Ruth Wogan

In January of this year, Björk released Vulnicura, her ninth studio album, to critical acclaim. Vulnicura Strings is the same record in acoustic form, but— unsurprisingly, given its famously eccentric creator— there’s not a softly strummed guitar to be heard. Instead, its predecessor’s dense electronic instrumentation has been replaced with...

Beach House (a.k.a Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally) are a band that have been, if nothing else, remarkably consistent in their output. The duo had, until recently, released five albums of dependably high-quality dream pop at a rate of one every few years since their debut in 2006; the...