Horse Lords make instrumentals that are largely unlike anything you’ve heard before but through clever and deliberate planning, make wildly disparate songs that draw you in all the same.

Released 25 years ago this week, Tortoise’s self-titled album still evokes a mood.

‘Beacons of Ancestorship’ has been around for a decade now, and I still can’t decide about Tortoise’s very modern musical style.

With ‘Vertigo’ as with their 17 prior albums, The Necks reveals its secrets in enticing ways over the course of one long, enchanting track.

This majestic, simmering music is a captivating soundtrack looking for an epic film.

Cavity Fang sprung from the fertile mind of keyboardist and composer Michael Coleman. You May Also Like: Michael Coleman + Ben Goldberg – Practitioner (2018)

Patrick Cress’ brainchild Mercury Falls is back again three years after they debuted with a project I previously opined that in their alchemy of jazz and alt-rock, “these guys figured it out right from the start.” You May Also Like: Ivo Perelman, Mark Helias + Tom Rainey – ‘Truth Seeker’Read More

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZouAjbtd7Q&w=420&h=315] Pianist Adam Kromelow has long studied karate, and upon reading that little fact I could immediately draw a parallel between the disciplined power and fluidity of the martial arts and Kromelow’s music You May Also Like: Adam Steffeck – Aviator (2017) Adam Larson – Second City (2017)

Part George Winston, part Ben Folds, part the Bad Plus, the Neil Cowley Trio is a mighty mixture of elegance, attitude and wit. This week, we will be treated to more of that alchemy You May Also Like: Natalie and Zachary Wilksch, “Can’t Get Your Face Off My Mind” (2018):Read More

When it comes to boy/girl musical acts, there’s nothing typical at all about Washington, D.C.-based duo Janel & Anthony. They don’t sing, they don’t play jazz, they sure as hell don’t play pop You May Also Like: Mark Anthony K on Projekt Gemineye’s ‘A Brand New Day’: ‘A Little MoreRead More