Back to Moon Beach Kurt Vile (Verve Forecast, 2023) If you’re not listening to Kurt Vile’s latest release, the EP Back to Moon Beach, on repeat, you need to...
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Phasor Helado Negro (4AD, 2024) Phasor, the eighth studio album from electronic musician Roberto Carlos Lange (stage name Helado Negro), was born out of two...
Goodbye, Hotel Arkada Mary Lattimore (Ghostly International, 2023) Harpist Mary Lattimore’s new album Goodbye, Hotel Arkada is six tracks of spacious...
Javelin Sufjan Stevens (Asthmatic Kitty, 2023) Sufjan Stevens is the rare songwriter still wrestling with Christianity’s full emotional range. Without leaving...
I Am Not There Anymore The Clientele (Merge Records, 2023) Odds are you remember the complex feelings of being riveted, exhilarated, and challenged when you...
The Age of Pleasure Janelle Monáe (Atlantic, 2023) With the ease of having absolutely nothing to prove, Janelle Monáe departs from the complex allegorical...
3D Country Geese (Partisan Records, 2023) If you don’t listen too carefully, 3D Country—the sophomore record from Brooklyn-based indie rock band Geese—might be...
Growing up in West Texas, I was accustomed to conservative Christianity from a very young age. Not necessarily a doctrinal conservatism; most Christians I knew...
Lover’s Game The War and Treaty (UMG Recordings, 2023) There’s something about a wife and husband singer/songwriter duo crooning about life together that is...
Seventeen young men and two little girls in Teotitlán del Valle, a small Zapotec pueblo in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, have made what’s called a promesa (a...
