Luca Cimarusti, Reader music listings coordinator
Ryley Walker, fingerstyle guitar prodigy
Itasca, Unmoored by the Wind When people call a record “fall music” it usually makes my blood boil, but I gotta give it up for Kayla Cohen, aka Itasca. Unmoored by the Wind, which came out in October, is really brilliant music for this time of year. Cohen’s heady lyrics and incredible guitar playing make my morning hangover a little brighter. Between her, Jessica Pratt, and Kevin Morby, Los Angeles leads the pack when it comes to modern songwriters.
Disappears, “Another Thought” The midwest has produced some of the country’s most exciting underground experimental music over the past decade, but it’s been a minute since I’ve heard a track from a Chicago band that made me stop and say, “Whoa, who is this?” I’m not too familiar with Disappears‘ other work, but this song sounds like Einstürzende Neubauten covering Leonard Cohen, as weird as that seems.
