UK duo Private Agenda have quickly become one of my go-to artists for pure bliss-out transcendence. One part Komische zone riding, one part Air style posh beats, this Balearic rising remix of “Melanai Ascending” by the almighty Seahawks, is pure satisfaction. A surging bass line never quite lets it’s grip up on as slight hand …
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We have two tracks from the excellent Los Angeles based post-rock / neo-classical artist The Paper Sea with “Sleepers In(n) and “The Center Shall Hold”. With “The Sleepers In(n)” we hear the deft interplay between slide guitar and a minimal piano line finding purchase in the negative spaces produced by the sparse but strongly felt …
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Located just next Coney Island in Brooklyn, Brighton Beach is the setting / reflection point for Andrew Cosentino’s latest entry into the expansive catalog of artists using American Primitivist guitar picking as a jumping off point to explore airy territory somewhere between ambient music and folk. Cosentino joins artists like Lake Mary, Padang Food Tigers …
Lövgren presents a deep and immersive look into his understated electronic music through the eyes of remixer Øyvind Mathisen with the Donnie Darko referencing “Sometimes I Doubt Your Commitment to Sparkle Motion”. The track is full of submerged drones, field recordings, disembodied vocals and skittering percussive elements and pads that emerge and recede into the …
Hailing from Atlanta, GA the duo known as Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel have a moniker that could be a very literal interpretation of what their music sounds like, instead the two use their instruments to bend, bow and heave themselves into heavy, gravity-producing drone that sucks in all available sound from around it. …
The lead single from Lore City’s upcoming fourth LP Participation Mystique was released a few days ago. The Portland based band continues their march into deeply connected art rock with percussion that sounds as if it were reverberating in a deep cave below the forest floor. The creative collaboration between Laura Mariposa Williams and Eric …
An absolutely riveting collaboration between a percussive synth pattern and the mournful billow of a steel guitar, “Lokus” builds in general intensity while keeping a peaceful, ambient core. I am a big fan of artists who can harness the timbre-rich center of the steel guitar into soothing, ambient music. Denmark based artist Mikael Tobias is …
A soft track filled with patient unfolding melodies that twist into spontaneous and beautiful shapes, “Yellowstone” from Ishmael Cormack has an immediate slowing of the blood. Backwards flowing melodies float atop some truly full and rich ambient pads while found sounds are processed into new lives. As Cormack puts it, “This work continues my obsessions …
Airy, wordless vocals, jagged breakbeats, acid-tinged arpeggios and a truly gorgeous outro that offers a safe comedown from the laser-pong beat-fucked trip that just happened. Pixelord’s “NFT Acid” has all of that in spades along as it hurdles through genres and influences creating a wholly new nexus of history and music-as-commodity. Brilliant work.
As the only non-piano track off of Swiss composer Matthias Gusset’s album Inbetween Birdsongs, “Farewell” is an organ-led track that layers pitched up organ lines atop a lovely droning base. The composition soars forward leaving long, sustained drones to slowly die like embers on a fire. Packing an emotional punch in a short running time, …