Broadcasting from inside her own head, Eiko Ishibashi’s songs offer a chilling observation of a drastically-altering reality. On March 28, the accomplished keyboardist/multi-instrumental composer will release her sweeping new production, Antigone — her eagerly-awaited 4th album of traditional songcraft on Drag City, not counting last year’s award-winning Evil Does Not Exist soundtrack. Today, Eiko releases Antigone’s all-consuming opening track: “October”.

Antigone’s soaring opener launches with an orchestral-cum-concrète buildup that jumps abruptly into Eiko and band in full flight, guitars and keys burbling... (read more)

For over 25 years, Ben Chasny’s blend of folk, rock, and pop-baring teeth have stained, blackened, and transcended with otherworldly spirit. True to Six Organs' shifting sonic impermanence honed by decades of movement through touring, their latest stand-alone LP, Time Is Glass, captures Chasny once again in the intricate tangle of the fretboards, threading backward through time to form an intimate, acoustic, cosmic expression.

Live, this tour begins with Six Organs playing the length of Portugal in duet with Norberto Lobo... (read more)

For Translucence, out March 28th, is the debut album from Whitney Johnson & Lia Kohl. Their dialogue, found initially in free improvisation on viola and cello, has evolved over time into a neophonic orchestral expression: a living, breathing meditation in which layers of acoustic strings, synthesisers, field recordings, radio and sine waves illuminate and change each other as they twine and grow. Their first single, an excerpt of “73|74”, is out today.

This edit of “73|74” is a heady moment in the... (read more)

Hear that sound? It's a Whistle from Above, David Grubbs' new album coming out on Drag City next month! Yes! After sharing the lead single/video for “The Snake on Its Tail” this past December, Grubbs has a new song for us today: “Queen’s Side Eye”.

Opening with warm, folky arpeggiation, David swiftly introduces edits and variations into “Queen’s Side Eye” — he’s hardly done pursuing them down each path before turning and chasing after another set. It’s a taut, intensively scaled... (read more)