Album Reviews

The placement of the different instruments in the listener's ears creates a sense of surrounding space; the bleed of one tone's decay into the attack of the next seems to smooth over the passage of time.

Here are 21 of popular music’s most spectacular gargantuan anthologies, each featuring 10 or more discs.

In this music Liang raises the process of creation to such an esoteric level that the substance thins out almost to the vanishing point.

Reviewed: "Unwanted," the latest from outlaw country singer Dale Watson, and "Wake," a new CD from the multitalented Dirk Powell.

If you've never heard of Dan Penn, one reason is probably that you’re not the sort of person who reads songwriting credits.

It's as if the violin can't stop swatting at mosquitos while the cello sings a sad, halting, unmoored kind of song.

A new two-CD set called "American Dream" takes us back to Mellencamp's Johnny Cougar days, when the singer was a household name mainly just in his own household.

Evocative electroacoustic music from composer-percussionist José Martínez engages with the composer's Latin heritage, and with the absurd, while pushing creative boundaries.

'The “Chirping” Crickets' isn’t just any album. It has influenced countless musicians over the decades, and its songs have been savored by millions of fans. If you’re one of them, you’re bound to love the way those tunes have been enhanced for this release.

Percussion music can sound dry and detached. Most of the music on Portland Percussion Group's new album is anything but.