Broken beats, data-fucked drones of reverb eating its own tail, “Minus Misadventures in the Baltic Waves” is a kaleidoscopic experimental journey into process driven experimental electronic music inspired by cyberpunk, science fiction film soundtracks, the sound of computer glitches and the absolute state of 2020 so far. Perhaps an absolutely bonkers offering of this kind …
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Catharina Jaunviksna is a Swedish musician, composer, sound designer and keyboardist in the Radio Dept. On “Hearts” with vocalist J. Cowhie, Jaunviksna hits on every audio pleasure center with this majestic and melancholy composition “Hearts”. Following the passing of her mother, Jaunviksna wrote this album as a conscious act of letting go of someone. “Hearts” …
It’s really heartening to hear new work from the legendary Kill Rock Stars label. Shaylee’s “Audrey” recounts the tragic story of a young trans woman who took her own life in Shaylee’s community. Shaylee reflects on the uncanny similarities between the two – both trans women and multi-instrumentalists – “Audrey” reflects on a missed connection …
Everything Emily A. Sprague has put out under their own name is extremely intimate. Intimate in the sense that through all of the glistening synth tones, the microtonal flourishes, gates switching on and off, we are hearing a human brain making decisions, reacting to sounds and purposefully making something beautiful – all (while I imagine) …
In this reworking by Hugar of Robot Koch’s brilliant track “Stars as Eyes” from his album The Next Billion Years, the Icelandic duo Hugar take the track into contemplative and resonant new directions. Relying on deep and melancholic string arrangements, stately piano compositions and drones that sweep across the audio field like a steady wind, …
“Viscosity” by Berlin based Samuel Leipold is a track that is best listened to at extreme volume with surround sound speakers. If you do so you will hear fragmentary melodies and melodics running throughout, a textural panning of submerged tones through the stereo field and a deep, hollow bass tone running below the surface. The …
How hard does this video go? Completely mesmerized by footage of crashing helicopters while the sounds of a Swiss version of Guerilla Toss meets Blue Oyster Cult plays out the fiery demise of what could be a whole city block of housing into one boozebag in a whirlybird. Shook by what I saw but also …
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This is the second track we’ve shared from Morgan Doctor’s Strangers project. Built on the concept of “anonymous intimacy”, Morgan Doctor set up a website that recorded messages between strangers that could include…”open letter to humanity, a confession about love or the verbalization of one’s heart’s desire.”. Strangers, the album, serves as the backdrop for …
Inspired by the Luis Borges short story The Aleph – a single spherical point where all things can be seen – “In the Scrying Pool” by the UK based Gifts from Crows builds out from and around a piano line that wends its way through swells of strings and a double bass line that are …
“Come About”, the third single from Camila Fuchs LP Kids Talk Sun coming out later this month is a dip Bjork style Trip-Hop and commanding vocals. The Mexico City / Munich based duo have created most aggressive composition they’ve put out this year. Of the record they write, “The result is an ecosystem of complex, …