Small Black
New Chain

Lately it seems there's nothing the music world (read: Brooklyn) loves more than a little minimalistic chill-pop. The past year has seen the distinct ...

As both Washed Out’s support and backing band this past spring, Small Black proved a pleasant experience, laying down enough solid beats and synth-dro...

Out of all the bands labeled as "chillwave," Small Black's inclusion in the subgenre always seemed more like the product of journalistic convenience t...

To a warm wall of enveloping fuzz, Brooklyn four-piece Small Black pitch-bend their way through ‘New Chain’, occasionally punctuating their Casio pop ...

Listening to Small Black perform New Chain is like watching lovely but reclusive exotic fish wander around a fortified aquarium. There's a sense of di...

Small Black's Josh Kolenik and Ryan Heyner spent the better part of the year generating a pretty substantial fanbase with their self-titled EP. The fi...

Just ten-tracks barely clocking in past the half-hour mark, but New York quartet, Small Black, couldn’t have been better timed with the public and pr...

On New Chain , the Brooklyn quartet's debut full-length on the ever-expanding Jagjaguwar label, Small Black successfully smudge the lines that separat...

The music that began as a bedroom project. The summery, distorted anthems. The 80s-nodding beats - it’s not as if the world needs another dreamy, fogg...

Are guitars outdated No, they’re not. Everyone still loves guitars, but stay with me, here. The ‘00s saw new wave revivalism take on epic proportions...