With more confidence, sparseness and sharpness, Julia Jacklin’s The Gem features some of her most direct and affecting songs yet.

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Their compilation albums have already given us one excuse to rummage around in The Leaf Library’s cupboards. Four years ago, writing about Library Music:

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In 2022 my country entered a new era of cruelty. It will take more than one election to get the old, tolerant Sweden back, writes Swedish journalist Martin Gelin

Sibille Attar appears to be entering her crimson period. Gone are the multi-pastel shades she chose to paint herself on her last English language release A

The songs on A Hole To See The Sky Through are meticulous, often beautiful and occasionally magical. The trouble is that, by the end, there isn't much left to discover peering through the hole.

Nina Winder-Lind knows whose records she has been living inside, and exactly why not one of them was written with her in mind. Her answer isn't to make peace, but to take the guitar, the phrasing, the...

Nina Winder-Lind knows whose records she has been living inside, and exactly why not one of them was written with her in mind. Her answer isn't to make peace, but to take the guitar, the phrasing, the...

"The crushing black vacuum of the universe." — Cormac McCarthy, The Road Everything before it a slow walk toward that line, everything after it the sound of trying to survive inside it. Everything Wi...

If I Let It Quiet never fully silences the noise it's named for, but it understands the difference between silence and peace.

Salt Lake City-based singer-songwriter Josaleigh Pollett (any/all pronouns) releases their fourth full-length album, If I Let It Quiet this week. A deeply

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Bingo! finds La Sécurité expanding outward, but never loses its sense of fun, even when it's toying with something heavier.

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Part Chimp are here: lumpen, horrible, weirdly funny and apparently here to “fuck with your dreams”. This is stoner-rock with a grinning smile full of wonky, bloodied teeth.

Zoh Amba left Kingsport, Tennessee at seventeen and didn't stop moving for years. First San Francisco, then New York, where they built a reputation as one of

Zoh Amba left Kingsport, Tennessee at seventeen and didn't stop moving for years. First San Francisco, then New York, where they built a reputation as one of

I Built You a Tower is one of the most personally exposed records Death Cab have made, but its impact will depend on the listener’s patience for sadness that no longer feels young.

Let's be honest. Brighton's The Great Escape can be hard work.

The poetry of Jesca Hoop’s difficult-to-define Long Wave Home, and its secretive, almost arcane atmosphere, is in its beautiful simplicity.