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As 2023 draws to a close, music editor Chris Farnsworth is making his list and checking it twice — for albums from Vermont musicians that...

The music of Oleh Zaychenko, who performs under the moniker Bring Prudence, alternately shimmers with the subtle textures of chamber pop and seamlessly breaks into folk-rock, recalling the soundtrack of the folk revival of the 1960s with a sound he calls “folk resuscitation.” His next single, “Summon the Ghost,” is out today, a tribute to the power of memory that features a Balinese gendèr — often used for significant ceremonies — as well as a slightly out-of-tune Brooklyn public li...

Seven Days' music desk has snapped in half from the collective weight of new albums submitted for review by Vermont musicians. Somewhere beneath the broken...

(Cuneiform Records, CD, digital) Two themes run throughout Jack O' the Clock's newest LP, Leaving California; one is conceptual, the other structural. The story of...