Video Age - Away From The CastleVideo Age make breezy and timeless songs that are so ineable, they can only be the result of a decades long friendship and songwriting partnership. Across four albums, Ross Farbe and Ray Micarelli have gleefully worn their influences on their sleeve, writing inviting tunes that reference sounds ranging from disco to pop and indie rock. On their latest LP, Away From The Castle, the New Orleans duo have strayed from nostalgia and instead have honed

bassist Scott Davidson

an album which gathers together the finest recordings of John Grant‰۪s former band The Czars

This anniversary edition of Cardamom Times features reimagined cover art with the focal image of a desolate paradise during sunset — Jamaica Bay in Queens

The album is ripe with “ambient” passages that function like open portals between moments of consonance and clarity

because that past has been erased

When I Live My Dream

a quote from a beloved 90s film seems the perfect summation: "Understanding is reached only

Think Stax with a touch of Detroit sparkle

so it would make sense that Metamorphosed

each inspired by one of the first five movements of the suite

Full Upon Her Burning Lips mines for the expressive

Its spare yet atmospheric production - courtesy of RZA - mapped out the sonic blueprint that countless other hardcore rappers would follow for years to come