On this edition of All Songs Considered, our resident Viking, Lars Gotrich, and I give voice to artists making music on the outer fringes. First, it's Julie Christmas and a voice that can scrape souls ...

Before signing Balmorhea, a neoclassical group led by Texas natives Michael A. Muller and Rob Lowe, in 2020, the renowned German classical music label Deutsche Grammophon had never, to the group’s ...

Ahead of a 2010 Balmorhea show in Brooklyn, the New Yorker gushed in its listing sections about the band’s fourth album, Constellations. “It is an exemplary experiment in restraint, lush with a ...

It’s a challenge to keep any creative partnership fresh, especially when the partners involved have known each other for more than 20 years. “Every album that comes along,” says Robert Griffin Lowe of ...

Your browser does not support the video. Balmorhea is named after a tiny town in West Texas, so the epic, mostly instrumental band seemed like a natural fit for State ...

The Wind, the highly anticipated new album from lauded minimalist group Balmorhea, is out today via Deutsche Grammophon; listen/share below. The record comprises a dozen tracks inspired variously by ...

The crescendo of the song is the e-bowed guitar line with the subtly sweeping acoustic strumming underneath. RL: Again, I think this track strongly calls back to some of our early work as Balmorhea, ...

Now a six-piece band, Austin's Balmorhea has come a long way from its days as a two-man outfit. Building upon both classical and post rock influences, Balmorhea's third album, All is Wild, All is ...

Just a month ago, a drive across I-10 proved a treacherous endeavor with assertive crosswinds from the north and swirls of dust that left visibility around 20 or 30 yards. Gassing up in Fort Stockton, ...