La Guerra dei Cafoni

I’ve noticed that film audiences are more sensitive to “spoilers” than literary theorists, so I will just say a few … More

Recorded Security

Useless Sounds is a series I began in January 2019 to share unprocessed field-recordings. Stefan Christoff encouraged me to make … More

Leland Jackson has spent the last decade juggling two monikers, but there are many more than two sides to his … More

M. Sage ~ Data in the Details Regular readers of ACL might remember this excellent mix from last year, Half-Speed Flourish by … More

Sam Galloway and I co-wrote an article entitled “Queer Noise: Sounding the Body of Historical Trauma,” which was including in … More

Originally published at SSG Music Marion Lefebvre/Courtesy of the artist While in Paris during the summer of 2011, I … More

This post collects two previews written for Cult MTL. In honor of their upcoming 20th anniversary, I’ll be publishing a … More

Originally published at The Silent Ballet Heima The music of Sigur Rós has a way of impressing melancholy and hopefulness … More

Originally published at The Silent Ballet. In the years since his debut, Colin Stetson has gone on to critical acclaim … More

This is a compendium gathering posts originally published at A CLOSER LISTEN Old Bicycle Records ceased operations in 2016 (with … More

https://acloserlisten.com/2014/07/19/various-artists-for-syria/ Since the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire after the First World War, the Middle East seems to have … More