music reviews.

Clare O'Connell – Light Flowing

A Closer Listen, 20 Sept 2025
"Light Flowing is primarily a solo affair, though judicious use of loops and the sporadic appearance of guest musicians add welcome ballast without overtaking the arresting intimacy at the album’s core. Most of the pieces here remain in a fairly restrained and introspective mode, though not to the exclusion of tension and momentum, weighty emotional gesture, or indeed a few moments of thrilling drama." 

Theresa Wong – Journey to the Cave of Guanyin

A Closer Listen, 31 May 2025
"Wong shines here as both composer and performer, building a captivating sound-world from layers of multitracked acoustic cello, principally tuned in just intonation. Based around a narrative of a solitary figure returning from sea to offer prayer to Guanyin, the Chinese folk deity of compassion and mercy, the album feels at once transcendent and firmly rooted to the sensuous earth. "

anthéne – Frailty

A Closer Listen, 3 May 2025
"Atop serene washes of processed guitar, [anthéne] layers simple melodic flourishes and impressionistic field recordings, effecting textured and grainy soundscapes that reverberate with humanity and emotion."

Richard Laviolette – All Wild Things Are Shy

anything/everything, 22 Dec 2024
"There’s a workmanlike quality to All Wild Things Are Shy, though it’s not because there’s a lot of direct mention of work as such, but because there’s a way labour is made visible and tactile here, labour as collective actualization and as individual becoming. You can feel the strain of muscles moving around gear, almost taste the whole becoming more than a sum of parts."