Executive Overview In the shadowy corridors of the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), where human vulnerability is met with the unyielding, synthetic pulse of life support, composer and saxophonist Jon Armstrong found himself engaged in a desperate, profound act of sonic translation. Out of the harrowing experience of his son Breen’s extreme premature birth—arriving at … Read more
Executive Overview The romanticized myth of the "tortured genius"—the self-destructive artist doomed to linger indefinitely in the wreckage of their own suffering—has long exerted a seductive grip over alternative and progressive music. With her latest studio triumph, As We Once Were, Welsh multi-instrumentalist, producer, and scholar Catherine Anne Davies—who records under the moniker The Anchoress—delivers … Read more
Executive Overview The recording of Slipknot’s landmark 2001 sophomore album, Iowa, remains one of the most fraught and relentless chapters in heavy music history. At the epicenter of this tumultuous production was legendary producer Ross Robinson. Having previously guided the nine-piece Iowan nu-metal group through their groundbreaking 1999 self-titled debut, the 59-year-old producer returned to … Read more
