Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here?In the late 2000s a sprawling catalog of what is now genre defining music was emanating from an unlikely place. Cleveland, Ohio has a broad reputation for many things, but in the aughts, psyche expanding Kosmische wasnt necessarily Clevelands calling card until Emeralds. The trio of John Elliott, Steve Hauschildt, and Mark McGuire had released a profusion of limited run cassettes, CD Rs, and vinyl titles that had been passed around basement shows and

Connors began self-releasing records of his singular guitar improvisations and compositions in 1978

and various reed instruments

and it was on these cassettes that the sessions for Wild Strawberries were taped

enry 'Junjo' Lawes produced 'Big Showdown' Original Greensleeves assembled dub clash with Scientist and Prince Jammy going dub fe dub at King Tubby's on a crucial selection of Junjo's classic Roots Radics propelled rhythms

covering Jason Molina for Secretly Canadian’s SC25 Series

Geist feels like a window - or a mirror - into possibilities of the self and beyond

the haunted 'Dreams And Images' is the first of two albums from the Melbourne

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'Spleen And Ideal' (1985)

going into 2021 and beyond

UK singer STAC’s voice cuts through with a breathy kind of clarity on ‘Over and Over’

Joy Division’s ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’