Flowers for Bodysnatchers – Aokigahara (2015)
On paper, Aokigahara would appear to promise a particularly depressing listening experience: after all, the title refers to a 35-square-kilometre forest situated at the northwest base of Mount Fuji in...
View ArticleVan Kaye + Ignit – A Slight Delay (1981, Remastered 2015)
Van Kaye + Ignit is the Dutch duo of Ed Van Kasteren (Van Kaye) and Ignatine Bekken (Ignit), who joined forces in the city of Arnhem during early 1980. While at university, Van Kaye was the singer of...
View ArticleSmersh – Super Heavy Solid Waste (2015)
Smersh were a New Jersey-based duo whose myriad self-issued cassettes throughout the ’80s and early ’90s anticipated much of the industrial dance music that would follow, but the group existed solely...
View ArticleAlphaxone – Absence of Motion (2015)
Cryo Chamber certainly lives up to the ‘Cinematic Dark Ambient Label’ text adorning its Bandcamp page, but Absence of Motion serves as a reminder that the Oregon-based imprint’s products are also...
View ArticleA Guide for Reason – XIII – XIV (2015)
Mike Fazio issues material so infrequently on his Faith Strange label that when a new release does appear it feels all the more special. The first installment of his A Guide for Reason project, I – VI,...
View ArticleMecanica Popular –¿Qué Sucede Con El Tiempo? (1984, Reissue 2015)
Behold, a cultishly coveted slab of freeform new wave dance/tape music from 1984 Madrid, Spain, re-released by Andy Votel, Sean Canty and Doug Shipton’s Dead Cert label. Notable not only for including...
View ArticleNoel Meek – Living in the Time of the Golden Circle (2015)
Noel Meek is the musician and co-owner of End of the Alphabet Records, the New Zealand based label specialising in sound art and experimental music that he runs with his partner, artist Olivia Webb....
View ArticleGeoff Krozier & The Generator – Tranceformer (1981, Reissue 2015)
Imagine a coven of Jodorowsky, Daevid Allen, Mr. Crowley, Rameses and Arthur Brownthen combine them into a one-man mutant magician and add the finest Australian synth duo since Cybotron. Behold Geoff...
View ArticleHorseback – Dead Ringers (2016)
Jenks Miller’s experimental Horseback project has been the aural expression of his many musical passions. He’s traveled the spaceways, both inner and outer, with post-psych drone, doom, a distinctly...
View ArticleKatie Dey – Flood Network (2016)
Australian singer/songwriter Katie Dey‘s singular brand of fragmentary home-recorded pop is fragile, strange, and sometimes frightening. Taking full advantage of the recording and editing capabilities...
View ArticleBlack Tape for a Blue Girl – These Fleeting Moments + Limitless EP (2016)
On their 30th anniversary, Black Tape for a Blue Girl returns to their evocative ethereal, neoclassical, gothic roots with an album exploring the existential predicaments of time’s passage, choices...
View ArticleHarmonia – Deluxe (1975, Remastered 2015)
A touch more immediate and song-oriented than its predecessor, but no less enchanting and lovely to hear, De Luxe again features the trio experimenting with a variety of approaches, most particularly...
View ArticleMarconi Union – Ghost Stations (2016)
The Manchester trio Marconi Union released their debut, Under Wires and Searchlights, back in 2003, and Ghost Stations is their ninth album (including Anomic, 2013’s collaboration with Jah Wobble)....
View ArticleInnercity – ABABABABABABAS (Blue Lion Child) (2015)
Masked Belgian experimental artist Hans Dens’ project Innercity has released a deluge of dark, unsettling recordings that channel the cosmic experimentation of Popol Vuh into something surreal,...
View ArticleLafawndah – Tan EP (2016)
Born in Paris with Egyptian and Iranian roots, Lafawndah has lived in Mexico, New York and Tehran, and recorded her first EP on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. Unsurprisingly, her music treats pop...
View ArticleJonathan Fitoussi & Clemens Hourriere – Five Steps (2015)
Five Steps, recorded during a week-long residency at EMS Stockholm and released via Versatile Records, is the fruit of a recent collaboration between Jonathan Fitoussi and Clemens Hourrière. They only...
View ArticleMelodium – Luminol (2016)
Melodium is Laurent Girard, a French electronic, pop, ambient music composer who lives in Angers. Luminol is rather different from usual Melodium’s work that is more pop, electronica oriented. It’s a...
View ArticleThe Album Leaf – Between Waves (2016)
Six years removed from the project’s last proper full-length A Chorus of Storytellers, Jimmy LaValle’s long-running The Album Leaf release new record. Eight tracks in the length, Between Waves is the...
View ArticleMark Harris – in the forests_the animals are moving (2015)
It’s one thing to organize sound materials into a satisfying five- to ten-minute composition; doing so effectively for the full measure of a 47-minute piece is something else altogether. Obviously it’s...
View ArticleCoil – Threshold Archives (2015)
Coil’s discography has fallen into neglect somewhat over the years as more and more releases have gone out of print. That was intended to change with the Threshold Archives (named after Coil’s label...
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