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"Ever since I was a kid, improvising guitar loops in my bedroom has been my deepest source of self-exploration and restoration. It’s a means to cleanse my space, to make a psychological architecture in my home where I can access my heart and cultivate some kind of internal movement in times of stasis.” Rachika Nayar on fragments, released as an expanded vinyl edition April 7, 2023.

"For years I tried to have a serious 'compositional practice' that was built on very intentional and conceptual idioms. I learned that this kind of creating was very unfulfilling for me, and so, I pivoted into what I call 'play, most of all.' Or just 'play music.’ I don’t try to write in the sense that I know what I am doing, I try to not think too much about what I am doing at all… I just play.” M. Sage on the process / play behind Paradise Crick, released May 26, 2023.

“Sound Scribbles is an ongoing accumulation of improvisations whose genesis is similar to singing in the shower or making a prank phone call. The structure of these songs meander like a kid's made-up story – logic can about-face, and in an instant, turn on itself. Humor, nonsense, and absurdity are loud, but sometimes the motoric, chanted pulses of these songs reveal a love of classical, modern classical, and extended vocal technique” Brian Belott on Sound Scribbles, released March 31, 2023.

"There is a visceral exchange happening on this record. some pushing and pulling, and some improvising turns that shift the music. For me, it's not a safe, comfortable listen. it feels deeper than that — somewhat vulnerable and exposed. There is a real human exchange that I hope engages the listener.” Steve Gunn on his collaboration with David Moore, Let the Moon Be a Planet. The first edition in our new Reflections series, released March 31, 2023.

“I think of feminine energy as a very strong energy… that’s why I relate to the ocean so much: I think that movement of the waves, that steady, consistent, ongoing, purposeful but slow rhythm is a feminine rhythm… Kaitlyn naturally has that energy, too, not that we don’t have masculine energy as well! We had moments where we put our boy hats on and said, 'We can do that. We can make noise, We can be loud’” Suzanne Ciani speaking w/ Aquarium Drunkard about Sunergy, her FRKWYS collaboration with Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, released as an expanded edition March 24, 2023.

“I sometimes see making an album as shaking a bag of toys or weird objects and throwing it on the floor to see what happens next and what kind of pattern they form. That’s the vibe of WOW—random, weird but funny and beautiful in its own way” Kate NV on WOW, her latest album released March 3, 2023.