Earthen Sea - Grass And TreesJacob Long's reductionist rhythmic ambient vessel, Earthen Sea, ebbs towards a more purely elemental state on his second excursion for Kranky, Grass And Trees. He describes the creative process as one of "simplifying things as much as possible," designing uncluttered spaces traced in nothing but breath, field recordings, and "sounds that could be played by hand but weren't." The results feel decentralized but dynamic, low lit evocations of ambiguous

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they will find music of elegant gestures and appealing gentility

Animal Collective's Noah Lennox balances blossoming melodic pop with wildly experimental sound techniques

Murphy was a bit of an outsider to the SoundCloud rap worldhe'd begun to orbit

Artist Matteo Venturini organ

Servais/ Yang/ Mro/ Mikkelsen - Souvenir de Spa: Works for Cello & Orchestra

Christ the Glorified

Laurin opts for a justifiablyItalianate slant - providing great varietyin realizations characterized by bold andstriking harmonization

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His last-ever video recording is included

It's hilarious

bittersweet balladry spun in defense against evils familiar and unknown