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Month: September 2019
LEXICA – “FAINT HUE”
Rising out of the famed Prentis Hall incubator of forward thinking electronic music in the 90’s and the dream pop band Closer that formed out of that scene, Lexica is hearkens back to a time when IDM blurred a lot of the lines between trip-hop, shoegaze and musicians blending organic instrumentation with skittering, programmed beats. …
FIME – “JERK PRACTICE”
Marrying the downcast tunefulness of bands like Yo La Tengo and 13 Rods with moments of thrilling shoegaze sheen, Fime’s “Jerk Practice” is a soft focus, low-budget/high-concept tracking shot through manufactured landscapes and Fime’s floating, disembodied heads. The lush atmospherics and longing in Maxine Garcia’s voice – while still steering commanding leads – is a …
ANDREA RONEN – “FLIGHT”
Built around a singular upward ascension, Andrea Ronen’s “Flight” is an arpeggio that is run through several patches and filters until it is light years away from its source. The Italian synth artist’s worldview is situated somewhere between the euphoria of dance music and the studied minimalism of Caterina Barbieri. “Flight” flows from those intersecting …
GANSER – “BUIO”
The concept of “guilty pleasures” is such a bummer. The propriety of acting shy and demure instead of claiming space while in new situations is also a bummer. The concept of enjoying something – even to excess – is “being baaaad” – also a huge fucking bummer. Ganser’s newest video, set against a pulsing, quivering …
BATHE – “THE SILENCE”
Writing songs encouraging listeners to “lay on the floor and stare at the ceiling” should really be seen as much as a public service as it is a genre identifier. Written in a response to finding moments of mindful respite from loss and rising panic when our brain can’t figure out what it wants to …
GOLD DIME – “MY HOUSE”
Andrya Ambro’s new project, Gold Dime, is an intense and off-kilter muscular workout of kraut grooves, start-stop noise rock and call-and-response vocals embedded in No Wave shrapnel. Ambro’s drumming stands out particularly strong in “My House” creating a frantic foil to the surreal imagery of Ambryo being drug through the forest, framed in mortal panic. …
DANIEL SOHN – “DREAMBOAT
An ethereal chamber-pop earworm, “Dreamboat” pulls melodies from a delicate guitar and heavily augmented auto-tuned vocals. An expertly produced woozy, disorienting production finds Sohn’s voice filling all available space from keyed up vocal lines that interpose as melodic fragments, to choral phrasings that introduce a strong melodic hook. The deliberate ornateness of this track (albeit …
TOUBOURA – “A 5TH ELEMENT
Waking up to headlines about a seemingly irreversible and ever-increasing march towards planetary collapse, watching the Greek experimental artist Touboura’s latest video is a momentary reminder of a earth illuminated with magick. Filmed at a visual installation on the island of Samothrace in North Greece, Touboura meditates on a 5th, connective element stitching the physical …
AMPARO – “TOSKA”
How does the Arizona desert sound in memory and filtered through the wooded expanses of Sweden? Amparo’s new EP “Dark Sky City” poses those questions as a move from Tuscon to Gothenburg transposes the desert’s stoic architecture across distance and time. Amparo’s deft acoustic guitar work still rings with Sun Belt twang while melancholy slide-guitar …