“In human history, there hasn’t been anything much bigger than the Great War. And yet, nothing could be more intimate than the trauma of a mother’s loss. And so, like the trembling of a psalmist’s fingers on the keys of a tremendous organ, Bare Wire Son’s Off Black creates an overwhelming sound from the most …
Perhaps named from the Utah ski town, Shadow Gordon’s latest track “Park City” is a gorgeous ambient composition full of swelling and surging swells of drone, ambient passages that massage granular pieces of softened noise. Coming out of a year like we’ve had, Shadow Gordon states that these collection of songs “celebrate the light at …
It’s always nice to hear new work from Julianna Barwick in whatever form it appears. Barwick’s music has been an absolute balm for me through the years. Having booked her twice – both in Cincinnati and in Columbia, MO in the beautiful Firestone-Barr chapel – I often think back to the incredible world of sound …
On the latest remix for Applied Magic, INVŌKER takes on this excellent house inflected track by Komenda. “Tunno” is full of layered, organic percussion with a throbbing bass line, essential house chords lightly applied and synth stabs that swoop in like a murmuration of birds. “Tunno” could easily slide into a variety of DJ sets …
I am not sure how many of these we will hear this year, but I hope the “I decided to make music during quarantine” output is even half as good by this debut from the Cape Town, South Africa based Adamastor. Drawing a line somewhere between acts like Jesu, Midwife with the electronic programming of …
KOI Charge The Budapest based electronic group led by Gergely Buttinger presents a texturally engaging and moving piece of electronic music that sits in the middle of a venn diagram of several electronic sub-genres. In it we hear some lovely washed out synths, intense stabbing synth arpeggios and a mind-scrambling percussive pattern that seems to …
Lotte Pen is a Netherlands based musician whose forward thinking classical music fully embraces pop and dance music to create a thrilling masala of deeply studied instrumentation and electronic composition. Weaving in deft woodwinds with Reich-ian intensity through a surging house beat and vocal samples, “Entree” is a fearless embrace of music beyond genre. Revanche …
westernmind is the solo ambient project from Jason Kollar, who’s aching and subtle music carries worlds of emotions within shifts of tonality. For his latest single, “Through Smoke, Still Home” Kollar builds on a warped piano line that stretches and evolves throughout the composition. Guitar and drums are folded in as a nod to Kollar’s …
What I wouldn’t give to be at a Period Bomb show right now. Ears fucked, beer spilled on my shirt, sweaty bodies knocking into me in rhythmless waves. A live cut from the Period Bomb / Bleeders tour takes you right back. Through it you hear one of the gnarliest post-punk bands rip through a …
Daughter of Dawn is the solo project of Twin Cities artist Emma Goldman Grey – a Trans artist whose musical output sits in the middle of a venn diagram of various influences and traditions. Fans of Jesu and Massive Attack will find a kindred spirit in the aching, nocturnal delivery of trip-hop beats with an …
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