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
Ambient Classics: Celer – Discourses Of The Withered (2008, 2012 reissue, Infraction)
75 minutes of ethereal, drifting ambient drone, Discourses For The Withered introduced the essential (than) husband-and-wife duo of Celer to a wider audience. Perfect for staring out the window, full … Continue reading
Post-Black Metal Techno Hip-Hop? Yes, Please!
3 exquisite pay-what-you-want EPs from shadowy producer Akrylyk may be the truest reflection of Portland’s layered, nuanced culture yet. People love to say what Portland is – “The City Of … Continue reading
Music For Dark Skies & Ominous Portents: April Larson – Undergrounding In A Storm (Arell)
Louisiana’s April Larson delivers 20 minutes of graceful, sparking anti-gravity drones for the mail art imprint Arell. I. Storm Tower I wasn’t sure if I’d done it intentionally, not even … Continue reading
Once More, Autumn – Once More, Autumn
Once More, Autumn is the spectral debut from the St. Paul, Minnesota duo of Evan Walton and Brady Lorenzen. It is a bare, sparse, slight record, shivering and eye-blinking in … Continue reading
EUS/Mytrip – Split (BLWBCK)
Never have i been more excited to open a random e-mail from a label, as with this split release between EUS, from Costa Rica, and MyTrip, somewhere between Bulgaria and … Continue reading
Isobel Ccircle – Eyes In The Ground EP
Label: Chapel Yard Release Date: 10.3.13 RIYL: Coil, Wolf Eyes, Pierre Schaeffer, The Rita, Julianna Barwick, Philip Jeck On their first EP, Isobel Ccircle, the duo of Matt Bower, … Continue reading
The Grand Optimist – Quiet Your Mind EP
Label: self-released street date: 8.13.13 RIYL: Mt. Eerie, Fleet Foxes, Stephen Steinbrink/French Quarter, Neutral Milk Hotel, Paul Beribeau Making music is inherently an optimistic act. No matter how bleak, how … Continue reading
Joseph Curwen – Cyclopean Stones
65 minutes of interstellar tones scene: antiquated rough-hewn stone corridors on the hillside. The weight of time is palpable in their ill-fitting confines. You look to the sky, to the … Continue reading
