Robert Rich – What We Left Behind + Vestiges (2016)
Although his music is often consigned to the new age bins of record stores and the bulk of his work has been released on labels more closely associated with that classification, Robert Rich‘s solo and...
View ArticleBrian Eno – Reflection (2017)
Transport yourself into an Enotopia with the ambient master’s latest release on Warp Records. Through the hour-long, other-worldly journey you can still hear the rattling from his previous journey with...
View ArticleSteve Roach – Painting in the Dark (2016)
In this new atmospheric opus, pioneering composer and artist of the transcendent – Steve Roach explores the confluence of texture, tonality, sonic abstraction, continuity and space with a set of 6...
View ArticleWorriedaboutsatan – Blank Tape (2016)
Atmospheric duo Worriedaboutsatan have been on the scene for some time now, traversing a multitude of genres in their compositions, from IDM and glitch to techno and post-rock. Blank Tape is their...
View ArticleIan William Craig – Centres (2016)
After two well-received albums on Sean McCann’s Recital label, Canadian composer Ian William Craig moved up to FatCat Records’ neo-classical imprint 130701 for the release of his most ambitious...
View ArticleSamuel Regan – Stil de Grain (2016)
Samuel Regan‘s music is a communion of calligraphic abstraction, feelings (foremost, dread and love), and an almost confrontational emotional frankness and vulnerability. Formally, his music shows...
View ArticleBjarki –Б / Lefhanded Fuqs / Æ (2016)
While we’re all for honesty and lack of PR bilge, you can’t help but wonder if Bjarki‘s people might have gone a little bit too far towards the unvarnished truth in the introduction to his triptych of...
View ArticleSuzanne Ciani – Buchla Concerts 1975 (2016)
The lost synth manifesto that could have changed the course of electronic music history by the first lady of modular synth history, Suzanne Ciani. Buchla Concerts 1975 is an archival project that not...
View ArticleRashad Becker – Traditional Music of Notional Species vol. II (2016)
Rashad Becker is best known as the skilled mastering guru at Berlin’s famous Dubplates & Mastering, but he’s also making a name for himself as a musician in his own right, first coming to attention...
View ArticleAir – Twentyears [Super Deluxe Edition] (2016)
…third CD is available in the super deluxe edition only, and groups together remixes the band have created for other artists. These included David Bowie, Depeche Mode and Neneh Cherry. Initially lumped...
View ArticleElysia Crampton – Elysia Crampton Presents: Demon City (2016)
…Elysia Crampton, in her own right, has been one of the leaders of a revolution happening in electronic music. The defiantly heterogeneous genderqueer aesthetic of artists like Arca, Rabit, Lotic, and...
View ArticleSteve Jansen – Tender Extinction (2016)
In 1978 Japan released their debut album Adolescent Sex and kick started a career that would span decades. With Steve Jansen on drums the band enjoyed huge success whilst simultaneously creating a...
View ArticleiZem – Hafa (2016)
Journeyman, DJ, radio presenter, beat raconteur – it’s been hard to keep up with all of iZem‘s movements lately. The innovative Lisbon-based French producer has been hard at work on his debut LP Hafa,...
View ArticleEric Copeland – Brooklyn Banks (2016)
Brooklyn Banks is the 10th solo record in as many years from alien mastermind and Black Dice co-founder Eric Copeland. Coming in as the second release on new label Palmetto Arts, following Jesus Freak...
View ArticleEric Copeland – Black Bubblegum (2016)
Following releases for labels like Underwater Peoples and L.I.E.S. that found Eric Copeland simultaneously adding more pop elements to his sound as well as maximizing the weirdness, the Black Dice...
View ArticleOrphx – Pitch Black Mirror (2016)
Almost a quarter-century into their career, you might expect the southern Ontario-based industrial techno duo Orphx to be sounding a bit tired. Not so. Pitch Black Mirror, their first album since...
View ArticleRicky Eat Acid – Talk to You Soon (2016)
Prolific Maryland-based musician Sam Ray is well regarded in certain indie rock circles for his bands Teen Suicide and Julia Brown, but his most celebrated venture might be his electronic solo project...
View ArticleSendai – Ground and Figure (2016)
Sendai is the collaborative project of producers Yves de Mey and Peter Van Hoesen, and Ground and Figure is promising to encompass while at the same time retaining the static (in the aural sense)...
View ArticleUgasanie – Border of Worlds (2016)
Ugasanie is back with a new album, Border of Worlds, focused on the people of the Tundra and the North. Written, performed and produced by Pavel Malyshkin, this album puts the shaman in the centre, the...
View ArticleMoor Mother – Fetish Bones (2016)
The science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany wrote that the raison d’être of the genre was not about creating an imagined future, but to consider a world in which art can provide “a significant...
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