Kayla Marie Pulver steps into the shadow of "Indigo Night" not to displace the original, but to repaint the walls of its cavernous structure with a distinctly feminine, haunting lacquer. Covering a track known for its princely emotiveness is a bold move like deciding to re-architect a Gothic cathedral but Pulver strips away the grandiosity in favor of something far more insidious and creeping. https://open.spotify.com/album/4EXgEIzOqcCQSpspEhPhzY?si=QR_97jSCTem-5XnSium9aA The...

I spent a solid hour this morning watching dust motes suspended in a single shaft of sunlight, my entire nervous system held absolutely captive by Magdi Aboul-Kheir and his devastatingly immersive new album, "Slow Heat". The Germany-based journalist and classically trained pianist usually writes across a massive spectrum of genres, pivoting wildly from trance to late romanticism. Today, he has dropped an ambient, contemporary...