Perera Elsewhere – All of This (2017)
Sasha Perera is back with a brand new Perera Elsewhere album, which capitalises on her discovery of and newfound love for synthesisers, in the building of a sound platform that shows an evolution from...
View ArticleTALsounds – Love Sick (2017)
Natalie Chami’s project TALsounds documents solo sessions of improvised synthesis and live-looped vocal performances, presented to the listener as discrete takes without overdubs. The decisions she...
View ArticleTALsounds – Lifter + Lighter (2016)
Chicago-based experimental musician Natalie Chami performs as one-third of Good Willsmith, who have released over half a dozen albums since 2012, but her solo project TALsounds has been equally...
View ArticleSession Victim – Listen to Your Heart (2017)
One of the best things about sleeping, aside from preserving one’s mental and physical well-being, is dreaming. But here’s the thing about dreams: even the most exquisite ones soon recede into the...
View ArticleSufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly, Bryce Dessner – Planetarium (2017)
Planetarium is an album co-composed by four musicians: Bryce Dessner of the American indie rock band The National, drummer James McAlister, American contemporary classical music composer and arranger...
View ArticleArto Lindsay – Cuidado Madame [Japanese Edition] (2017)
Arto Lindsay is the least known romantic to ever pick up a guitar, in part because he has never learned to play it. Since yowling his way through the seminal no wave outfit DNA, Lindsay has united his...
View ArticleKonrad Sprenger – Stack Music (2017)
Having felt restrained by the limits of traditional instruments and the techniques tied to them, composer, music producer, and artist Konrad Sprenger (b. Joerg Hiller), spent years developing various...
View ArticleArve Henriksen – Towards Language (2017)
A veteran of the mysterious avant garde Norwegian improvisational outfit Supersilent, Arve Henriksen is a trumpeter who rarely sounds as if he’s playing the trumpet. Instead, his instrument is muted...
View ArticleRoll the Dice – Born to Ruin (2017)
Peder Mannerfelt and soundtrack composer Malcolm Pardon reprise their acclaimed cinematic duo, Roll the Dice for a 4th album of moving, widescreen electro-acoustic sound design, ambient and rhythmic...
View ArticleVA – Outro Tempo: Electronic and Contemporary Music from Brazil 1978-1992 (2017)
In 1985, Brazil’s repressive junta finally allowed for direct elections for a president for the first time since their military coup of 1964. For artists and musicians of all stripes, the censorship...
View ArticleOrson Hentschel – Electric Stutter (2017)
Almost one year after his debut LP Feed the Tape, Orson Hentschel enters new musical terrain wearing old shoes. His second LP Electric Stutter, which is almost 55 minutes long, is only loosely...
View ArticleHarvey Sutherland and Bermuda – Expectations (2017)
Harvey Sutherland is a studio producer and disco minimalist from Melbourne. He has worked steadily since 2013, releasing a handful of coveted records for People’s Potential Unlimited, MCDE, and Voyage...
View ArticleChihei Hatakeyama – Mirage (2017)
“Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The relation of sound and architecture has been a recurring theme across the centuries. The earliest examples...
View ArticleBuz Ludzha – Jungle Tapes (2016)
Irish producer Andrew Morrison (who records under the names Buz Ludzha and the Cyclist) has become one of tape music’s most inventive aficionados. Over the last few years, he’s embraced an aesthetic...
View ArticleDave Depper – Emotional Freedom Technique (2017)
It’s likely that you don’t recognize the name Dave Depper — or, at least, that you hadn’t until his addition to Death Cab for Cutie’s live band, following Chris Walla’s departure, which has since led...
View ArticleLutto Lento – Dark Secret World (2017)
Warsaw-based producer Lubomir Grzelak aka Lutto Lento, has been causing a stir with an unconventional take on dance music that’s often loaded with samples and field recordings, reflecting a longtime...
View ArticleMurcof x Vanessa Wagner – EP02 (2017)
EP02 offers up three new interpretations of Philip Glass, Morton Feldman and Arvo Pärt pieces, where analogue explorations and bare piano notes meet the open forms of the minimalist canon. This is the...
View ArticleHeinali – Anthem (2017)
Oleg Shpudeiko’s a clever little sod. Hailing from the Ukrainian captial Kiev, the self-taught composer and sound designer, who works under the alias Heinali isn’t content with just recording and...
View ArticleMux Mool – Implied Lines (2017)
After a few releases with Ghostly International, followed by a handful of EPs and singles, Mux Mool released the full-length Implied Lines independently in 2016. Fast track a year, and Implied Lines is...
View ArticleZola Blood – Infinite Games (2017)
Taking its title from a James P Carse book, Zola Blood’s first album, Infinite Games, is a sleek and sophisticated step up from their 2014 EP, Meridian. Like its literary namesake, the album explores...
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