Perspective changes everything. As we take this bee-eyed-view trip through a field of wildflowers, stems grow as big as trees and bulbs become sun-blocking eclipses. This new video by French filmmaker Frederic Tcheng gives is a moving and perspective-shifting visual accompaniment to DM Stith’s latest composition “Waving 3”. Stith’s breakthrough album Heavy Ghost is an …
Bracing and moving, “HELIANTH” by NTBTR is a track that comes with strong visual components to it. A bare bones percussive layer transposes a four-on-the-floor house-adjacent beat into the rudimentary feeling of movement is layered with blanket upon blanket of distortion, erosion and heavy explosive fervor. A doomed spacecraft propelled through light years of inky …
Mint Julep is the husband-wife duo of Hollie and Keith Kenniff (Helios, Goldmund) and finds the duo stepping outside of the neo-classical and ambient work of Keith’s main artistic projects and into a hazier, in some cases, noisier realm of dream pop. Punctuated with Hollie’s commanding whisper and pulsing four on the floor percussion and …
On 10Dimensions moving and, at times, aurally overwhelming track, the UK based artist pulls from “treated found sound and analogue-generated drones sewn together to create an ever-evolving palette of sound. ” These come through as fleeting melodies, stabs of discernable voice and fluctuating sound bed that recalls some of the more subtle and noisier works …
Layered atop a thick ambient pad that resembles fog enveloping a coastline, the multi-instrumentalist Six Missing is adept at folding in additional instrumentation that builds the track from the ground up. Dedicated to his grandmother, Six Missing folds in expressionistic layers of piano and guitar, letting his fingers run over the fretboard in a fits …
Cedrick Knox features members of Squid, Pelican Man and the Youtube / Tik Tok drumming sensation “Spack in the Box”. On their absolutely demented and thrilling post-everything cover of “Autumn Leaves” the group pursues a totally deconstructed take on the jazz standard by incorporating mathy looped and triggered guitar lines, electronic samples of ghostly samples …
“Prelude” by Eulogy Eulogy does exactly what it purports to do. As an introduction, the “Indie Orchestra” led by Devon Savas presents many of the motifs that will be later explored in their absolutely crushing debut EP “To Be True”. More than 19 artists from across Canada contribute to the project casting horns, percussion, guitar …
It’s a bit difficult to describe why I love this track and video from Kristinn Kristinsson so much. Camcorder footage that eventually becomes more and more abstracted and far from the source while the track itself begins to crystalize around a single drone as layers and layers of saturation and distortion begin peeling off. It’s …
A moving and beautiful piece of ambient inflected post-rock, the Copenhagen based A Reason to Travel offers a peak into the band at their most serene. Moving guitar through a blinking rack of pedals meet a pulsing rhythmic base that scatters like broken sunshine through the leaves of an afternoon breeze. If you need a …
A highly emotional and moving piece of neo-classical / ambient music from these two Hong Kong based music is a salve for fractured nerves. A close enough analog to actually walking along the harbor at night, this tiny headphone commute lets you travel thousands of miles without leaving your cozy home office. Lovely stuff from …
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