Lo-fi Folk Artist Wilhelm Trades Complex Arrangements for Raw Intimacy in Third Album "Wake Me In The Sunrise" Wilhelm has drawn people in again with his new album "Wake Me in the Sunrise". This record is a unique mix of real feeling and stories. After the success of his 2023 song "The Creek," Wilhelm has taken a more simple approach that puts emotional lyrics ahead of...

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...