Midnight Sister's debut LP, 2017's Saturn Over Sunset, felt like some lost classic from the moment it came out. Matching the adrogynous vocals of Juliana Giraffe to the giddy, woody orchestrations of…

The 21st Annual IPU Albums-of-the-Year Countdown.

On her second EP, Nilüfer Yanya wielded a title that was a pointed question: Do You Like Pain?

Now, on her latest EP, the 25-year-old English artist is posing another surprisingly-deep, deeply philosphical…

Cuushe – Japanese musician Mayuko Hitotsuyanagi – has just released her fourth album, Waken. It marks a return: it's Hitotsuyanagi's first Cuushe LP in seven years, and first major release since her…

Since going solo as Memphis LK, Memphis Kelly – the 27-year-old Melburnian producer and vocalist – has turned out a string of killer singles: Roses, Green Light, and Letters In Concrete…

Dirty Projectors have had a busy 2020. Well, release-wise. Dave Longstreth – the 38-year-old American who's led the shape-shifting project across two decades and nine albums – has been at home in Los…

Sometimes, Emel Mathlouthi thinks she should've just stayed in a metal band. The 38-year-old Tunisian singer-songwriter — who's found international acclaim for her experimental, electronic folk — cut her musical teeth, two decades…

Southern Shores make "escapist music". The Canadian electronic duo —Jamie Townsend and Ben Dalton, based these days in Toronto— fashion soundscapes of "layer and mood", atmospheres of instruments and samples so thick and…

Sam Amidon's new seventh album is self-titled. The 39-year-old American folksinger decided on this name by way of a simple rationale: "A few of the songs on these record are songs that I…

For his new album, Sunday Rock Song Stock, Yves Jarvis recorded outside. Living as artist-in-residence at The Tree Museum —an artspace and "expansive hike destination" north of Toronto, in rural Ontario— Jarvis…