Author: pitchfork

The young Dutch electronic producer Pascal Terstappen has numerous assets, any one of which would be enough to build a strong aesthetic. He has a keen ear for melody, a terse, supple way with rhythm programming, and a sensitive...

As Lady Lazarus, California dreamer Melissa Ann Sweat crafts intimate miniatures, mostly for solo voice and electric piano, and then slowly drowns them in oceans of reverb. As short patterns of chords or intervals revolve...

The Spinto Band had the portfolio of power pop lifers before they had ever made a widely available album. When 2005’s wry, multi-hued, and remarkably enduring Nice and Nicely Done came out via Bar/None, the Delaware band...

Three weeks after Clogs released The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton in March 2010, the woman for whom it was named died. Lady Susana Walton had been married to the composer Sir William Walton. She created their home, the...

Kansas City musician Matt Hill, who returns to Not Not Fun for the release of this fourth album under his Umberto alias, is still searching for a suitably blood-soaked visual counterpart to his glossy electronic work....