Lars Gotrich

The piano's ornamental blip in Emma Ruth Rundle's "Body" draws your attention to how the music moves the narrative of the funereal ballad forward.

"Jesus Maria" simmers the regal, brass-forward Christmas carol composed by Carla Bley into a sunset.

The kind of sumptuous torch song that Carey hasn't sung in a minute, "Fall in Love at Christmas" is a carol for grown folks several seasons into their love.

Young parents, this song is for you.

Snail Mail's Lindsey Jordan and singer-songwriter Mac DeMarco will join WPLN News' Paige Pfleger in a live conversation about the album.

The artist revisits five songs across his extensive discography of heavy shoegaze and dreamy rock and roll, processing life, faith and purpose.

Black-metal screams and glitched vampiric beats rise to the surface on this effervescent two-minute banger.

In Circuit des Yeux's Tiny Desk (home) concert — recorded at Chicago's historic May Chapel — Haley Fohr's operatic, four-octave vibrato contains a wondrous terror, but also an illumination of being.

A deep listening experience from the ambient-jazz quartet.

For her Tiny Desk (home) concert, Yasmin Williams keeps the background sparse to foreground her inventive playing.

WBGO's Nate Chinen will be joined by saxophonist Branford Marsalis and harpist Brandee Younger in a live conversation about this recently unearthed live recording.

A groovy refinement of Dummy's influences — namely, the unclassifiable and impossibly cool pop music of Stereolab, Broadcast and Silver Apples.

In 2 minutes and 20 seconds, Philly rave duo Ghösh turns the dance floor into a mosh pit.

Maria Elena Silva's voice floats like a feather swishing this way and that, painting invisible shapes with the wind. Her music, spacious and exploratory, does the same.

Resonant gongs, vibraphone, fluttering trumpet and groaning, synth-like transmissions from Aarset's guitar coalesce over the seven minutes of "Manta Ray."

A two-minute bruiser taken from the Toronto five-piece's new album, Conditioned to Chaos.

The latest from the kaleidoscopic songwriter features a self-sensuous hook that curls up inside your psyche.

With its shufflin' rhythm section and a bendy line harmonized by double guitar, "You Gave Me the Key" choogles along to Doiron's bright rasp tinged with a touch of life's uncertainty.

"To Kill A Wind-Up Bird," off of multi-instrumentalist and composer Patrick Shiroishi's upcoming solo album Hidemi, layers saxophone and woodwinds in a frantic, yet controlled splatter.

A new reissue uncovers Mitch Easter's original mix for Love Tractor's most popular song. The jangly rock band was featured in the Athens, Ga.: Inside/Out documentary.