Richard Youngs [Tessellations, Jagjaguwar]

New abstract folk music from Richard Youngs. This music kind of makes you sit down and just listen to what is going on, but then again, Youngs has been doing this for awhile. The track "Tessellations" will be off his new LP Amplifying Host July 19th.

Tessellations

Oneida [Horizon, Jagjaguwar]

Absolute II is the final piece in Oneida’s Thank Your Parents triptych of releases, begun in 2008 with Preteen Weaponry and followed by 2009’s acclaimed triple disc Rated O. With this release, the Brooklyn group concludes a challenging and profound long-term project. The Thank Your Parents triptych, totaling around 200 minutes, is intended to be listened to as a whole or in its component parts. Absolute II stands on its own, in addition to serving as a chapter in an immense whole

Listen to an excerpt from Absolute II below with "Horizon" and check out the rest of the project here

Horizon