Andy Bell wields guitar distortion in the shoegaze band called Ride. But on his new solo album, Pinball Wanderer, he takes a more dream pop, downtempo direction.
Flutist Nicholas Gunn casts back across his career with the album, 30, marking 30 years since Music from the Grand Canyon. He’s evolved a lot since then going from tribal to trance.
Flutist Nicholas Gunn casts back across his career with the album, 30, marking 30 years since Music from the Grand Canyon. He’s evolved a lot since then going from tribal to trance.
Opia by aeseaes, the Echoes July CD of the Month, leads the Top 25 list, with Mark Dwane, Quiet Resonance and Marcator, and 21 other great CDs, right behind.
Nicholas Gunn’s 30 is Echoes August CD of the Month. 30 is an expansive album that celebrates the 30 years of Gunn’s music evolution from New Age to electronica.
New music by C37. That’s the moniker of British electronic artist Paul Cudby, who has been making chilled vignettes for a few years now. He has a new album, Into Thin Air.
Air’s Moon Safari album gets an epic and ambient rework by Vegyn. It’s called Blue Moon Safari. Vegyn maintains the downtempo mood of the original but takes it into new atmospheres.
Mark Dwane, who died in July 2025, was an architect of sonic delights, a composer of epic adventures and a guitar-synth master. Here are five of his best recordings.
New music by Japanese Breakfast, the Philadelphia dream pop band fronted by Michelle Zauner. They have a new pastoral single off their album, For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women).