Damien Dubrovnik – Great Many Arrows (2017)
Damien Dubrovnik shows are gnarly. In between black metal screams, Loke Rahbek might swallow a contact mic while retching and gagging, or dunk his head into a bucket of water. His partner Christian...
View ArticleThe Green Kingdom – The North Wind and the Sun (2017)
Michael Cottone is the very model of consistency; certainly none of the many releases he’s issued under The Green Kingdom alias over the years has been a let-down, and The North Wind and the Sun sounds...
View ArticleThe Green Kingdom – Harbor (2016)
2016 marks 10 years from the time the world was first introduced to the music of The Green Kingdom (aka Michael Cottone). And 10 years on, Cottone’s had plenty of time to find different ways to explore...
View ArticleEarl Grey – Headwinds (2017)
It’s fitting that Earl Grey‘s Headwinds should appear on Inperspective Records, a label that for two decades has been pushing the boundaries of experimental drum’n’bass and jungle, as the...
View ArticleBen Frost – Threshold of Faith EP (2017)
After his stunning 2015 LP, A U R O R A, and last year’s psychological-horror opera The Wasp Factory, electro-noise maestro Ben Frost is back, in violent-sounding collaboration with the legendary Steve...
View ArticleSote – Sacred Horror in Design (2017)
Ata Ebtekar’s biography complicates the narratives the West likes to tell itself about ideas of freedom, progress, and the relationships between center and margins, modernity and tradition. Born in...
View ArticleCome On Live Long – In the Still (2017)
In The Still is an album built from a clear sense of space and depth. A quietly ambitious record, Come On Live Long’s sophomore outing is cast across a great widescreen production, populated by...
View ArticleBooka Shade – Galvany Street (2017)
Booka Shade released their sixth studio album Galvany Street, incorporating elements of their synth-pop roots from the early 90’s, collaborating extensively with former Archive singer Craig Walker;...
View ArticleThe Beacon Sound Choir – Sunday Morning Drones EP (2016)
…The Beacon Sound Choir represents some kind of extended list of Peter Broderick family collaborators and friends. The choir was formed in early 2015, after Peter Broderick sent an email out to all his...
View ArticleThe Beacon Sound Choir – Sunday Songs (2017)
If you had gone wandering along North Mississippi Avenue in Portland, Oregon, on a Sunday morning a couple of years ago, as you strolled past Taquería Por Que No on your way up to Mississippi Records,...
View ArticleNídia – Nídia é Má, Nídia é Fudida (2017)
Six years since the Lisbon label was born, describing the music on Prìncipe remains a tricky task. Numerous genre descriptors swirl around its strange and vivid records — “kuduro, batida, kizomba,...
View ArticlePaul Haslinger – Halt and Catch Fire [Original Television Series Soundtrack]...
Veteran soundtrack composer and former Tangerine Dream member Paul Haslinger wrote the incidental music for Halt and Catch Fire, an acclaimed drama series about the boom of personal computers during...
View ArticleDean Hurley – Anthology Resource Vol. 1: △△ (2017)
Although Twin Peaks: The Return has hosted an array of Roadhouse performers and spotlighted music throughout its new season, a large part of the show’s sonic identity has been defined by the space...
View ArticleBiosphere – Substrata [Expanded Reissue) (2017)
This expanded reissue comes as a two CD set: CD1 is a remastered version of “Substrata”; CD2 contains Biosphere’s soundtrack to the Russian silent movie “Man with a Movie Camera” (1929), two bonus...
View ArticleSlackk – A Little Light (2017)
Grime is an increasingly loose description of Slackk‘s sound. From the roughneck rhythms and icy sonics of early EPs like Raw Missions, Paul Lynch’s music has grown more plush. His tracks, which share...
View ArticleMike Majkowski – Days and Other Days (2017)
Double bassist and composer Mike Majkowski relishes the very-much blurred line between modern composition and electronic atmospherics. On the Days and Other Days LP, his second collection for Austin,...
View ArticleBlondes – Warmth (2017)
On Swisher, the captivating 2013 LP from Blondes, the Brooklyn duo managed to capture the tactile sentiment of their fabled live performances on wax. On Warmth, their aptly titled third release,...
View ArticleRed Axes – The Beach Goths (2017)
If you only know Dori Sadovnik and Niv Arzi’s music from their singles, you’d be forgiven for thinking of Red Axes as a house act. The Tel Aviv duo make an eccentric version of that sound, prone to...
View ArticleNadia Sirota – Tessellatum (2017)
Wunderkind-violinist Nadia Sirota is a member of yMusic and Alarm Will Sound — a chamber sextet and orchestra, respectively — but you may also recognize her from performances with Sigur Rós’ Jónsi and...
View ArticleGalactic Explorers – Epitaph for Venus (1973, Remastered 2017)
24-bit domain remaster from the original tapes. Another shrouded in mystery album from the Pyramid label, produced by Toby Robinson in Cologne circa 1974. Kosmische and Head sounds with plenty of...
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