On our May CD of the Month, Californian Soil, the English trio London Grammar explore love, loss, feminism and America with their lush atmospheres and Hannah Reid’s intoxicating voice.
We get Shpongled when we talk to Simon Posford and Raja Ram of the psychedelic electronic duo, Shpongle. We’ll also hear an interview with A Winged Victory for the Sullen.
We’ll hear music by Dubmatrix from an EP called Dubmatix AKA which finds the band in chilled downtempo terrain. We’ll also hear from veteran progressive rock band Soft Machine.
Paul McCartney has reinvented his third solo album with new versions of the songs, featuring a different guest artist on almost every track. We’ll hear Phoebe Bridgers from McCartney III Imagined.
The 19th Icon of Echoes, Kraftwerk. We’ll hear from founder Ralf Hutter as well as Moby, Jean-Michel Jarre, Orbital and Conny Plank, looking back on a band that altered the course of music.
A Winged Victory for the Sullen is an ambient chamber music collaboration between Dustin O’Halloran and Adam Wiltzie. They explore dark terrain on their latest recording, Invisible Cities.
We get Shpongled when we talk to Simon Posford and Raja Ram of the psychedelic electronic duo, Shpongle. They talk about their hallucinogenic sound and their deep music backgrounds.
We hear from London Grammar, the seductive and serene dream pop band. The group talks about the explorations of love and politics that suffuse their new recording, Californian Soil.
Simon Posford of Shpongle has a new album of ambient moods, Flux & Contemplation, and Tom Holkenborg, a.k.a. Junkie XL, has a new soundtrack for White Lines. Go outside the lines on Echoes.
With vocal cut-ups and trip hop beats, the French composer Wax Tailor’s new album, The Shadow of their Suns, slices and dices social injustice in the 21st century.