Cloudspeakers

Jonathan Meiburg finds in the tiny Micronesian atoll of Bikini such a close affinity with his own personal obsessions that one can somehow find a way to excuse that utopian plenitude which graces t... Read more

Sigh.Let me say, straight off, that if you like brilliant musicianship for it’s own sake, you should listen to this album. Because that aspect is insane. Seriously. But after the brilliant-if-defin... Read more

Eight months isn’t a particularly long time, but it’s marked a whole lot of changes for jj. The mystery surrounding the group is completely and totally gone; we now know that jj consist... Read more

Sloan has always been kinda retro, so it’s been fun watching them transition into a full-on internet band. The fuzzy nostalgia for analog tape has given way to twitterings, Blip.fm, and a website... Read more

Phantogram is an electro-pop duo from Saratoga Springs, New York that recorded their Barsuk debut, Eyelid Movies, in a barn in the woods, or something, but they sound closer to an electro-pop duo s... Read more

Neither Wikipedia nor the OED has a precise definition of what constitutes a “poindexter,” but to once again bring to mind Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart’s famous riff on obscenity, I k... Read more

It’s becoming increasingly common for smaller labels to release their mixed compilations in two simultaneous formats, to offer both an en bloc MP3 and an unmixed set of tracks. Sometimes you get ... Read more

BT (Brian Wayne Transeau) is one of the most infuriating names in dance music, not because he has never lived up to his potential, but because he fulfilled it almost immediately. After emerging fro... Read more

The so-called chillwave scene’s been thriving heavily of late, which, as far as I can tell, means a lot more exposure given to bands who sound like a travel-sized M83. The initial taste left ... Read more

After some minimal piano experiments and incredible ambient albums Eluvium’s Matthew Cooper gained some new fans but threw off some old ones with 2007’s Copia. Cooper was attempting to ... Read more