After 17 years in Death Cab For Cutie, Walla has a solo album full of ambient, hand-crafted, subtly enveloping instrumental music. Note: NPR's audio for First Listens comes down after the album is ...

In the fall of 2013, Chris Walla was having a crisis of confidence. After 17 years as guitarist and producer for Death Cab for Cutie, he found himself disinterested in the music they were working on ...

For those of you that don’t know, The Disintegration Loops is a longform ambient work constructed by composer William Basinski. According to lore, Basinski was in the process of transferring ...

Constructing a tape loop is not easy. There’s a lot of things that can go wrong fiddling with a cassette’s plastic cogs and the delicate magnetic tape inside. Tape breaks or becomes unspooled, all ...