As the four song EP Openness is Dreaminess & Everything in Between’s title would suggest Keith Canisius always had affinity for the psychedelics of the early 90’s shoegaze crowd. While pulling equally from the hushed vocal complexity of the Cocteau Twins and the divebomb guitars of Ride, it was clear that Canisius was crushing hard on the Madchester nouveau-hippie scene …
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The nineties would have sounded much different if My Bloody Valentine were given their proper comeuppance in 1991. If teenagers started putting Kevin Shields posters up in their room, sitting stoned and alone in their parent’s basements piling layers and layers of manipulated guitar noise on top of each other until they seeped up through the floor boards of …
Comprised of double-bassist Max Luthert and saxophonist Duncan Eagles, Million Square create swirling, hyper-complex compositions that pull inspiration from Coletrane as much as they do from Autechre. The glitch-heavy / post-IDM electronics and instrumentation are processed in such a way that the digital and acoustic worlds fold in on themselves in such a way to …
Set against Pascal Schumacher’s luscious vibraphone tones, “Sol” creates a vision for Schumacher’s composition that centers on catharsis and violence under a vibrant amber glow. Through the dancer’s embodiment of coming out of the darkness into a blinding, but gentle light. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_z3Xvccm5s
In this interview with Daniel Klag we explore 70’s power ballads, Blonde Redhead as a gateway drug and NYC during the corona virus. This is the first of many interviews in this time of social distancing and troubling times for artists and musicians. You can check out Daniel’s discography here. Patreon subscribers receive a bonus …
God created space and the cosmos. Then the sun and moon, and the Earth too. On the Earth, he put oceans and mountains and plants and animals. Then on the Earth, he also flung a couple of people in a Garden and told them what not to do. Those two people screwed up. And then …
The 60-something(?)-year-old Keijo comes from Finland. I guess I didn’t realize Finland’s road—that long and traveled one, over all those spots rough and smooth—looked so much like the one we know and love. Like the same road the early bluesmen walked down. Dry and dusty or wet and swampy. It’s hot out there. Sweltering. Keijo …
When I got into Krautrock in high school, I swear my folks were going to kill me. Car rides to school, dinner music, homework, chores… whatever I was doing, I was down with that motorik 8th-note bass drum beat. “Too repetitive” they’d say. They were right, I guess. You can see the argument… a lot …
Levek’s 7″, recently released on the excellent Father/Daughter Records, is solid. Solid, like musically astute solid. But more “solid” in the way Curtis Mayfield says it, or solid like I imagine Daryl from the Office says it. “Solid” surpasses any need for adjectives, it is a nod, a wink, a reassuring acknowledgment that the groove is tight. Levek is that kind of …
Bikini is “Sallinger on MDMA” according to their press sheet. Statements like this have the tendency to run amuck on the interwebs, eliciting a cross-armed “hrrumph” from those either on MDMA or on Sallinger. It is clear, however, that the cross-continental duo composed of Nigel Diamond and Oliver Bonnard are on both. Bonnard’s prep-school background and hyper-modernist lines trade barbs with Diamond’s blunted, four on the …