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Decade :: Sufjan Stevens, Illinoise (2005)
What is it that makes us want to deconstruct art by units of time? Lists. We love making them. We love arguing over them. And here, on the verge of […]
Sufjan Stevens :: Songs For Christmas
Oh yes, December is here and it is that time of year again. While Sufjan Stevens has been pretty quiet of late, it would not surprise me if he decided to come […]
Sufjan Stevens :: Tracks
This demo of “Casimir Pulaski” (the original found on 2005’s Illinoise’s ) hit the Internets a little over a month ago, but it wasn’t until last week that I finally […]
Season’s Greetings :: From Sufjan Stevens
Prophesies of a World to Come :: On Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill
The singular and enigmatic singer-songwriter Judee Sill has been gone nearly 45 years, yet her work is in a renaissance. Over the past twenty years, there has been a growing fascination in both Sill’s music and story, with a series of reissues, posthumous releases, and retrospectives opening her work to a contemporary audience. Now a new documentary on her life and career, Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill.
Aquarium Drunkard :: 2023 Year in Review
Looking back to look ahead. It’s our Year In Review 2023. As always, our list is unranked and unruly. Let it blurb.
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Hand Habits :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Meg Duffy talks about their process, the liberating effect of working with an out queer artist like Perfume Genius and the way that the meanings of songs shift over time. “One of my favorite things about making records is that I learn about what the meaning is, later, after it’s out,” they confide.
Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard September 2020 Broadcast
The third episode of Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard, our monthly four-hour broadcast every third Sunday of the month, is now archived for on-demand listening at Dublab. Originally aired September 20th, this edition features a special presentation of Aquarium Drunkard’s Lagniappe Sessions in the first hour, followed by Range and Basin, Doom and Gloom From the Tomb, and Personal Sky. Individual shows are archived for our Patreon supporters.
Symphony of Souls :: On the Hippie Christian Folk of The Trees Community
This is the story of the Trees Community, a small band of NYC outsiders who lived as a traveling monastic order in the 1970s playing devotional folk music that connected the avant-garde to the sacred.
Aquarium Drunkard :: Decade / 2010-19
Well, that was fast. Decade is just about over, and as it draws to a close, its highs look awfully high in the rearview. Presented here, an unranked sprawl of 100 records that stuck with us, managing to break through the noise of an increasingly distracting age, and stick around in our heads.
Dana Falconberry :: From The Forest Came The Fire
“What good that mounting sky for the grounded such as I?” Texas-based singer/songwriter Dana Falconberry sings on “Dolomite,” from From the Forest Came the Fire, her new LP with her band, Medicine […]
Aquarium Drunkard :: 2015 Year In Review
Here it is. Our obligatory year-end review. The following is an unranked list of albums that caught, and kept, our attention in 2015.
The Everly Brothers :: Roots
The Everly Brothers released Roots in 1968, a pioneering country-rock album that found them covering material from their influences both past and present — including the likes of Merle Haggard, George […]
Phosphorescent :: You Can Make Me Feel Bad (Arthur Russell)
The latest release from the Red Hot Organization is a tribute compilation to the late cellist and experimental composer Arthur Russell, whose work spanned the verse of classical music, disco, country, […]