Pastoral Electronics + Proto Ambiance: Bogquake – The Bogquake Tapes (Harmonic Union Music)
drifting organs + dusted riddims from the haunted hinterlands between trvth + fiction. In 1973, after drifting about the western marshland of Hookland County in one of the wilder parts … Continue reading
Catching Up With 2014: Woodbines & Spiders – Woodbines & Spiders (Gecophonic)
When you hear the name Woodbines & Spiders, perhaps you envision some sort of creaking, cantankerous steamwheel, maybe behind the decayed album cover. Or maybe you just think of some … Continue reading
Catching Up With 2014: The Advisory Circle – From Out Here (Ghost Box)
The Advisory Circle depart the rolling green hills of England, for the inky infinite expanses of the unknown, on their spaciest album to date. The Ghost Box cabal, and hauntology … Continue reading
Catching Up With 2014: Jon Brooks – 52 (Clay Pipe Music)
The Advisory Circle’s Jon Brooks revisits his grandmum’s house, with this spectral suite of retrophonic synths and concrete melodies. Everybody has a yearning for their childhood, for that feeling of … Continue reading
John Foxx & Steve D’agostino – Evidence Of Time Travel
We are all time travellers. On his newest, former Ultravox frontman John Foxx utilizes a limited template of archaic synthesizers and drum machines, to simulate the sensation of breaking through … Continue reading
Horrorscore: Various Artists – Children Of The Drones
Welcome to another edition of Horrorscores, where we transform yr waking dreams into living nightmares. For today’s installment, we travel back to the heyday of music blogs and hauntological meanderings, … Continue reading
Into The Audient Void mix, in support of the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival & CthulhuCon
This weekend is the 19th Annual H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival & CthulhuCon, here in Portland. To mark the occasion, to get in the mood and spread the madness to … Continue reading
Various Artists – Down To The Silver Sea
Haunted Holiday The British seem to have many different associations with the Summer Break. Could mean vacation with yr Aunt and Uncle in Waverley, or the dreaded trip to the … Continue reading
NEW ALBUM REVIEW: Pye Corner Audio – Sleep Games (Ghost Box, 2012)
Here’s a review that i wrote for the newest Ghost Box release, the new album from The Head Technician, the main motivating force behind Pye Corner Audio Transcriptions Services. I’ve … Continue reading
