The lead single off of the recently released CD Reflections on a Dying Man out on our friends Doom Trip Records, the heavy cinematic quality and crescendoing intensity of “2nd Floor Studio” feels like it racing to some final conclusion. Recorded after finding out that his father had 6 months to live, Diamondstein returned to …
We’ve been told that when we die our lives flash before our eyes. The way that its been sold to us is that the narrative unspools in linear fashion – allowing us to follow its trajectory from birth to untimely four wheeler accident or Black Friday trampling. The more we are learning about the brain, …
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“Sky High” is the distillation of ecstatic joy. Led by Jane Bunnett, a long time proponent of Cuban Jazz, Jane Bunnett and The Maqueque have quickly made a name for themselves in combining afrojazz and Jazz fusion in an accessible and virtuosic blend. The sextet are able to come together with expert precision and allow …
I feel a vicarious sense of option paralysis when I look over the intense amount of synthesizers and instruments laid out before the Los Angeles based duo in the video for “Uneven Ground”. With infinite means and ability to tweak the output of sound in front of you, where do you start? “Uneven Ground” finds …
The Swedish saxophonist has created a massive composition centered on a series of forlorn lines that break through a cacophony of percussion and piano like streaks of light through a heavy cloud cover. These lines, originally unadorned, are joined and doubled until they become earth-quaking statements of purpose. As the song swells quick-run arpeggios are …
Jude Woodhead’s new single is a lot of things. On its face, it’s a reaching, longing dance track that sublimates modern dance music into subtle lo-fi bedroom flourishes. Jude weaves in an ever-evolving bass line, a house locked-in house beat, sunken vocals, arpeggios that come in from various places within the audio field with gentle …
There is a patient sway that Jim Perkin’s “Held” falls under. A movement flowing from four clarinet lines overlapping atop each other – overtones clashing in melodious and dynamic waves of tension and release. These lines are then re-amped through tape delay, even further sanding down the edges and bringing out the inherent melody in …
The Stargazer Lilies are one of the best heavier shoegaze bands to come out of the past few years. Their heavy-as-a-feather guitar work hits like a punch in the gut – especially when experienced live under the influence of heavy amplifiers. For their new album, resident studio madman TOBACCO helmed the production – thickening and …
As the summer refuses to let go and fold into fall, this golden hue of humid days and foggy mornings seems to stretch into eternity. As if predicting this summer-extension the London-based producer has dropped a nostalgic, startlingly melancholy track right when the seasons are supposed to be turning. Ohmfield’s reminiscence of Zurich during the …