Forest-inspired improvisations, voices transformed into digital fantasias, and the final works of minimalist Phill Niblock. Explore September’s best contemporary classical music, where adventurous composers keep finding new ways to make us listen.
New & Notable: Drifting dreampop from Athens with cloudlike layers of guitar and gently insistent vocal melodies.
New & Notable: Breathless dance music from Gipsyan & RAVL driven by breakneck rhythms and lit up by sharp electronic flashes.
New & Notable: "Saturn Return" offers richly layered alt-pop songs that shimmer and soar.
New & Notable: Marina Herlop returns to push against the edges of electronic pop, emerging with complex yet irresistibly hooky songs with no equal.
Clanging guitars, tangled rhythms, and a proudly nerdy streak. Revisit D.C. noise-rock quartet Pitchblende’s brief, brilliant run as a new reissue of “Kill Atom Smasher” honors late guitarist Justin Chearno and brings their debut back to vinyl.
New & Notable: Easygoing folk-influenced pop music from Dan Croll that considers life's questions against a relaxed musical backdrop.
Album of the Day: Margo Cilker, "Little White Cross." The folk artist's third record is strengthened by a focus on feeling and storytelling.
Essential Releases: Eerie video game ambience, ’90s club euphoria played on pipe organ, and rock ’n’ roll heartbreak. Dig into five albums the Bandcamp Daily crew can’t stop listening to this week.
At 80, Dave Holland is still moving jazz forward. The bassist and bandleader reflects on his years with Miles Davis, a lifetime of collaboration, and the restless curiosity behind his new live box set, “Freedom Call.”
New & Notable: A mix of field recordings, ambient, and jazz for music that exists somewhere between documentary and improvisation.
New & Notable: The Ohio group evoke the bluesy psychedelia of Spacemen 3 on their epic latest release, which stretches out over two LPs.
New & Notable: The second album by Helen, a scrappy guitar trio from the Pacific Northwest led by Liz Harris.
New & Notable: An extraordinary record from the harmonium-led, spiritually-inspired project of Paris Rebel Richens.
New & Notable: The Nashville indie rock band blend fuzzed-out guitars and soaring melodies with emotionally direct songwriting on their debut LP.
Album of the Day: Various Artists, "Antiyano Progresivo: Musical Experiments from the Former Dutch Caribbean, 1968-1986." A new comp from Soundway unearths the Caribbean's psychedelic underground.
Ten years of making room for music that doesn’t fit anywhere else. Dublin’s wherethetimegoes has become a home for adventurous DIY sounds, turning the city’s frustrations and contradictions into something beautiful.
Underground Medicine digs into the demos, unreleased albums, and local legends preserved in punk archives across the U.S. From Mid-Atlantic hardcore to Montana post-punk, these scenes have plenty left to tell.
New & Notable: A stunning box set from jazz icon Dave Holland arrives as the perfect summary of his career-in-progress.
New & Notable: Minimalist pop from ddwy, where electronic arrangements burble above throbbing rhythms.
