FLOOD

Over twenty tracks exceeding an hour, the album is a proper evolution of last year’s “Xen,” down to its waxen demonic artwork.

Following two albums of delightfully kaleidoscopic, woozy indie-pop, Youth Lagoon’s Trevor Powers casts some Boise daylight on what has been a pointedly inward operation up to the present.

The illusion of looseness is present in Vile’s nearly slurred phrasing, although the precision of his finger-picking and attention to production value suggests he is nothing if not fully aware of where he is going.

FLOOD 2 cover stars Big Boi and Phantogram talk about the making of their self-titled EP.

A portrait of the Beach Boys leader and Kennedy Center honoree on the occasion of Love & Mercy.

Kozelek is a very talented guitarist and an inspired lyricist, not to mention impressively candid.

Katie Crutchfield takes us through the tracks on her new record, and Merge debut, “Ivy Tripp”; plus, revisiting past relationships, the inspiration of Nicki Minaj, and the sublimity of her surroundings.

Though a front-loaded statement, “Nightmare” suggests that maybe, in addition to figuring himself out, Woodhead is discovering something essential for the rest of us, too.

Though a musical lifer, “Teaspoon To The Ocean” marks Jib Kidder’s first release on the currently vibrant scene of Weird World.

Now, with a title already alluding to the resolution of a sequence, Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper’s deeper and increasingly fluid explorations into the vernacular of electronic music have somewhat paradoxically surfaced a tether to the monastic origins of Lennox’s singular vocal style.

The future within (and without) the prognosticatory, labrythine musician in five questions.

What has instead materialized is a batshit Ariel Pink “solo” double album, pom pom, paradoxically culled from the most collaborative recording process of his career.

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