Northern Spy

Necks: Bleed [CD]

Lucas Gary: Cinefantastique [CD]

In October 2020, Brooklyn, NY based singer-songwriter Allegra Krieger drove across the country to record her new album with Luke Temple. Set to release on March 4 with Northern Spy, Precious Thing captures fleeting moments in a world that has become sick from itself. From sharing a gaze with a man as the clock strikes 12 on New Year's on a Coney Island-bound train, to taking a loved one off of life support, to processing the religious trauma of wine, Krieger weaves together a portrait of a woman trying to find meaning. Accompanied by guitars, bowed strings, and piano, this is an album about looking, and Krieger fills up each lonely space she enters with her gaze. Krieger asks you to look, to really, really look, so that you can remember something, however small it is, when it's all gone.

Miller Jenks: Spirit Signal [CD]

Counting Sunsets is a quietly expansive continuation of SUSS's slow-motion Americana, tracing new lines through the terrain they've been mapping across their run of albums for Northern Spy. As with earlier releases, the band leans into wide-open desert horizons, kosmische drift, and noir-ish pedal-steel laments, but this time an end-of-day stillness permeates. Counting Sunsets feels episodic and reflective: a sequence of small, neon-glowing moments that pass like light changing at dusk. Each piece arrives with the calm assurance of a band attuned to negative space, tone, decay, atmosphere, and melody. A quiet preoccupation with memory and the slow erosion of time. Light fades and the air carries sound.

Suss: Ghost Box (Expanded) [CD]

38 suggestiva och spännade minuter under ledning av den egypiske hyllade gitarristen. Tillsammans med en 12 musiker stark ensemble tar han akustiska gitarr oss med på en resa i landet av ECM, Jose Gonzalez och öknarna hemmavid. Växer!