“… between the external and the internal, electronic and instrumental, the technological world against the natural world…”

Max Richter returns with his ninth studio album on Decca employing his minimalist approach to themes of the big questions of life and the quiet pleasures of living.

“… eleven tracks of pure and lighthearted bliss, ideal to lift your spirits and quench the thirsty mind…”

The duo of Ólafur Arnalds and Janus Rasmussen are back with their follow-up on Erased Tapes triumphantly bridging cinematic and modern classical sound with micro-sculpted tech-house beats.

“… an even keel of a floating buoy in the stormy weather of my mind…”

Listening to Illuvia is like waking up in a tent still covered with frosty dew to the sounds of the rave ongoing through the night. It’s a nostalgic feeling of my youth, and perhaps that’s just one of the reasons why I keep returning to this album.

“… an aggressive inversion of euphoric sound […] fractured and beaten into submission…”

Dennis Huddleston smacks us in the face with his rawest emotion to date.

“… an auditory exploration into the crossroads of artificial intelligence and our comprehension of existence…”

Beginning its life as a collaborative dance piece with choreographer Fukiko Takase, the new solo album on Deutsche Grammophon probes the deep questions surrounding nature, consciousness, technology, and the profound implications of AI.

“… frosty fragile fretful armadillo crawling on your naked back…”

The familiar aural chemistry of metal is immediately untethered, isolated in the vacuum, stripped of its cultural trappings and heavy armory, and loaded into a particle accelerator.