“Conducting My Symphonic Anxiety” by Jimmy Verace is a symphonic piece in six parts, composed for a full orchestra. The music is intensely dramatic, progressing through a wide range of dynamics. With its epic-sounding orchestration, the album constantly conveys a struggle—a never-ending battle between darkness and light. The album opens with the grand and epic […]
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“Ribbon Blue” by Xenia At is a contemporary, mind-bending album, a collection of sound design, composition, synths and modulators, and hazy but brilliant vocals. The album consists of four vocal pieces and one instrumental piece, each of which touches the borders of musical anarchy. From contemporary classical, minimalism, and post industrialism to ambient, all have
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“Exceptional Chaos” by Ryan Saranich is a jazz-infused album from the space age. With six instrumental pieces, the album takes the audience on a musical journey through the mind of its creator. The pieces of the album are connected through their harmonic and melodic progressions. While each track on its own has a complete form,
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From Australia to Fiji and all around the world, Watermelon Boy and his associates have crafted one of the greatest albums I’ve ever heard. The Wow Signal will make you mouth “wow” with every song. It sounds amazing, combines many different styles, and presents them in such a satisfying way. It makes music production and friendship seem
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A mini-adventure, For those with itchy feet in motion at all times. With backpacks half-full for whatever the road might bring and an appetite for midnight gas station stories, we bring you Hard Sun by Eddie Vedder. A hitchhiker journey across the 50 states in the form of a song, Hard Sun transcends its musical
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Edward McCormack‘s “Daley: Olympic Superstar,” the soundtrack to the BBC2 documentary of the same name directed by Vadim Jean, is a complex and expansive classical music album. It creatively combines orchestral grandeur with electronic sounds and synths, underscoring the documentary’s exploration of the Olympian journey of Daley Thompson. Music as the soundtrack: In the realm
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“Searching for Colors” by Avinoam Ettun is a contemporary album that defies genre classification. The album features four pieces reminiscent of the four-movement structure of sonata form. In other words, this album is a symphony—a symphony of the new world. The first movement, “A Tale of Three Balloons,” is a classical contemporary piece that, with
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There is a type of experimental jazz that musicians make that shows off how great they can be. As a listener, it’s almost like solving a math problem. Crazy time signatures, instruments flowing in and out of different styles, and a flood of thoughts and feelings as you listen. It can be great to hear,
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Here we go… The War On Drugs – Pain. If you’ve ever thought of embarking on a cross-country drive in search of your high school sweetheart, who’s definitely a mom now and her husband owns a gun, with half a tank of gas and a mostly-caffeinated thought process at 3:00 in the morning, then Pain
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“True” by Pierre Flasse is an instrumental EP album, with the trombone playing the central role in each piece. The music in “True” is in a crossover classical style with strong influences from jazz and contemporary music. What makes “True” truly incredible is the masterful and flawless performance of the solo trombone by Pierre Flasse,
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