, the algae’s fronds produced their own negative.
This is an intriguingly hard-to-pin-down debut from London’s 
Whatever’s in the water in Ireland right now needs to be studied. 
For their fifth album, Here Lies Love / Sawdust to Stardust, Lawrence Rothman has brought an ‘A‘ list of collaborators, including Madi Diaz, Amanda Shires, Katie Pruitt, Jason Isbell and Jillian Jaqueline. Written and recorded in Biarritz, France, and Nashville, Tennessee, and produced and mixed entirely by Rothman himself, the album leans to the darker side of Americana in its tone, with rich, deep vocals from Rothman, reminiscent of Nick Cage, and arrangements at times in Hannah Aldridge/southern gothic mould.
Not only outside the music industry but within its margins (much less frequently at its very core), there are those for whom music is one of several activities to pursue. It’s a question not only related to the increasing difficulty of living off music without a head start, but also to personal circumstances and lifestyle choices.
The Suitcase Junket is a one-man band powered by guitarist and singer-songwriter Matt Lorenz, whose first album, Sever and Lift (2010), told the world that, among other things, dudes who make music simultaneously with a guitar and other contraptions are still around. Taking his moniker from the suitcase that serves as a kick drum and bench, Lorenz spent the 2010s steadily releasing blues and roots albums that reflected his solitary approach. His 2020 album, 
As a duo, 
The listener is easily startled by 
A Simple Man is album number 20 for American contemporary jazz saxophonist 
Multiple BMA nominee and daughter of the legendary Rufus Thomas, sister of Carla Thomas, Vaneese Thomas remains one of the more elegant, yet soulful representatives of soul-blues. Vaneese has branched out from her Memphis roots to deliver contemporary blues, gospel, R&B, and a thriving career as a background vocalist for the biggest rock and pop stars. She’s been at her craft for over four decades, working also as a writer, producer, and arranger. Thomas has never lost her Memphis roots although most of her recent recordings have originated in the New York area. That sense of earned wisdom, an inherent feel for the blues, and the ability to naturally, even effortlessly ride the grooves, comes through on Window to My Soul, one of her…
Rhode Island native, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Phil Madeira is celebrating 50 years as a professional musician. Madeira is likely best known as the multi-instrumentalist in the Red Dirt Boys, Emmylou Harris’s backup band for the past 18 years. Americana aficionados recognize him as the steadfast keyboardist and guitarist for Buddy Miller and Julie Miller in the late ’90s and early 2000s.
…This deluxe reissue returns Paulusma’s celebrated debut to the spotlight, pairing the original 11-track album with five bonus recordings from the same prolific writing period. Three of these – ‘Orion’s Belt’, ‘Two Stars’, and ‘Leave Your Keys’ – originally appeared as sought-after B-sides during the album’s 2004 single campaign, while ‘My Errant Knight’ and ‘Pentecostosis’, written and recorded alongside the album itself, are released here for the very first time.
On 
About a decade passed between the release of Australian artist 
Barcelona joins Helsinki 2003 as the second concert from the Rising tour released in the Live Archive series, though the two releases stand apart in meaningful ways. As outlined in the essay that accompanied its release, Helsinki was liberated from a proprietary DSD recording system used across the 2002-03 tour, though curiously (and fortunately) not Barcelona.