Patrick Shiroishi - Descension LPPatrick Shiroishi's Descension is a beautifully elegiac and unflinchingly primal album. With richly layered solo saxophone, electronics, and voice, the album is a meditation on the legacy of a dark history and its echoing relevance in the present era. Descension is a spiritual journey that reveals Shiroishi's deeply reflective and unique musical vision. Over the past decade Shiroishi has established himself as one of the key artists in Los Angeles's

anger that migrant children are being separated from their parents and being held in concentration camps again

Debut vinyl from this Gothenburg band of 18-year olds

Paul's McCartney by SPF Recorded in Oakland and San Francisco last year

The details are lost to me now

As we well know

Gothenburg’s Makthaverskan have always seemed to escape traditional genre definition

Carefully remastered from the master tapes

Outlines opens with a loop of a distant subway car approximating time

For a decade

as she does on the last song of FELT

Combining piano and voice with found sound and a custom-built Serge modular synthesizer

Few bands can be convincingly accused of pushing the decrepit body of rock music into the future