Alchemical Americana: Califone – Roots and Crowns (Thrill Jockey)
For their fourth proper full-length, Califone update their scrapmetal Harry Smith alchemical Americana with a bit of exotica, sparkle, and sheen. Califone are, to quote Grand Funk Railroad, an American … Continue reading
The Best Dark Ambient Albums of March 2020
The streets are all empty. We are all living in quarantine. We are essentially living inside of a Dark Ambient album now. Now is the perfect time to listen to … Continue reading
Best Dark Ambient Albums Of February 2020
February is an interesting month. For much of the Northern Hemisphere, yr still frozen solid, hibernating away from the cold and the ice and the howling winds, praying for the … Continue reading
It’s Happening Again… The Soulless Party – The Black Meadow Archive Volume I album review
It’s happening again… The Brightwater Archives are finally unsealed, unleashing a whole new treasure trove of audio and ephemera surrounding the misty mysterious Black Meadow on the North York Moors. … Continue reading
England’s Dreaming: Craven Faults – Erratics & Uncomformities (The Leaf Label)
On Erratics & Unconformities, enigmatic British synth outfit Craven Faults departs the industrial ruins of Northern England for wilder climes. To say that Britain has been undergoing a ferocious transition … Continue reading
Sounds From Underground: NCHX – B-O-M album review (Plastic Horse)
A compendium of underground electronics, Nochexxx’s fifth LP is a tube journey through acid, techno, electroacoustics, radiophonics, IDM, and bass music. B-O-M opens with the sound of a tube station, … Continue reading
Jodie Lowther – The Cat Collects album review
Jodie Lowther’s fourth solo album is less an album than a spectral landscape to get lost in, over and over. It’s spellbinding. Imagine, if you will, a flickering curtain of … Continue reading
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
