Andy Battaglia writes about music and culture of various other kinds from a home base in New York. His work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Wire, the National, SPIN, Artforum, New York, Pitchfork, and the Onion A.V. Club, among other publications. He’s also one of the organizers of Unsound Festival New York, a festival for experimental, electronic, and progressive music from around the world.
It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-… more »
HTRK’s Work (work, work) is a curious mix of dark and light. The ov… more »
Like many other young musicians who work with old synthesizers (see also:… more »
From the beginning, when he started lacing the spectacle of rock with ide… more »
Sizzling inside the cold hearts of machines, the acid house heard on Mad … more »
Water Curses is comprised of four songs that were recorded during the ses… more »
Strawberry Jam assumes its place in a paradoxical trajectory that has fou… more »
Flying Saucer Attack spread the rush and rustle of rock thin and wide on … more »
Ever wondered what Sufjan Stevens would sound like over a chamber-music b… more »
We all know about the "Difficult Second Album" — the oft-rushed rec… more »
More than just an album on which Thom Yorke appears (though the presence … more »
Greeted as a genius when he started tooling with the more "musical" aspec… more »
The work of Raymond Scott lends invaluable context to an electronic-music… more »
It always helps to start at the beginning, and it would be hard to go bac… more »
There are songwriters and then there are songmakers — artists whose… more »
Ever since they sashayed out of the Chicago post-rock scene in the mid … more »
The members of Elk City have toiled somewhere in a nowhere-zone of indie-… more »
Mesmerizing like an ambient electronic album but rigorous and tender in a… more »
Among the most bumptious and thwacking of the many Arthur Russell gems ex… more »
The only instrument more inherently mesmerizing than a music box is the g… more »
Recorded at live shows before it was clear whether Animal Collective play… more »
Swan Lake is a conglomeration of three Canadian songwriters with similarl… more »
After long lurking in the shadow of more momentous Elephant 6 collective … more »
A suitably overdriven and over-everything example of the dance genre know… more »
As they age, extreme metal merchants often inject various non-metallic styles into their songs in order to hasten their musical growth. Sometimes, as with Alcest and Jesu, they develop to the point where their original… more »
