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
Tortoise & Tenon: Tortoise & RJD2 @ Soul’d Out Music Festival; 4.20.2017; McMenamin’s Crystal Ballroom, Portland, Or.
Chicago’s Tortoise elevated an at-capacity crowd with their minimalist post-everything rock ‘n roll for the second night of the Soul’d Out Music Festival. The mortise and tenon joint has been … Continue reading
Embodied Electronics: Body Shame – You Look So Under Fed (SdmPdx)
it’s okay to have a body. In the April 2016 edition of Nylon Magazine, in an article titled “Body Talk”, artist Molly Soda speaks of when she first became self-conscious of her … 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
Pole – Wald
Stefan Betke enters the forest on Wald, his first album under his infamous Pole moniker in 8 years, with surprising results. Electronic music, historically. is not known for looking backwards. … Continue reading
Horrorscores: Cat’s Eyes – The Duke Of Burgundy OST
Cat’s Eyes score for Peter Strickland’s The Duke Of Burgundy is pure psychotropic orchestral pop grandeur, that will put fans of Broadcast and Stereolab into paroxysms of pleasure! … Continue reading
Eternal Tapestry – Wild Strawberries (Thrill Jockey)
Portland’s Eternal Tapestry blend the pastoral and the technological, on their first ever double-LP, for psych juggernauts Thrill Jockey. For their newest, sprawling soundwork for Chicago’s Thrill Jockey, Eternal Tapestry … Continue reading
Daniel Ruane – Arrhythmia (The Silent Howl)
emerge from the dust and gloom into a landscape of scintillating, living light on Daniel Ruane‘s Arrythmia. Technology is usually perceived as cold, sterile, while its acolytes are stereotyped as … Continue reading
Bing & Ruth – Tomorrow Was The Golden Age
reclaiming nostalgia It would be all too easy to lump Bing & Ruth‘s second LP with the retrofuturistic “longing for a future that never happened” of Leyland Kirby’s Sadly, The … Continue reading
Shellac – Dude Incredible (Touch And Go)
There is nothing like listening to a band that has been playing together for over 20 years. And where most bands feel the need to get more convoluted, Shellac have … Continue reading
