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The Sight Below – Glider 10 + Reworks (2018)
There’s a beating heart buried in the cold landscape of Glider. A warm and steady pulse invigorates each drone resonating overhead, pulling the listener swiftly through the snowy textures below. By...
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bod – The Recurrence of Infections (2018)
Having replaced the onslaught of sharp edges that made up Limpid Fear with more dulcet tones and vocals, Nicholas Zhu has delivered a bod recording that can fairly be described as approachable. Perhaps...
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Booker Stardrum – Temporary etc. (2018)
It might seem counterintuitive for a drummer to embrace electronic music. After all, some say drum machines have no soul, while others still insist that groove boxes will put drummers out of business,...
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Maya Jane Coles – Waves & Whirlwinds EP (2018)
Waves & Whirlwinds is a brief, EP-length follow-up to Maya Jane Coles’ expansive double-album Take Flight, offering a similar blend of tech-house rhythms and pop instincts. Coles excels at...
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Jarboe – The Cut of the Warrior (2018)
Jarboe is a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who made her name most infamously in the experimental, drone, art-rock, and no wave outfit Swans. With the band since its inception in 1985,...
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Richard Devine – Sort\Lave (2018)
A friend once described Richard Devine‘s music as being in an “arms race” with like-minded artists such as Autechre or Venetian Snares — an imaginary competition for who could make the most hi-tech and...
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Jacuzzi General – Dreams of the Tropics EP (2018)
On ‘Pool Shark’, the lead single from his debut EP Dreams of the Tropics, Jacuzzi General threads together a looping Iranian guitar riff with jack- hammer synth pulses and a short, repeated spoken word...
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Chris Carter – Miscellany (2018)
Apart from his work in Throbbing Gristle, Chris & Cosey, and related projects, Chris Carter has occasionally released solo material, ranging from melodic synth explorations to pulsating ambient...
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Northerner – End of the Holiday (2018)
The title selection of Martin Cummings’ latest Northerner release was presumably influenced by his recent stay in the Catalan areas of Spain; track titles such as “Dijous” and “Una Nocio” certainly...
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Russell E.L. Butler – The Home I’d Build for Myself and All My Friends (2018)
2 years ago, Russell E.L. Butler watched as a party at the Ghost Ship warehouse in Oakland burned down. Inside, 36 ravers lost their lives, many of whom were the artist’s friends. The tragedy caused...
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Sverre Knut Johansen – The Vast Expanse (2018)
Above all else, two feelings are invoked by The Vast Expanse, Sverre Knut Johansen‘s 3rd release on the Spotted Peccary Music label: awe and wonder. And that’s as it should be, considering that the...
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Anne Garner – Lost Play (2018)
Anticipation has steadily grown in these parts for the follow-up to Anne Garner‘s mesmerizing 2015 release Be Life, and with Lost Play it’s finally here. Many of the qualities that made the earlier...
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Nicklas Sørensen – Solo 2 (2018)
The album and track titles of Nicklas Sørensen‘s second solo effort might be rather prosaic, colourless even, but the six tracks are anything but. On this splendid set, Papir‘s guitarist serves up...
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Stano – Content to Write in I Dine Weathercraft (1983, Reissue 2018)
Dublin’s All City has been doing a fine job of late in recovering and reissuing widely forgotten treasures from the Irish undergrowth, reinstating their significance to the country’s musical canon in...
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51717 – Paranoia Star (2018)
Lili Schulder’s music has often lingered under a nocturnal shroud. Like several of her L.I.E.S. label mates, the New York artist’s solo and collaborative releases have been wave- and industrial-fuelled...
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Maria w Horn – Kontrapoetik (2018)
On Kontrapoetik, composer Maria W Horn explores the deceivingly serene yet turmoiled past of her home region, Ångermanland, in the north of Sweden. The region was the site of Sweden’s largest...
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Steve Roach – Mercurius (2018)
Mercurius is a resplendent sonic expression on the psychology and spirituality of impermanence and finding comfort in the liminal spaces of the in-between. Moving beyond the security of naming the...
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Robert Scott Thompson – Phonotopological (2018)
According to electronic sound alchemist Robert Scott Thompson, Phonotopological technically qualifies as an acousmatic work because the acoustic elements used as a starting point are often obscured by...
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Dead Melodies – Primal Destination (2019)
Dead Melodies presents us a dark cinematic space album with Primal Destination. The dying star shone weak in the ancient system. Desperate bursts of green-tinged solar flares scattered towards the...
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Bruce Haack – Preservation Tapes (2018)
In 2016, after reissuing two Bruce Haack albums, Haackula and Electric Lucifer Book II, Telephone Explosion began speaking with Ted Pandel (Bruce’s lifelong friend and business partner) about working...
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