Shigeto From Matthew Dear to Gold Panda, School of Seven Bells and ADULT., the better-known artists on Ghostly International tend to be relatively danceable, or at least reasonably energetic. This package tour is a showcase for the imprint’s softer side,…

Quadron’s members seem to network as expertly as they make music: jazzy-voiced chanteuse Coco O. has been turning up everywhere from Odd Future records to The Great Gatsby soundtrack, while Robin Hannibal, probably best known as the producer/instrumentalist half of…

“Nuclear Seasons,” Charlotte Aitchison’s (pictured) broodingly anthemic breakout 2011 single, cast her in an intriguing, darkly twinkly electro-Goth light — co-signified by the song’s ominous title and, perhaps, her nonsensical Roman numerals. But the unexpectedly glittery, swooning chorus of last…

Scan the track list for Gold Panda’s forthcoming, curiously titled sophomore LP, Half of Where You Live (Ghostly International/Notown), and you’ll notice a clear preoccupation with residential-type places, from “An English House” and “The Most Liveable City” to seemingly invented…

The good folks at Daptone records are well established as loving inheritors of 1960s Southern soul, keeping post-millennial record racks stacked with Stax and Muscle Shoals wax facsimiles. But the latest from Charles Bradley — the toughest, rawest belter on…

Events Goat’s Swedish Experimental Fusion Is a Total Blast The deliberately shadowy Goat maintains an epic, absurd and presumably largely fabricated (or at least heavily mythologized) backstory involving a generations-old tradition of voodoo worship, communal living and collective music-making in…

Solo guitar records can be engrossing, meditative, gorgeously textural — and, to be sure, Impossible Truth (Merge) is all of the above — but it’s rare to find one as exuberantly vivid and lush as the second full-length opus from…

Electronic music has changed a lot since his first forays into playful lounge-jazz chill-out back around the turn of the millennium, but British producer Simon Green — alias Bonobo — has somehow kept his sound fresh and relevant without dramatically…

[ rock/pop ] Ten years into a surprisingly sturdy career, The Walkmen have gotten awfully soft in the middle. Last year’s Heaven (Fat Possum/Bella Union), the ever-more-anachronistically named band’s sixth full-length, feels breezily, blissfully inconsequential compared to the blistering broadsides…