Painter Eric LoPresti’s “An Ocean of Light” at Burning in Water Gallery

A sublime artistic study on nuclear craters, quiet terror and atomic bomb test sites

Hanford Site, a decommissioned nuclear production complex where engineers created plutonium for the Manhattan Project, sits a little more than 30 minutes by car from Richland, Washington—the birthplace of painter Eric LoPresti. Richland may have been an innocuous suburb, but after LoPresti’s move to New York, he took interest in Hanford’s past. Using oil and watercolor, the artist dissected components, compiled pieces and a new …

LUMP: Late to the Flight

The self-titled debut album of LUMP—a collaborative project of singer/songwriter Laura Marling and Tunng’s Mike Lindsay—will drop 1 June and its second track release “Late to the Flight” has struck. With incisive lyrics and a slow, rumbling underbelly, the track aims to address the idea of public personas through a universe of lucid dreaming. Suffice to say, Marling and Lindsay succeed with beauty in tow.

Patrick Paige II: Voodoo

Patrick Paige II (also bassist/producer for The Internet) is set to release his debut album (which he has been working on for three years) Letters of Irrelevance later this month, and from it comes “Voodoo,” a lush, sexy tune that’s influenced by ’90s neo-soul without sounding like a throwback. This rich, hazy and slinky tune hints at a tremendous record, for which Paige will offer …