Monthly Archives: May, 2020

Anastasia Rydlevskaya makes rage feel methodical on Alchemia. Her fourth full-length album takes the four classical stages of alchemy and turns them into a hard-edged account of betrayal, trauma and feminine power. Nigredo, Albedo and Calcinatio, Citrinitas, then Rubedo each push the heroine into a new state. The result sits firmly in dark electronic music, but it also carries experimental pop and pagan motifs. That framing...

Hamish has delivered "Singing In My Soul," an irrepressibly warm single that offers a welcoming preview of his upcoming full-length album, "Significant Others." At 53, the Stroud-based songwriter well-known to festivalgoers as the founder of Glastonbury’s fabled Rabbit Hole brings three decades of UK countercultural life to the table, leaning naturally into the open-hearted storytelling traditions of Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell. https://open.spotify.com/track/6Hxy4AA8PWgCgL7tiho8Ki?si=xa3I5EkBTGeF7mjQQIvYkQ Conceived while hitchhiking...