Blog & Features
Reviews, recommendations, and the odd rabbit hole — written by the people behind the counter.
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.
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...
So You Want to Start Collecting Records (Without Becoming a Snob)
There’s something undeniably satisfying about dropping the needle on a record and hearing your favourite album come to life – warm, full of texture, and just a little bit crackly....
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...
Marvin Gaye's What's Going On at 53: A Soul Classic That Shaped Music and Defined a Movement
Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On is more than just a classic album we all know and love – it’s testament to the power of music as both art and activism....
Love’s Forever Changes: The Psychedelic Masterpiece That Almost Never Was
A Psychedelic Album Unlike Any Other By 1967, psychedelic rock was in full bloom. The Beatles had delivered Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Doors were breaking through, and...