Clik here to view.
Marc Barreca – Aberrant Lens (2017)
Interestingly, the press text accompanying Aberrant Lens makes mention of subtle Cluster and Fripp & Eno homages that Marc Barreca has woven into the twelve settings on his seventh solo album for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Lapalux – The End of Industry EP (2017)
Not four months after releasing his third full-length, Ruinism, Lapalux (aka Stuart Howard) has forgone rest and has returned with a new EP, The End of Industry. The London producer is continuing along...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Fatima Al Qadiri – Shaneera EP (2017)
“Shaneera” is a mispronunciation of shanee’a, or شنيعة – an Arabic word synonymous with “outrageous,” “nefarious,” “hideous,” and “foul”. In certain Arab countries, the term has been adopted as queer...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Special Request – Belief System (2017)
Paul Woolford found prominence in 2013 under the alias Special Request with his critically acclaimed by criminally underheard debut LP, Soul Music. Peddling a brand of sleek electronic music that draws...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hannah Peel – Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia (2017)
If we lived in an alternative reality as good as the ones dreamed up by Hannah Peel, the Northern Irish artist would fast be approaching national treasure status such is the scope and originality of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Nicola Ratti – The Collection (2017)
It’s no easy task to take on capitalism with a legion of minds and resources, let alone a drum machine. But that’s Nicola Ratti’s main tool, and he’s up for the job. Well, the Milanese musician uses...
View ArticleClik here to view.
kj – Spells (2017)
With deceptively unassuming, methodical precision, kj conjures delicate, beautifully hazy ambient soundscapes awash in memorable minutiae for his sophomore album, Spells. It takes an instinctive...
View ArticleClik here to view.
NHK yx Koyxen – Exit Entrance (2017)
Kohei Matsunaga has produced an impossibly large amount of music since the early ’90s, ranging from minimalist experiments to noise to severely damaged hip-hop and techno. He often works in various...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gandalf – Journey to an Imaginary Land [Remastered Edition] (2017)
Esoteric Recordings released newly re-mastered edition of Journey to an Imaginary Land, debut album by Austrian composer/multi-instrumentalist Gandalf (the pseudonym of Hans Strobl). A true visionary,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Nick Nicely – Sleep Safari (2017)
As its title suggests, Sleep Safari is an exploration of the workings of the unconscious mind. Considering how his mix of psychedelia and electronic pop automatically evokes altered states of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sébastien Tellier – A Girl Is a Gun: Music from the Original Series (2017)
Sebastien Tellier & Mathieu Tonetti have a long story together. They befriended in their teenage years, spent loads of time together watching films like “Starship Troopers”, listening to music and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Astrïd & Rachel Grimes – Through the Sparkle (2017)
This collaboration between France’s Astrïd and American Rachel Grimes was a long time coming. After years of correspondence, Grimes was able to schedule an extended trip to Astrïd’s home base in Nantes...
View ArticleClik here to view.
James Murray – Heavenly Waters (2017)
With a slew of releases on his own Slowcraft label as well as Home Normal, Ultimae and Voxxov, and having already released two albums in 2017, London based ambient/downtempo artist James Murray brings...
View ArticleClik here to view.
James Murray – Floods Returned (2017)
There are at least two ways of listening to James Murray‘s latest release: you can either do a track-by-track comparison between those on Floods Returned and their counterparts on the earlier albums;...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Malcolm Neon – 1980-1985 (2017)
V-O-D knocks us sideways with their first Welsh-language collection courtesy of Cardiganshire’s Malcolm Neon, who set-up and ran the very first DIY underground tape label in Wales, Casetiau Neon,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
FOUDRE! – EARTH (2017)
Executing a live soundtrack is always a bit of a high- wire proposition, especially when electronics are involved. The possibility that a breakdown will occur is omnipresent, and the impact of such a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Valiska – On Pause (2017)
Put simply: Calgarian experimental composer Krzysztof Sujata’s latest release as Valiska is his best yet and one of the most singular yet humble avant-garde musical statements of 2017. On Pause expands...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Species of Fishes – Trip Trap (1996, Reissue 2017)
Unless you’re particularly knowledgeable on Moscow’s mid-’90s electronic underground, your first encounter with Species of Fishes was probably the four tracks Nina Kraviz included on her fabric mix....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement – Ambient Black Magic (2017)
Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement, the tropical-flavored dark ambient project of Prurient and Vatican Shadow mastermind Dominick Fernow, release the new album Ambient Black Magic. Out on Fernow’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
CRi – Someone Else EP (2017)
Montreal producer Christophe Dubé (known artistically as CRi) offers up a satisfying collection of atmospheric, bedroom-trance numbers on his latest EP, Someone Else, a quick followup to 2016’s Tell...
View Article