January 18 Recommended Albums: James Blake, Sharon Van Etten, SHXCXCHCXSH
The week of January 18 feels like the first week of 2019 that’s jam packed with new and noteworthy releases. New years always tend to start off slow, as the … Continue reading
You Are Not Who You Are: Isobel Ccircle~ – Save Karras album review
In my teens, I eyed my adulthood with trepidation, as if stalked by a stranger – one who would seize control as if by demonic possession and regard my fledgling … Continue reading
Unheimlich Pop: The Sone Institute – Where Moth and Rust Consume (Front & Follow)
On his first album in six years, Roman Bezdyk drags ’90s electronica into the moth-eaten world of Hauntology. Hauntology has expanded far beyond the confines of experimental electronic music from the … Continue reading
Candles In The Virtual Void: Peter Zirbs – What If We Don’t Exist review
½ artful synthpop, ½ neoclassical ambient synth, Peter Zirbs’ first solo record speaks to the promise and potential perils of a virtual existence. A girl stands at an arcade machine, … Continue reading
SoCal Gothic & The NEW American Dream: Hxxs – Valley Fever album review
With Valley Fever, Bakersfield, CA’s Hxxs dream of a new world, conjuring it into being with beat-ific communions and synthetic sanctified calls to arms. If America is the land where … Continue reading
Lifestyles For Apocalyptic Youth: Drvg Cvltvre – Nobody Cares Forever (New York Haunted) review
On his newest long-player for the dependable New York Haunted label, Vincent Koreman, the prolific madman behind Drvg Cvltvre subverts lifestyle branding with subversive snippets of soundbytes, with a battery … Continue reading
Mixtape Of The Week: Kindred Spirits – The Next Time You Have A Nightmare, Remember This Mixtape
embarking with the pale dead – coffins under sail – women with dead hair – pale white bakers – a dark purple river – the silence of death There are … Continue reading
Falling Under Dominowe’s Spell: Dominowe – SiyaKatha review (Gqom Oh)
You know the game ‘dominos’? How all the effects have when we are falling and we all are effected? That’s what I wanted to do with my music. Once i … Continue reading
Merzbow Monday: Merzbow – Aodron review (Automation Records)
Imagine: You are watching The Wizard Of Oz synched up with the Dark Side Of The Moon alternate soundtrack. When the EMS Synthesizer’s cyclonic sequencer of “On The Run” syncs … Continue reading
Vinyl Of The Week: Logan Lynn – Adieu review
A synthy Indie Pop “jazz hands mental crisis” from Portland‘s Logan Lynn on Adieu, Lynn’s eighth LP . Both the record sleeve and the LP decals for Adieu feature a super … Continue reading
