A glorious slice of left-field pop, the hypnagogic “Daffodil” ponders the flower bulb hibernating until its early bloom. The Irish artist channels some of the woozy, inward-looking ambient pop of artists like Panda Bear, Washed Out and Here We Go Magic. Ogenblik rinses this track through hazy vocal drones, a lurching BPM and broken electronics …
There is something graceful in the way that the thirteen minutes of “col (mokki mix)” eases by. Layering subtle piano chords underneath glistening overtones and field recordings of a thunderstorm in Finland, the song never quite rises above a whisper. But submerged in its depths – accessed by really nice headphones we hear mirco-tonal shifts …
A beautiful and intimate lullaby that immerses you to the point that it sounds like you are in the room where it is being recorded. The creak of the bench, the mechanical movement of hammer hitting string – all of these underscore the beautiful melody at the center of the composition: a hushed but intense …
Gorgeous finger-picked, open tuned acoustic guitar from the Brazilian artist currently residing in Germany. “Up” recalls the airy openness of artists like Jack Rose, Daniel Bachman and Sarah Louise – tinged with just enough melancholy and weary sadness. Lead melodies are swept into flurries of ringing overtones and sweeping mechanical gestures. Beautiful work.
The Columbus, OH duo create dance music that exists in its own cinematic universe. Building from delicate piano lines that rely heavy on the mechanical precision of a house beat unleashed from the grid, “I Stay” swerves into multiple percussion lines intersecting with one another and a giant wash of synths sanded from all hard …
By completely deconstructing club music to its most elemental layers, TWIN XXA’s “Eather” is a startling and unexpectedly brilliant avant-garde electronic composition that blends synthetic copies of human voices into jagged stabs of industrial clamor. Everything falls into place in a strange internal logic that heeds its own sense of timing.
Dreamkiddo is a Future Bass artist out of Saudi Arabia. “Likethat” is a rhythmically complex, shape-shifting track that possesses multiple ear worms in the way its pitch-shifted vocals clash with bright arpeggios and multi-layered percussion. This is the first we’ve heard of Dreamkiddo, but we will definitely reserve a seat at the table for producers …
Past Present & Tortusa set out for unexplored terrain of ambient jazz storytelling on their debut single “Black Mist”. The Norwegian trio is comprised of a trumpet, upright bass and live-sampling and create an ominous soundscape of plodding bass lines, sonorous bows and sampled/manipulated trumpet laying out elegiac lines that are fed back to the …
For an artist that lists artists like Wolf Eyes and White Suns as inspirations, “Lone” is a gorgeously subdued drone track that relies on relentless overtones and microcosmic tonal shifts to indicating a massive movement floating through the aural field like a wall of fog over trees. It’s a beautiful track that revels in its …
Inspired by his grandfather’s tales of living in the Faroe Islands, the electronic artist has created a gorgeous, pastoral track full of guitar and vocal melodies and downtempo beats that are easy to burrow into. Soundtracking the frozen expanse of the Faroe Islands’ barren landscapes, Koresma layers live drumming and programmed percussion atop synth arpeggios …