Raffaello Russo

Former Contributor

raffaello.russo@ondarock.it

Born in Rome in 1976, a compulsive listener, there's nothing he can't do with music as a soundtrack - music for which he showed an unhealthy love from an early age, to the point of repeatedly claiming he was "raised on bread and Sonic Youth". He has since progressively and endlessly broadened his musical scope, which now ranges indiscriminately from singer-songwriters to post-rock to minimal electronics; but regardless of genre labels, he has always favoured an instinctive approach to music, letting himself be guided by the emotions it conveys rather than by purely technical considerations. He actively collaborated with OndaRock from 2004 to 2011, writing numerous artist profiles and interviews, penning several hundred reviews, and helping launch OndaDrops, the series of free-download compilations of exclusive tracks. From 2007 to 2011 he served as sole editorial coordinator. Since March 2012, all his music writing has been collected at musicwontsaveyou.com.

Monographs and interviews

At Swim Two Birds	Mono Monograph	Int Interview
Attilio Novellino		Int Interview
Balmorhea	Mono Monograph	Int Interview
Barzin	Mono Monograph	Int Interview
Birds Of Passage		Int Interview
Boduf Songs	Mono Monograph	Int Interview
Clientele	Mono Monograph
Decemberists	Mono Monograph
Early Day Miners	Mono Monograph
Efterklang		Int Interview
Eluvium	Mono Monograph
Espers – Greg Weeks	Mono Monograph	Int Interview
Francis M. Gri – Apart – Revglow		Int Interview
Halifax Pier	Mono Monograph
Hood	Mono Monograph
James Leyland Kirby		Int Interview
Jason Molina	Mono Monograph
Library Tapes	Mono Monograph	Int Interview
Matt Elliott	Mono Monograph	Int Interview
Nancy Elizabeth		Int Interview
Netherworld		Int Interview
Pains Of Being Pure At Heart	Mono Monograph	Int Interview
Pale Saints	Mono Monograph
Pan American	Mono Monograph
Piano Magic	Mono Monograph	Int Interview
Port-Royal	Mono Monograph	Int Interview
Sigur Ròs	Mono Monograph	Int Interview
Sonic Youth	Mono Monograph
Spokane	Mono Monograph
Sufjan Stevens	Mono Monograph
The Album Leaf	Mono Monograph	Int Interview
Tindersticks	Mono Monograph	Int Interview
Tunng	Mono Monograph	Int Interview
Valgeir Sigurdsson	Mono Monograph	Int Interview
Yann Tiersen	Mono Monograph	Int Interview

Miscellaneous

In-Depth

Second Language: the label of new recording languages

A year on from its first release, we take stock of the experience of the subscription label Second Language, also through the words of its founders Glen Johnson and David Sheppard

In-Depth

Second Language: a different music label

In the mp3 era, there's still somebody who cares about the records as objects. Three passionate people (Piano Magic's Glen Johnson, David Sheppard and Martin Holm) started the adventurous Second Language, a distinctive subscription-label meant to make great music but also unique things, in the form of boxes, magazines, books, etc. After the first year […]

In-Depth

Second Language: a different music label

In-Depth

Take the sounds, turn them into words

OndaRock's second free-download compilation offers a glimpse into electronic, ambient and electroacoustic music, across twenty-five exclusive tracks

Reviews on OndaRock

*AR Wolf Notes drone-folk, ethereal	7
36 Hollow ambient	7
36 Hypersona ambient	7.5
A DANCING BEGGAR What We Left Behind ambient-acoustic, dream post-rock	7
A HAWK AND A HACKSAW Cervantine ethno-folk	6
A HAWK AND A HACKSAW Délivrance ethno-folk	6
A WINGED VICTORY FOR THE SULLEN A Winged Victory For The Sullen ambient, modern classical	6.5
AA.VV. Dark Was The Night alt-pop-rock	6.5
AA.VV. Leaves Of Life alt-folk	6.5
AA.VV. Minute Papillon alt-folk, drone, electro-acoustic, modern classical	7
AA.VV. Music And Migration alt-folk, drone, electro-acoustic, modern classical	7.5
AA.VV. Vertical Integration alt-folk, dream-pop, electro-acoustic	7.5
AARKTICA In Sea ambient-shoegaze, drone	7
ABSENT WITHOUT LEAVE Faded Photographs dream post-rock	6.5
ABSENT WITHOUT LEAVE Postcards From Nowhere ambient, dream post-rock	7
ADRIAN CROWLEY Long Distance Swimmer songwriter	7.5
ADRIAN CROWLEY Season Of The Sparks songwriter	6.5
AGNES OBEL Philharmonics songwriter	7.5
AIDAN MOFFAT & THE BEST-OFS How To Get To Heaven From Scotland alt-folk, alt-rock	6
ALASKA IN WINTER Dance Party In The Balkans ethno-folk, synth-pop	6.5
ALELA DIANE Alela Diane & Wild Divine alt-folk, singer-songwriter	6.5
ALELA DIANE To Be Still alt-folk, singer-songwriter	7.5
ALEXI MURDOCH Time Without Consequence songwriter	7
ALLYSEN CALLERY Hobgoblin’s Hat alt-folk, singer-songwriter	7
ALLYSEN CALLERY Winter Island alt-folk, singer-songwriter	6.5
ALONDRA BENTLEY Ashfield Avenue folk-pop, songwriter	7.5
ALTAR EAGLE Mechanical Gardens synth-gaze	7
AMANDINE Solace In Sore Hands folk-pop	6.5
AMERICAN DOLLAR Atlas electronica, post-rock	6.5
AMIINA Kurr dream-folk	6
AMIINA Puzzle chamber folk	6.5
ANNA ROSE CARTER & PLEQ My Piano Is Broken modern classical	7
ANNELIES MONSERE' Marit lo-fi drone-folk, singer-songwriter	7
ANOICE Out Of Season modern classical, post-rock	7
ANOICE Ruined-Hotel Sessions post-rock	5.5
ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS Swanlights songwriter	6.5
ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS Thank You For Your Love songwriter	6.5
ANTONYMES The License To Interpret Dreams ambient	7.5
ANTONYMES MEETS SLOW DANCING SOCIETY We Don’t Look Back For Very Long ambient	6.5
APART Digital Frame ambient, electro-acoustic, ethereal	7
APART Winter Fragments ambient, electro-acoustic, ethereal	7
AQUADORSA Cloudlands ambient drone, electro-acoustic	6.5
ARBOREA Red Planet alt-folk, psych-folk	7
ARCA [FRA] On Ne Distinguait Plus Les Têtes electro-acoustic, post-rock, songwriter	7
ARCO Yield sadcore-pop	7
ART OF FIGHTING Runaways alt-rock, pop-rock	6.5
ART OF FIGHTING Second Storey pop-rock	7
ATTILIO NOVELLINO Through Glass ambient drone	7.5
AU REVOIR BOREALIS Dark Enough For Stars ambient-acoustic, dream-pop	7
AUBURN LULL Begin Civil Twilight ambient-shoegaze	7
AUDIE DARLING Full Of Ghosts songwriter	7
AUTUMN SHADE Ezra Moon alt-folk	7
AUTUMN'S GREY SOLACE Eifelian dark-wave, dream-pop	6
BALMORHEA All Is Wild, All Is Silent chamber post-rock	7.5
BALMORHEA All Is Wild, All Is Silent Remixes ambient, electro-acoustic	7
BALMORHEA Constellations post-classical	8
BALMORHEA Rivers Arms chamber post-rock, modern classical	8
BALMORHEA Stranger chamber post-rock	6
BARZIN My Life In Rooms songwriter	8
BARZIN Notes To An Absent Lover songwriter	8
BE FOREST Cold. dark-wave, shoegaze	7
BEACH HOUSE Teen Dream dream-pop	8
BEIRUT Gulag Orkestar ethno-folk-pop	6
BEIRUT March Of The Zapotec / Realpeople: Holland ethno-synth-folk	5
BEIRUT The Flying Club Cup ethno-folk-pop	6.5
BEIRUT The Rip Tide alt-folk-pop	5.5
BENOIT PIOULARD Lasted folk-tronica	6.5
BENOIT PIOULARD Temper pop-folk-tronica	7.5
BERSARIN QUARTETT Bersarin Quartett ambient, electronic	7
BESNARD LAKES The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse alt-rock, psych-pop	6
BIG EYES FAMILY PLAYERS Donkeysongs avant-folk, psych-folk	6.5
BIRDS OF PASSAGE Winter Lady drone-writer	7.5
BIRDS OF PASSAGE Without The World drone-writer	8.5
BIRDS OF PASSAGE Without The World (english version) drone-writer	8.5
BIRDS OF PASSAGE AND LEONARDO ROSADO Dear And Unfamiliar electro-acoustic ambient-pop	7
BJ NILSEN The Invisible City dark-ambient, drone, electro-acoustic	7
BLACK HEART PROCESSION Six alt-rock	6.5
BLAUDZUN Seadrift Soundmachine folk-pop, songwriter	7
BLONDE REDHEAD Penny Sparkle dream-pop, electro-pop	6.5
BOBBY & BLUMM A Little Big bedroom-pop, electro-acoustic	6.5
BOBBY & BLUMM Everybody Loves bedroom-pop, electro-acoustic	6.5
BODUF SONGS This Alone Above All Else In Spite Of Everything lo-fi goth-folk, singer-songwriter	7
BOOKS The Way Out avant-pop, folktronica	5
BOY & THE ECHO CHOIR And Night Arrives In One Gigantic Step alt-folk, folktronica, singer-songwriter	7
BRACKEN We Know About The Need alt-rock, post-folk	7
BRAVE TIMBERS For Every Day You Lost chamber folk, impro, modern classical	7
BRIAN MCBRIDE The Effective Disconnect ambient, modern classical	6.5
BROADCAST 2000 Broadcast 2000 chamber folk-pop	6.5
BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE Forgiveness Rock Record alt-pop-rock	5.5
BUBBLEGUM LEMONADE Doubleplusgood indie-pop	7.5
BUBBLEGUM LEMONADE Sophomore Release alt-pop	7
BVDUB I Remember (Translations Of Mørketid) ambient dub	7
BVDUB The Art Of Dying Alone ambient, drone, electro-acoustic	7.5
CAROL ANNE MCGOWAN Songs From The Cellar lo-fi folk, singer-songwriter	7.5
CASEWORKER Letters From The Coast alt-pop, garage-pop	6.5
CAT POWER Dark End Of The Street songwriter	6
CAT POWER Jukebox songwriter	6.5
CAT POWER Sun songwriter	5
CATS ON FIRE Dealing In Antiques alt-pop	7
CATS ON FIRE Our Temperance Movement alt-pop	8
CAUGHT IN THE WAKE FOREVER All The Hurt That Hinders Home ambient, electro-acoustic, lo-fi	7
CHAPELIER FOU 613 avant-garde, folktronica	6
CHEJU Waiting For Tomorrow electro-acoustic, idm	6.5
CHEVAL SOMBRE Cheval Sombre alt-folk, psychedelia	7
CHIHEI HATAKEYAMA Ghostly Garden ambient drone, electro-acoustic	6.5
CINEMATIC ORCHESTRA Ma Fleur chamber-jazz, soft-rock	6
CLEM LEEK Holly Lane ambient, drone	7
CLIENTELE Bonfires On The Heath alt-rock, pop	7.5
CLIENTELE Minotaur alt-pop	7
CLIENTELE Strange Geometry pop-wave	7
CLOUDS IN A POCKET Ten Blown Feathers dream-folk-pop, slowcore, songwriter	7
CLUB 8 The People’s Record alt-pop	7.5
COLORBLIND Under A Paper Moon alt-rock, folk-pop	6.5
COMANECI You A Lie chamber-folk-rock	6
CON_CETTA Micro electro-acoustic	7
CRAFT SPELLS Idle Labor dark-wave, dream-synth-pop	6
CRYPTACIZE Mythomania avant-pop	5.5
CUBS The Whispering Woods avant-folk, impro	6
CURRENT 93 Baalstorm, Sing Omega apocalyptic folk	6.5
CURRENT 93 Honeysuckle Æons apocalyptic folk	5.5
DAKOTA SUITE The End Of Trying modern classical, sadcore	7
DAKOTA SUITE The Hearts Of Empty avant-garde, chamber-jazz	6.5
DAKOTA SUITE The Night Just Keeps Coming In ambient, modern classical	7
DAKOTA SUITE Waiting For The Dawn To Crawl Through And Take Away Your Life sad-core, songwriter	8
DAKOTA SUITE & EMANUELE ERRANTE The North Green Down modern classical, sadcore
DAMIEN JURADO And Now That I’m In Your Shadow songwriter	7
DAMIEN JURADO Caught In The Trees songwriter	7
DAMIEN JURADO On My Way To Absence songwriter	6.5
DAMIEN JURADO Saint Bartlett songwriter	6.5
DAMON & NAOMI False Beats And True Hearts dream-pop, psych-pop-rock	7
DAMON & NAOMI Within These Walls dream-pop, slow-core	7
DANIELE MAGGIOLI Karaoke Blues singer-songwriter	6.5
DANNY NORBURY Light In August ambient, modern classical	6.5
DANNY PAUL GRODY Fountain ambient-folk, fingerpicking	7
DAVID BYRNE & BRIAN ENO Everything That Happens Will Happen Today avant-pop, electro-gospel	4
DAVID HURN Black Flowers ambient lo-fi	6.5
DAVID HURN The Beautiful Trustful Future chamber pop, songwriter	7
DAVID WENNGREN Sleepless Nights dark ambient, modern classical	6.5
DAWN CHORUS IGNITES Glimmer ambient-shoegaze	6.5
DEAD CAN DANCE Ark electro dark-wave, songwriter	6
DEAD MAN WATCHING Dead Man Is Coming To Town alt-rock	6.5
DEAD MAN WATCHING Dead Man Watching alt-rock, slow-core	6.5
DEAF CENTER Owl Splinters dark ambient, modern classical	7
DEAF CENTER Pale Ravine dark ambient, modern classical	8
DEAR READER Replace Why With Funny alt-folk-pop	6.5
DECEMBERISTS Picaresque folk-rock	6.5
DECEMBERISTS The Crane Wife folk-rock	6
DECEMBERISTS The Hazards Of Love alt-rock, rock opera	5.5
DECEMBERISTS The King Is Dead folk-rock	7
DEDO Flow electro-gaze	7
DEDO Solar Day electro-gaze, idm	6.5
DENTE Io tra di noi singer-songwriter, pop	6.5
DENTE L’amore non è bello pop, songwriter	7
DESTROYALLDREAMERS Wish I Was All Flames post-rock, shoegaze	6.5
DESTROYER Kaputt songwriter, synth-lounge	5
DETEKTIVBYRAN Wermland ethno-folk-pop	6.5
DIRGE Rebecca alt-rock, post-rock	6.5
DISINTERESTED Behind Us dream-ambient	6.5
DOLLBOY A Beard Of Bees folktronica	6.5
DOLLBOY Ghost Stations ambient-acoustic, avantgarde	7
DOVETAIL CONSORT East & West Ep avant-folk, fingerpicking	6.5
DRIFTWOOD MANOR Holy Ghost alt-folk, avant-folk	7
DRIFTWOOD MANOR The Same Figure (Leaving) alt-folk, avant-folk	7.5
DUSTIN O'HALLORAN Lumiere modern classical	7.5
EARLY DAY MINERS All Harm Ends Here alt-rock	7
EARLY DAY MINERS Offshore alt-rock	6
EARLY DAY MINERS The Treatment alt-pop-rock	6
EDM Night People alt-rock	6.5
EF I Am Responsible post-rock	7
EF Mourning Golden Morning post-rock	6.5
EFTERKLANG Magic Chairs orchestrated experimental pop	6
EFTERKLANG Parades orchestral folk, post-rock	7
EFTERKLANG Performing Parades chamber folk-pop	7
EIMOG Scenario post-rock	6.5
ELEGI Varde dark-ambient, electro-acoustic	6.5
ELISA LUU Chromatic Sigh ambient, electro-acoustic	7
ELISA LUU The Time Of Waiting ambient, electro-acoustic	6.5
ELISA LUU Un giorno sospeso ambient, electro-acoustic	7
ELUVIUM Copia ambient	8
ELUVIUM Similes ambient	7
ELUVIUM Static Nocturne ambient, drone	6
EMANUELE ERRANTE Time Elapsing Handheld ambient, electro-acoustic	7
EMILY JANE WHITE Dark Undercoat songwriter	7.5
EMILY JANE WHITE Ode To Sentience alt-folk, singer-songwriter	7
EMILY JANE WHITE Victorian America songwriter	7
EMMY THE GREAT First Love songwriter	6.5
ENRICO CONIGLIO dyanMU ambient, modern classical	6.5
ENRICO CONIGLIO Salicornie: Topofonie Vol. 2 ambient, electro-acoustic, soundscaping	7
ENRICO CONIGLIO Songs From Ruined Days ambient drone, avant-garde	7
EPIC45 In All The Empty Houses ambient-acoustic, electro-pop	6.5
EPIC45 May Your Heart Be The Map ambient, dream post-rock	7.5
EPIC45 Weathering ambient-acoustic, rural dream-folk	8
ERIC CHENAUX Warm Weather With Ryan Driver songwriter	6
ERIK K SKODVIN Flare dark ambient, modern classical	7
ESMERINE La Lechuza chamber post-rock	7
ESPERS Espers I I Psych-folk	6.5
ESPERS I I I alt-folk, psych-folk	7
ESPERS The Weed Tree alt-folk	7.5
EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone post-rock	6.5
EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY Take Care, Take Care, Take Care post-rock	6
FELICIA ATKINSON La La La impro, lo-fi bedroom-folk	6
FELICIA ATKINSON & SYLVAIN CHAUVEAU Roman Anglais ambient, spoken word	6.5
FELIX You Are The One I Pick chamber pop	7
FENNESZ Black Sea ambient, electro-acoustic	7
FEU THERESE Feu Therese avant-rock	6
FIRST AID KIT The Big Black And The Blue alt-folk-pop	6.5
FLEET FOXES Helplessness Blues alt-pop-folk	6.5
FLOWERS FROM THE MAN WHO SHOT YOUR COUSIN Hapless songwriter	7.5
FOR CARNATION For Carnation post-rock, slow-core
FORESTFLIES Structure/ Chaos ambient, modern classical	6.5
FRANCIS M. GRI - APART - REVGLOW Home ambient-acoustic	7
FRANKIE SPARO Welcome Crummy Mystics post-rock, songwriter	8
FRIDGE The Sun avant-rock, post-rock	6
FUGUES Fugues – Unreleased Tracks 2009 ambient, dream post-rock, electronica	7.5
GABRIEL STERNBERG Phantomschmerz dream-pop, songwriter	7
GEM CLUB Breakers soft-chamber-pop	7.5
GEOFF FARINA - KARATE - GLORYTELLERS Atone alt-rock, songwriter	6.5
GEOFF FARINA - KARATE - GLORYTELLERS Glorytellers alt-rock, songwriter	7
GHOSTWRITER The Continuing Adventures Of The Strange Sound Association library music	6
GIRLS NAMES Dead To Me alt-pop, noise-pop	7
GLEN HANSARD Strict Joy alt-rock, songwriter	6
GLEN HANSARD The Swell Season songwriter	7.5
GLEN JOHNSON Details Not Recorded electro-pop-wave	7
GLEN JOHNSON Institutionalized Ep alt-rock	6.5
GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend! chamber prog-rock	6
GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven chamber prog-rock
GOLD-BEARS Are You Falling In Love? alt-pop-rock, noise-pop	6
GOLDMUND Famous Places modern classical	6.5
GOLDMUND The Malady Of Elegance modern classical	6
GOOD NIGHT & GOOD MORNING Good Night & Good Morning slow-core	6.5
GRACE CATHEDRAL PARK In The Evenings Of Regret post-rock	8.5
GRAVENHURST The Western Lands electric folk, post-shoegaze	7
GREGOR SAMSA 55:12 post-rock, slowcore	7.5
GREGOR SAMSA Rest slowcore	7.5
GREGORY & THE HAWK Moenie And Kitchi folk-pop, songwriter	7
GRIZZLY BEAR Veckatimest alt-folk, alt-pop	7.5
GROUPER Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill lo-fi ambient-folk	6.5
GURUN GURUN Gurun Gurun electro-acoustic, glitch-pop, impro	6.5
HAMMOCK Chasing After Shadows… Living With The Ghosts dream-ambient, stargaze	7
HAMMOCK Departure Songs ambient, dream-pop, star-gaze	7
HAMMOCK Longest Year Ep ambient	6.5
HAMMOCK/ STEVE KILBEY/ TIMEBANDIT POWLES Asleep In The Downlights dream-ambient, stargaze	7.5
HARUKO Wild Geese alt-folk, singer-songwriter	7.5
HEATHER WOODS BRODERICK From The Ground ambient, modern classical, songwriter	7.5
HEIDI ELVA Lo-Fi Musings ambient-folk, avantgarde, field recordings	7
HEIDI ELVA Ships And Trees ambient-folk, singer-songwriter	7.5
HEIDI SPENCER AND THE RARE BIRDS Under Streetlight Glow country-folk, singer-songwriter	6.5
HELIOS Ayres electro-acoustic	6
HELIOS Caesura ambient, electro-acoustic	7.5
HELP STAMP OUT LONELINESS Help Stamp Out Loneliness alt-pop	7.5
HEY MARSEILLES To Travels And Trunks alt-folk	7.5
HHYMN In The Depths chamber folk, folk-pop	7.5
HILDUR GUDNADOTTIR Without Sinking dark ambient, modern classical	7
HJALTALIN Terminal orchestral pop-folk	6.5
HOAX FUNERAL Pour Away The Ocean alt-folk	7
HOOD Cold House rustic folk gone to town
HOPE SANDOVAL - MAZZY STAR Through The Devil Softly dream-pop, songwriter	7
HORSE FEATHERS Thistled Spring chamber folk, singer-songwriter	6.5
HRSTA Stem Stem In Electro post-rock	6.5
IDA Lovers Prayers slow-core	6.5
IMAAD WASIF Imaad Wasif songwriter	7.5
IMMUNE Not Until Morning alt-rock, post-rock	7
IMPLODES Black Earth psych-rock	7
ISAN Glow In The Dark Safari Set indietronica	5.5
JACASZEK Pentral dark-ambient	6
JACASZEK Treny dark ambient, modern classical	7
JAMES BLACKSHAW All Is Falling fingerpicking, modern-creative	6.5
JAMES BREWSTER As A Hovering Insect Mass Breaks Your Fall avantgarde, sound-design	6
JAPANESE GUM Hey Folks! Nevermind, We Are All Falling Down electro-gaze, IDM, indietronica	6
JASON MOLINA Fading Trails folk-rock	6.5
JASON MOLINA Josephine country-folk, singer-songwriter	6.5
JASON MOLINA Let Me Go Let Me Go Let Me Go songwriter	7
JASON MOLINA Molina And Johnson songwriter	7
JASON MOLINA Sojourner folk-rock, singer-songwriter	7
JASON MOLINA Trials & Errors folk-rock	5.5
JBM Not Even In July songwriter	7
JENS LEKMAN An Argument With Myself Ep alt-pop, songwriter	6
JESSICA BAILIFF At The Down-Turned Jagged Rim Of The Sky drone-folk, singer-songwriter	7
JESSICA BAILIFF Since Always lo-fi drone-folk	6.5
JJ JJ n° 3 dream-synth-pop	6.5
JOHANN JOHANNSSON And In The Endless Pause There Came The Sound Of Bees dark ambient, modern classical	7
JOHANN JOHANNSSON The Miners’ Hymns modern classical	6.5
JOHN SHANNON American Mystic songwriter	7
JOKER'S DAUGHTER The Last Laugh psych-folk-pop	6.5
JONSI Go dream-pop, Sigur Rós	6.5
JONSI & ALEX Riceboy Sleeps ambient, electro-acoustic, modern classical	6
JULIA KENT Green And Grey ambient, modern classical	6.5
JULIANNA BARWICK The Magic Place drone-folk, glossolalia	6.5
JULY SKIES The Weather Clock ambient-acoustic	8
JUMPEL Deuxième Bureau ambient, electro-acoustic	6.5
JURI LENARD AND FRIENDS Naked Seashore acoustic folk, singer-songwriter	6.5
KATH BLOOM Thin Thin Line alt-folk, singer-songwriter	6.5
KLIMA Klima dream-pop, electro-pop	7
KLIMA Serenades & Serinettes electro-acoustic dream-pop, songwriter	8
KLIMEK Dedications ambient, electro-acoustic	7
KLIMEK Movies Is Magic ambient, electro-acoustic	6.5
L'ALTRA Telepathic dream-pop	6.5
L'UOMO DI VETRO 38° Parallelo post-rock	6.5
L'UOMO DI VETRO A Merry Christmas post-rock	6
LADY SPACE Long Lost In A Twilight Head Psych-folk	7.5
LADYBUG TRANSISTOR Clutching Stems alt-pop	7
LAETITIA SADIER The Trip avant-pop, dream-pop	5.5
LALI PUNA Our Inventions dream-pop, electro-pop	6
LAST DAYS The Safety Of The North ambient	7
LAURA SHEERAN Lust Of Pig & The Fresh Blood dark-folk, singer-songwriter	7
LAURA VEIRS July Flame songwriter	6.5
LE LENDEMAIN Fires ambient, modern classical	7.5
LE MAN AVEC LES LUNETTES Plaskaplaskabombelibom alt-pop	6
LEE MEMORIAL The Lives Of Lee Memorial alt-rock	6
LES MANGE-TOUT Les Mange-Tout alt-pop	7
LEYLAND KIRBY Eager To Tear Apart The Stars ambient-classical, drone	7
LIBRARY TAPES A Summer Beneath The Trees modern classical	7
LIBRARY TAPES Fragment modern classical	7
LIBRARY TAPES Like Green Grass Against A Blue Sky ambient, modern classical	6.5
LIBRARY TAPES Sketches modern classical	7
LIGHTSWAY Summer Interlude ambient, dream post-rock	6.5
LITTLEBOW The Edge Blown Aerophone avant-garde, chamber-prog, electro-acoustic	6.5
LONER DELUXE Must Not Sleep Must Warn Others / Lost & Found ambient-folk, electro-acoustic	6.5
LOSCIL Coast/Range/Arc ambient drone	6.5
LOSCIL Endless Falls ambient, dub, electro-acoustic	8
LOSCIL Sketches From New Brighton ambient dub	7
LOST IN THE TREES All Alone In An Empty House alt-folk, singer-songwriter	7
LOTTE KESTNER China Mountain songwriter	7.5
LOTTE KESTNER Stolen dream-cover	7
LOUISVILLE A Silent Effort In The Night alt-folk, ambient-post-rock, avant-garde	7
LULL Like A Slow River ambient drone	6.5
M. OSTERMEIER Chance Reconstruction ambient, electro-acoustic	6.5
MACHINEFABRIEK Daas ambient drone, avant-garde	7
MANSFIELD.TYA Seules Au Bout De 23 Secondes alt-rock, pop-rock	6
MARIGOLD Erotomania alt-rock, noise-rock	6.5
MARIGOLD Tajga alt-rock, noise-wave	6.5
MARK EITZEL Klamath songwriter	6
MARK FRY / THE A. LORDS I Lived In Trees Psych-folk	7.5
MARSEN JULES Nostalgia ambient, modern classical	7
MASCARA L’amore e la filosofia rock-wave	6
MATT CHRISTENSEN A Cradle In The Bowery slow-psych-folk	6.5
MATT ELLIOTT Drinking Songs alt-folk, singer-songwriter	7
MATT ELLIOTT Failed Songs post-folk, singer-songwriter	7
MATT ELLIOTT Failing Songs post-folk, singer-songwriter	8
MATT ELLIOTT Howling Songs post-folk, singer-songwriter	8
MATTHEW COOPER Some Days Are Better Than Others soundtrack	6.5
MATTHEW ROBERT COOPER Miniatures minimal piano ambient	6.5
MAX RICHTER 24 Postcards In Full Colour post-classical	7
MAX RICHTER Infra avant-garde, modern classical	7
MECHANICAL BRIDE Living With Ants songwriter	6
MELODIUM Coloribus folktronica	5.5
MELODIUM My Mind Is Falling To Pieces folktronica, singer-songwriter	6.5
MEMORY DRAWINGS Music For Another Loss rural chamber-folk	7.5
MEMORYHOUSE The Years Ep slow-dream-pop	7
MESSAGE TO BEARS Departures ambient-folk	7
MI AND L’AU Good Morning Jokers chamber folk, singer-songwriter	7.5
MIA DOI TODD Gea folk, singer-songwriter	7
MIKE KINSELLA New Leaves songwriter	6.5
MILENASONG Seven Sisters folktronica, singer-songwriter	7
MILLIMETRIK & PORT-ROYAL Afterglow ambient, electro-gaze, IDM	7
MIMES OF WINE Apocalypse Sets In songwriter	7
MINKS By The Hedge dark-wave, dream-pop	7
MIRRORRING Foreign Body drone-folk	7
MOGWAI Earth Division Ep alt-rock	7.5
MOGWAI Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will alt-rock	7
MOGWAI The Hawk Is Howling post-rock	7
MOMBI The Wounded Beat alt-folk, ambient	7
MONO You Are There post-rock	7
MORNING BENDERS Big Echo alt-pop-rock	6
MORNING TELEFILM O Time art-pop, folktronica, singer-songwriter	6
MUFFIN Grapes chamber folk, psych-folk	7.5
MUFFIN Last Apple minimal dream-folk	7
MÙM Sing Along To Songs You Don’t Know alt-pop, folktronica	7
MURCOF The Versailles Sessions chamber-avant	6
MURRALIN LANE Our House Is On The Wall post-atomic drone-core	7.5
MUS La Vida alt-folk, dream-pop	7
MUSETTA Mice To Meet You electro-pop, trip-hop	6
MUSIC & MIGRATION Music & Migration I I alt-folk, electro-acoustic, modern classical	7
MUSIC FOR DEAD BIRDS And Then It Rained For Seven Days… alt-folk	6.5
MY AUTUMN EMPIRE The Village Compass ambient-acoustic, rural folk	6.5
MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND All Things Will Unwind avant-pop, songwriter	7
MY EDUCATION Italian post-rock	6
MY LATEST NOVEL Deaths & Entrances alt-pop, alt-rock	6
NADJA / NETHERWORLD Magma To Ice ambient drone	6.5
NETHERWORLD Mørketid ambient	7
NETHERWORLD Over The Summit ambient drone	7
NHILE Far Away From Here ambient, electro-acoustic	6.5
NHILE Nuvole dream-wave, electro-acoustic	6
NILS FRAHM Felt modern classical	6
NK - NINO LO BUE Sleep Spindles electro-acoustic	6
NOVELLER Desert Fires ambient drone, post-noise	6.5
NOVELLER Glacial Glow pedal/loop guitar-drone	6
NUDGE As Good As Gone ambient, electro-pop, psych-dub	6
ODRAN TRUMMEL Mutants And Loonies psych-pop, songwriter	6.5
OKIE ROSETTE Leap Second alt-folk	7
OLAFUR ARNALDS …And They Have Escaped The Weight Of Darkness modern classical, post-rock	7
OLAFUR ARNALDS Dyad 1909 dark-ambient, glitch, modern classical	6.5
OLAFUR ARNALDS Found Songs modern classical	7
OLAFUR ARNALDS Variations Of Static modern classical, post-rock	7
ÓLÖF ARNALDS Innundir Skinni folk, singer-songwriter	7
ON Something That Has Form And Something That Does Not ambient drone, impro	6.5
ORA COGAN The Quarry alt-folk	6
OUR BROKEN GARDEN Golden Sea electro-(dream)-pop	5
PADANG FOOD TIGERS Born Music drone-folk, electro-acoustic	7
PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART Belong alt-pop-rock	7
PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart alt-pop	7.5
PAN AMERICAN For Waiting, For Chasing ambient	6
PAN AMERICAN Quiet City ambient	7.5
PAN AMERICAN White Bird Release ambient, electro-acoustic	7
PARALLEL LIONS Holding Patterns alt-pop, alt-rock	6.5
PART TIMER Real To Reel electro-acoustic, folktronica, slow-core	8
PASCAL PINON Pascal Pinon bedroom folk-pop	6.5
PECKINPAH That’s All Bad Folk folk-pop, songwriter	6.5
PETE ASTOR Songbox chamber pop, chanson, songwriter	8
PETER BRODERICK Docile modern classical	7
PETER BRODERICK Float modern classical	7.5
PETER BRODERICK Home ambient-acoustic, songwriter	6.5
PETER BRODERICK How They Are modern classical, songwriter	8
PETER BRODERICK Music For Confluence modern classical, soundtrack	6.5
PETER BRODERICK Music For Falling From Trees modern classical	6.5
PETER BRODERICK Ten Duets modern classical	6.5
PETER BRODERICK Three Film Scores Intakes modern classical	6.5
PETER BRODERICK & MACHINEFABRIEK Blank Grey Canvas Sky ambient drone, modern classical	7
PETER DELANEY Duck Egg Blue alt-folk	6.5
PHANTOM DOG BENEATH THE MOON The Trees, The Sea In A Lunar Stream avant-folk	7
PIANO MAGIC Dark Horses alt-rock	6.5
PIANO MAGIC Disaffected pop-wave	8
PIANO MAGIC Home Recordings piano magic
PIANO MAGIC Ovations dark-wave, synth-pop-rock	7.5
PIANO MAGIC Part-Monster alt-rock, pop-wave	7
PICASTRO Become Secret post-folk	7
PICASTRO Whore Luck alt-rock, post-rock	6.5
PJUSK Tele dark-ambient, dub, electro-acoustic	6.5
PLANTMAN Closer To The Snow alt-pop	7.5
PLINTH Music For Smalls Lighthouse electro-acoustic, victorian soundscapes	6.5
PLINTH & TEXTILE RANCH The Rest, I Leave It To The Poor ambient, electro-acoustic	6.5
POLVO In Prism alt-rock, noise-rock	5.5
PORT-ROYAL 2000-2010: The Golden Age Of Consumerism electro-gaze	7
PORT-ROYAL Afraid To Dance ambient, dream post-rock, electronica	8
PORT-ROYAL Dying In Time ambient, electro-gaze, IDM	7.5
PORT-ROYAL Flared Up electronic	6.5
PORT-ROYAL Flares post-rock	7
PORT-ROYAL / ABSENT WITHOUT LEAVE Magnitogorsk ambient, dream post-rock	7
PORTAL [UK] Options dream-pop, synth-pop	6.5
PROTESTANT WORK ETHIC The Jar And Shock alt-folk, singer-songwriter	6.5
PUFFIN ON MY SIDE Lech-Lecha dream post-rock	6.5
PUZZLE MUTESON En Garde songwriter	7.5
RACHAEL DADD Bite The Mountain alt-folk, singer-songwriter	7
RACHEL GRIMES Book Of Leaves modern classical	7.5
RACHEL'S The Sea And The Bells modern classical, post-rock
RADIO DEPT. Clinging To A Scheme alt-pop-rock	6.5
RAFAEL ANTON IRISARRI It All Falls Apart ambient, electro-gaze, minimal techno	7.5
RAMESES III I Could Not Love You More ambient-acoustic, drone-folk	7.5
RENFRO Mathematics minimal electro-pop	7
RETINA.IT Descending Into Crevasse ambient drone	7
REVGLOW 9th Chrysalis electro-(dream)-pop	6.5
REVGLOW Chrysalis Ep electro-(dream)-pop	6
REVGLOW Liquid Pearls dark, electro-acoustic	6
RICHARD MOULT Celestial King For A Year modern classical	6
RICHARD MOULT Suite For Tor Aluinn modern classical	6.5
RICHARD MOULT Yclypt modern classical	6.5
RIVULETS We’re Fucked slow-core, songwriter	6.5
RIVULETS You Are My Home slowcore, songwriter	7.5
ROBH HOKUM Below Ice I Lie songwriter	7
ROKKURRO Í Annan Heim alt-rock	7
ROKKURRO Það Kólnar Í Kvöld… alt-folk-pop	7
RUDI ARAPAHOE Echoes From One To Another dark ambient, modern classical	6.5
RYAN FRANCESCONI Parables fingerpicking	5
SAETA Else Another Light Might Go Out alt-rock, dream-pop	7
SANSO-XTRO Fountain Fountain Joyous Mountain electro-acoustic, kosmische	6.5
SARA LOV I Already Love You dream-cover	6.5
SARA LOV Seasoned Eyes Were Beaming dream-pop, songwriter	7
SARAH JUNE In Black Robes goth-folk, singer-songwriter	6.5
SCOTT MATTHEW Gallantry’s Favorite Son songwriter	7
SEAPONY Go With Me alt-pop-rock	6.5
SECRET SHINE All Of The Stars dreampop, shoegaze	7
SEPIA HOURS When We’ll Cross These Days, These Seasons And Their Closes ambient, indietronica	6.5
SHADY BARD From The Ground Up folk-pop	7
SHADY BARD Trials alt-rock, chamber folk
SHANNON WRIGHT Honeybee Girls songwriter	7
SHANNON WRIGHT Secret Blood alt-rock, songwriter	6
SHAULA Tochka ambient	6
SHAULA Yona ambient	6.5
SHIPPING NEWS One Less Heartless To Fear alt-rock, post-punk	6.5
SIGUR RÒS Ágætis Byrjun dreamy post-rock
SIGUR RÒS Hvarf / Heim sigur rós	8
SIGUR RÒS Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust acoustic, dream-folk-pop	7
SIGUR RÒS Takk… dream-pop	7.5
SIGUR RÒS Valtari ambient pop	6.5
SISKIYOU Siskiyou lo-fi folk	6.5
SKALLANDER Skallander alt-folk	6.5
SLEEPING ME Cradlesongs ambient, dream post-rock	7
SLOW DANCING SOCIETY Priest Lake Circa ‘88 ambient-post-rock	6.5
SMALL TOWN BOREDOM Autumn Might Have Hope sadcore-pop	8
SMALL TOWN BOREDOM Notes From The Infirmary sadcore-pop	7.5
SMOG Apocalypse songwriter	7
SMOG Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle songwriter	7.5
SODASTREAM Reservations folk-pop	7.5
SOLANDER Passing Mt. Satu chamber folk-pop	7
SOLEY We Sink alt-pop, songwriter	6.5
SONIC YOUTH The Eternal alt-rock	5
SOPHIE HUTCHINGS Becalmed modern classical	7.5
SPAIN The Blue Moods Of Spain chamber pop, sadcore
SPAIN The Soul Of Spain chamber pop	7
SPOKANE Little Hours ambient, slow-core	8
SQUARES ON BOTH SIDES Indication bedroom-tronica, electro-acoustic	6.5
SQUARES ON BOTH SIDES Salt Meadows electro-acoustic, indietronica	7
STARLESS & BIBLE BLACK Starless & Bible Black alt-folk	7
STEREOLAB Chemical Chords alt-pop	6
STEREOLAB Not Music kraut-pop, lounge-pop	5
STILL CORNERS Creatures Of An Hour dark-wave, dream-pop	7.5
STRANDED HORSE Humbling Tides chanson, ethno-folk	7.5
STUART A. STAPLES Leaving Songs songwriter	7
SUFJAN STEVENS All Delighted People Ep orchestral folk-rock, singer-songwriter	7.5
SUFJAN STEVENS Illinois songwriter	8
SUFJAN STEVENS Songs For Christmas songwriter	7
SUFJAN STEVENS The Age Of Adz songwriter, space age orchestral pop	7
SUFJAN STEVENS The Avalanche folk-rock, singer-songwriter	6.5
SUFJAN STEVENS The BQE chamber music	6
SUFJAN STEVENS / OSSO Run Rabbit Run chamber music	5.5
SUN KIL MOON Admiral Fell Promises songwriter	7
SUN KIL MOON April songwriter	7.5
SWARTZ Nighttide ambient drone, electro-acoustic	6.5
SWOD Sekunden electro-acoustic, modern classical	7
SYLVAIN CHAUVEAU Nuage modern classical	7.5
SYLVAIN CHAUVEAU Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated) avant-garde, singer-songwriter	7
SYLVAIN CHAUVEAU Touching Down Lightly experimental piano music, impro	6
SYSTEMS OFFICER Underslept alt-pop	6
TAKAHIRO KIDO Fleursy Music post-rock	7
TANAKH Ardent Fevers alt-folk	6.5
TANAKH Dieu Deuil alt-folk, post-rock	7.5
TANAKH Saunders Hollow alt-folk	6.5
TARA JANE O' NEIL A Ways Away alt-folk, singer-songwriter	6.5
TAXI TAXI! Still Standing At Your Back Door alt-pop	7
TEARS RUN RINGS Always, Sometimes, Seldom, Never dreampop, shoegaze	7
TEARS RUN RINGS Distance dream pop, shoegaze	6.5
TEMJIIN Diamond Scattered Jet Black Curtain dream post-rock, electro-acoustic	7
TEX LA HOMA Little Flashes Of Sunlight On A Cold Dark Sea songwriter	7.5
THE ACCIDENTAL There Where Wolves alt-folk, folk-pop	7
THE ALBUM LEAF A Chorus Of Storytellers dream-tronica	7
THE ALBUM LEAF In A Safe Place ambient pop	8
THE ALBUM LEAF Into The Blue Again ambient pop, dream-tronica	7
THE BALUSTRADE ENSEMBLE Capsules ambient, electro-acoustic	6.5
THE BEAR THAT WASN'T And So It Is Morning Dew alt-pop, songwriter	7.5
THE BEAUTIFUL SCHIZOPHONIC Erotikon ambient, drone	7.5
THE BEAUTIFUL SCHIZOPHONIC Musicamorosa ambient	7
THE CARETAKER An Empty Bliss Beyond This World drone, field recordings	6
THE CHILD OF A CREEK Find A Shelter Along The Path alt-folk, psych-folk	7
THE CHILD OF A CREEK Whispering Tales Under An Emerald Sun Psych-folk	6.5
THE DECLINING WINTER Goodbye Minnesota rustic folk-dub	7
THE DECLINING WINTER Haunt The Upper Hallways alt-rock, rustic-folk	7
THE DECLINING WINTER Scenes From The Back Bedroom Window lo-fi drone-folk	7
THE HEAD AND THE HEART The Head And The Heart alt-folk	6.5
THE MAGICKAL FOLK OF THE FARAWAY TREE The Soup & The Shilling folk	6.5
THE NEW YEAR The New Year alt-rock	6.5
THE ONE AM RADIO This Too Will Pass alt-pop, songwriter	7
THE R.G. MORRISON Farewell, My Lovely songwriter	6.5
THE SLEEPING YEARS We’re Becoming Islands One By One pop, songwriter	7.5
THE STATIC SILENCE Found ambient-shoegaze, dream-pop	7
THE TOY LIBRARY Haunted Woodland – Volume One ambient, drone	6
THEE SILVER MT. ZION M. ORCHESTRA & TRA-LA-LA BAND Horses In The Sky post-rock	7
THIRD EYE FOUNDATION The Dark apocalyptic dub	7
THIS IMMORTAL COIL The Dark Age Of Love tribute	8
THIS WILL DESTROY YOU Tunnel Blanket post-rock	6.5
THOUSAND & BRAMIER Go Typhoon! alt-folk	7
TIM HECKER An Imaginary Country ambient, drone	7
TIM HECKER Dropped Pianos ambient, modern classical	7
TIM HECKER Ravedeath, 1972 ambient drone	8
TINDERSTICKS Tindersticks chamber pop
TINY RUINS Some Were Meant For Sea songwriter	6.5
TREMBLING BLUE STARS Fast Trains And Telegraph Wires alt-pop	7.5
TUNNG …And Then We Saw Land alt-folk-pop, folktronica	6.5
TUNNG Good Arrows alt-folk	7.5
TUPOLEV Towers Of Sparks avant-garde, post-classical	6.5
TYNEHAM HOUSE Tyneham House electro-acoustic, pastoral ghost-folk	7
UN VORTICE DI BASSA PRESSIONE Anonymous Said ambient, dream post-rock	7
VALGEIR SIGURDSSON Draumalandið modern classical, soundtrack	6.5
VALGEIR SIGURDSSON Ekvílibríum dream-pop, electronica	6.5
VERONICA FALLS Veronica Falls alt-pop, noise-pop	7
VETIVER Tight Knit alt-folk, singer-songwriter	6.5
VIC CHESNUTT At The Cut chamber post-rock, songwriter	7.5
VIC CHESNUTT North Star Deserter post-rock, songwriter	8
VILLA VENUS Villa Venus Ep slow-dream-core	7.5
WARM MORNING Too Far From The Stars alt-pop	7
WAS After Dinner slow-core, songwriter	7
WES WILLENBRING Close, But Not Too Close ambient, electro-acoustic	6.5
WES WILLENBRING Somewhere Someone Else ambient	7
WHEN THE CLOUDS The Longed- For Season dream-tronica, post-rock	6.5
WHIP Blues For Losers songwriter	7
WHITETREE Cloudland electronic, modern classical	5.5
WIDOWSPEAK Widowspeak alt-pop-rock, dream-pop	6.5
WILD NOTHING Gemini alt-pop, dream-synth-gaze	7
WILL SAMSON Hello Friends, Goodbye Friends ambient-acoustic, songwriter	6.5
WILLARD GRANT CONSPIRACY Paper Covers Stone songwriter	6
WILLARD GRANT CONSPIRACY Pilgrim Road alt-country, singer-songwriter	7.5
WINDSOR FOR THE DERBY Against Love ambient-kraut, post-pop	6.5
WINTER TOOK HIS LIFE You Know What It’s Like To Be Alone And Shut Down songwriter	7.5
WOODEN BIRDS Magnolia alt-pop, bedroom-pop	6
WOODEN BIRDS Two Matchsticks bedroom-pop	5.5
WORKHOUSE Flyover post-wave	7.5
WORKHOUSE The Coldroom Sessions dark-wave, post-gaze	6.5
YANN TIERSEN Dust Lane orchestral folk-rock	6
YELLOW6 Painted Sky ambient, dream post-rock	7
YELLOW6 Sthlm ambient, dream post-rock	6.5
YELLOW6 When The Leaves Fall Like Snow ambient, dream post-rock	6.5
YOUAREHERE As When The Fall Leaves Trees electro-ambient, idm	7
ZAZIE VON EINEM ANDEREN STERN Regen: Tropfen electro-acoustic, modern classical	6.5

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