The Sunday supplement: #91
New music for different tastes, the Kindle replacement I didn't see coming, a new movie I liked on Netflix, and more
One. First, some new music I liked recently, broken apart for different tastes—classical, indie rock, techno, and so on.
For the Radiohead fan
The new Smile record dropped this week. Several tracks have In Rainbows vibes, which are pretty great vibes.
For the ambient fan
Discovered via Andrew Womack’s new music newsletter, I loved “Eliminar Lo Innecesario” by Fer Franco.
On a similar note, from Alex Ross’s recent piece about Ukrainian composers, I liked the piece by Adrian Mocanu. Alex describes it as such:
On the morning of February 24, 2022, air-raid sirens wailed in the streets of Kyiv, heralding a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. When the composer Adrian Mocanu heard the noise, he had a curious reaction. “I thought the sirens sounded like giant wolves howling,” he told me, in an e-mail. The aural illusion haunted him, and last year he created a piece called “Time of the Wolves,” which blends recordings of sirens and of wolves into a smoldering, eerily expectant electronic soundscape. The title alludes to Michael Haneke’s film “Le Temps du Loup,” in which a family wanders a contaminated landscape, and also to the Old Norse epic “Völuspá,” which contains the line “Wind-time, wolf-time, ere the world falls.”
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