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Visible Cloaks have announced Paradessence, their third album, and shared lead single Disque featuring Motion Graphics. The Portland duo’s follow-up to the acclaimed Reassemblage draws its title from Alex Shakar’s concept of paradoxical essence — the schismatic core that makes something desirable through contradiction. The accompanying video, directed by Grade Eterna and Spencer Doran, transforms a London greenhouse into an uncanny 3D point cloud.

Emily A. Sprague’s “Cloud Time” is one of the most stunning ambient records in recent memory. Recorded live in Japan, it draws from the “naturalist” school of modular synthesis, engaging with the Japanese tradition of environmental music. Sprague whittled hours of recordings into a suite that is both deeply contemplative and refreshingly human, a “sonic wonderment” of texture and off-the-cuff creativity.

M. Sage’s Tender / Wading is a quietly sublime album. It achieves all of the goals of ambient music without being hamstrung by any of its genre tropes. Unafraid to reach into the past, and unafraid of its own big heart, it is textural, varied, consistently interesting and frequently moving.  

The key ingredient of “A Danger to Ourselves” is depth. It is an album of unfathomable musical depths, but perhaps more importantly, it is an album about depth of feeling, the abyss from which desire springs like a liquid flame. Lucrecia Dalt gives herself over completely to exploring this depth, and the singular work of art that emerges is as detailed and as unexpected as any treasure.

Emily A. Sprague has announced her new album, Cloud Time, arriving October 10th. The record chronicles her debut tour of Japan through a series of environmental improvisations guided by the energy of each moment. The lead single, “Tokyo 1,” is a spacious and welcoming track capturing the emotional arc of a night Sprague calls “profoundly healing.” Listen now and view the visual by V Haddad.

Japanese musician and songwriter Satomimagae shares her latest single, ‘Omajinai,’ which considers the vague mystery and infinite poetry in even the most transient moments. Watch the accompanying video by Norio, which brings the simple yet lucid story to life.

Japanese musician, songwriter and inner / outer world traveller Satomimagae announces their new album, Taba, and shares the video from the ON-EI [音映] creative collective for their lead single ‘Many’.

‘Moon in Gemini’ is one of those albums that wears its apparent simplicity as a cloak, disguising a host of concepts, implications, and influences. Isik Kural has quietly, and with a distinct emphasis on care, made one of the year’s most varied and rewarding albums.

Liverpudlian producer Andrew PM Hunt (Dialect) announces new album, Atlas of Green. Watch Sara Ludy’s video for the lead single, ‘Late Fragment’; the song encompasses the melancholic core of the album, a patchwork of memory and mistranslation.

With What Is Not Strange? Tashi Wada has announced himself as a truly distinctive voice, capable of creating experimental music on the most human level.

Theoretical in its conception and yet broadly humanist in its appeal, Black Decelerant’s Reflections Vol. 2 serves as a timely reminder that music of resistance doesn’t have to be overly simple or one-dimensional. This is art as nuanced argument, challenging and often beautiful.

Los Angeles-based composer Tashi Wada has announced his first full-length solo album ‘What Is Not Strange?’ and shares impressionistic video by Dicky Bahto for ‘Grand Trine’. The album explores the themes of being alive, mortality, and finding one’s place in the world.