Modern Composition

Ben Chatwin

Staccato Signals

PUBLISHED Jul 5, 2018

For as long as there has been electronic music, there have been musicians determined to produce work that's respected the way classical mus...

Michael Abels

Get Out (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

PUBLISHED Jun 25, 2018

Jordan Peele's 2017 directorial debut, Get Out, was a hit, to say the least, exposing us all to "the Sunken Place," whether we were ready f...

Queer Songbook Orchestra

Anthems and Icons

PUBLISHED Jun 18, 2018

Queer aesthetics claim space through the sidelong glance, and the slightly too long stare. Often they rework a canon in order to make space...

Leon Vynehall Ditched the Dance Floor and Wrote a Novella to Inspire Debut Album 'Nothing Is Still'

PUBLISHED Jun 15, 2018

"No journey starts or ends. Journeys only unravel outwards," reads the first line of Nothing Is Still, a novella by electronic music produc...

Snorri Hallgrimsson

Orbit

PUBLISHED Jun 15, 2018

This new effort by Reykjavik composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Snorri Hallgrímsson is breathtaking. Every one of these ten piec...

Johnny Jewel

Themes for Television

PUBLISHED Jun 7, 2018

There's no question Johnny Jewel had an immense impact on the sonic remapping of David Lynch's Twin Peaks revival. Not only was his music u...

Godspeed You! Black Emperor / Marisa Anderson

Vogue Theatre, Vancouver BC, June 4

PUBLISHED Jun 5, 2018

In a rare Vancouver tour stop supporting their latest monolith of an album, Luciferian Towers, it was no surprise that legendary Canadian m...

Eartheater

IRISIRI

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2018

In 2015, Guardian Alien member Alexandra Drewchin dropped a pair of cassettes for the Hausu Mountain imprint, the highly acclaimed Metaleps...