It's amazing what can be done with what is essentially a string quartet, some piano and distant, static-filled broadcasts over ancient radio equipment.  Full text...

Given Songs From Before's thematic conceit, this is appropriate: Richter isn't interested in changing the way the world hears his music as much as idealizing how he wants to hear it. He resurrects past idols for present idioms, his heroes, proclivities and experiences donned as unrepentantly as the nostalgia at Songs' core.  Full text...

Richter’s third album, Songs from Before, sees no fundamental change in any aspect of his approach. If you’re worried, you shouldn’t be.   Full text...

Cenozoic and Neolithic and Holocene overlapping and looped to produce a menagerie of sounds taken from the few moments in all of those millions of years that were catastrophic enough for the whole world to notice. These Songs From Before extend these memorable moments in echoes like a dancer in slow motion.  Full text...

Songs From Before is light and it's solemn, and the two make for an obvious listen.   Full text...