Blog & Features
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Record of the Month: Air — Moon Safari
Ten songs. Forty-three minutes. Air’s Moon Safari turned vintage keyboards, soft-focus strings and imagined space travel into one of electronic music’s most enduring debut albums.
Inside A La Altura: Meet Mexico’s Experimental Music Pioneers
Meet five of the musicians behind A La Altura—from Luis Pérez’s reconstructed pre-Columbian orchestra and Jorge Reyes’s ritual electronics to Ana Ruiz’s radical free jazz.
Featured Record: Isaac Hayes — Hot Buttered Soul
Four songs. Forty-five minutes. One of the most consequential accidents in soul music — and the record that taught hip-hop how to sound patient.
7 Underrated Reasons to Revisit Jeff Parker’s The New Breed (IA11 Edition)
Some albums don’t just sound good – they change how you hear music altogether. Jeff Parker’s The New Breed is one of those records: a modern classic that’s been quietly shaping...
Jazz for the Headphones Generation: Why GoGo Penguin’s New Album Deserves Your Full Attention
This Isn’t Jazz as You Know It – It’s a Full-Body Listening Experience We’ve had a sneak preview of GoGo Penguin’s upcoming album Necessary Fictions, and honestly? We haven’t stopped...
Zamrock Reimagined: WITCH’s SOGOLO and the Future of Psychedelic Rock
A Legacy Rekindled In the ever-crowded landscape of new releases and nostalgic reissues, few bands straddle past and future quite like WITCH. Once dubbed the “Zambian Beatles,” they were pioneers...
First Listen: 5 Things We Loved (and One Thing That Surprised Us) About Pulp’s More
After more than two decades, Pulp are back with More – a record that’s sharp, strange, and beautifully sincere. Here’s what we’re loving about it so far. It’s been 24...
How Carrie & Lowell Changed the Way We Talk About Grief in Music
When Carrie & Lowell was released in March 2015, it didn’t arrive with much fanfare. There were no elaborate visuals, no sweeping orchestral builds, no conceptual universe to decode. Instead, Sufjan...