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Copenhagen-based composers Jason Dungan (Blue Lake) and Johan Carøe join forces on Routine, a quietly transportive collection of ambient folk and new age soundscapes shaped through an exchange of musical fragments.

Panamint began as a studio experiment between longtime collaborators Anna St.

In his classic book Mythologies, French thinker Roland Barthes criticizes plastic because it can be molded into anything—cheap, colorful surfaces open to infinite transformation.

Cork trio Ana Palindrome make a hypnotic blend of art-pop, droning vocals, sawing fiddle, and glitchy folktronica on “A MAN A CURE,” their first release for London’s World of Echo.

Trick or treat.

Earlier this year, Boards of Canada unexpectedly released their fifth album Inferno, a case of an influential artist demonstrating that their style remains eminently relatable in 2026 a.d.

Our guest this week on the show, Ishmael Butler of Shabazz Palaces and Digable Planets, is used to swimming in waters where science fiction weirdness and musical expression mingle.

The music of autumn comes in many shades, but none of them without a little smoke and shadow.

More than 50 years after releasing one of the great cult albums of the early ’70s, Willis Alan Ramsey remains an enigma: a singular songwriter whose long-awaited second record has yet to materialize.

Like the best giallo scores, Surprise Chef's Frogs In A Pond finds beauty in the uneasy marriage of the sinister and the seductive.

This Halloween when the usual horror soundtrack fare begins to feel a little too familiar, there is Valerie and Her Week of Wonders.

About midway through Psycho II (1983), you realize you’re not watching a horror sequel, but a carefully constructed character study.

Experimental music history is still, in large part, a Euro-American project.

After a pair of excellent albums fronting his New Orleans quartet Silver Synthetic, last year's Painters Street saw musician and vocalist Chris Lyons venturing into promising solo pathways.

Jimmy Webb has written some of the great songs in the modern American songbook.

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On his second album as Ghost Dubs, German producer Michae Fiedler pares his beats and grooves further back, reducing his already minimal palette to the stark rhythmic and textural fundamentals.

This week on Transmissions, we're speaking with return guest Joe Casey of Protomartyr.

No retreat.

A Continuous Broadcast from Aquarium Drunkard.

Mid-October approaches, and the owls are not what they seem.

Jazz grip.

Freeform transmissions from Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard on dublab.

No one is making music quite like PAINT, the project of musician and Allah-Las guitarist Pedrum Siadatian.

Piero Umiliani’s Il Corpo is the sound of something beautiful beginning to sour.

Hippies, Thugs, and Heroes finds guitarist Richard Thompson sounding as savage, lyrical, and eloquent as ever.

Beefheart & McQuinn’s Midtown Downtime arrived earlier this year as a ten-song distillation of folk-rock’s softer, more unhurried pleasures.

Fog lifting off San Francisco’s Victorian rooftops, twelve-string guitars catching the morning light, and the ghost of a California that exists somewhere between memory and myth.