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.
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 »
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 »
A suitably overdriven and over-everything example of the dance genre know… more »
Trans Am are a rare post-rock band with a cheeky side. Their tight, shift… more »
Has there ever been a band weirder — album for album, song for song… more »
Throwing a wildcard where most dance-minded rock bands revert to familiar… more »
Name-checked by countless musicians wise to the avant-garde (and demonize… more »
A strange band whose music defies description while inspiring a store of … more »
Normal and innocuous until you really stop to listen, church bells ring i… more »
For a brief while, some people believed this debut from Chorus of Tribes … more »
One of the most bizarre musical movements ever to happen anywhere, "screw… more »
A forgotten luminary who had been all but lost to history, Arthur Russell… more »
After following the most studious tenets of post-rock on TNT, Tortoise cr… 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 »
