“It Is What It Is.” An Interview With Darksoft
credit/ Look Up Records “For lyrics on Beigeification, I’m using a lot of “thought-terminating cliches,” or beige phrases as I’ve come to call them,” says Darksoft, a singer/songwriter/producer/polymath from Portland, … 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
Vinyl Of The Week: Occurrence – The Past Will Live Forever review
Heaven Patrick Phillips It will be the past and we’ll live there together. Not as it was to live but as it was remembered. It will be the past We’ll … Continue reading
Lovecraftian Futurism: New Leaders Of The Eldritch Noise – The Art Of Eldritch Noise
“There in the narrow hall, outside the bolted door with the covered keyhole, I often heard sounds which filled me with an indefinable dread—the dread of vague wonder and brooding … Continue reading
The Importance Of Innocent Ears: Ital Tek – Hollowed (Planet Mu)
Brighton’s Ital Tek gets back to basics with a stunning new LP on Planet Mu! Warm/cold. Retro/futuristic. Dubstep. Minimal. Hip-hop. Ambient. Once upon a time, these were all separate offshoots … Continue reading
Model Cities & Haunted Dischoteques, Logotones & Deep Space Drones: In A Moment – Ghost Box 10 Year Anniversary
Ghost Box celebrate their 10th Anniversary with a career-spanning 30-track compilation, reminding us why we need them more than ever. It’s been 11 years since Ghost Box first unleashed their … Continue reading
Virtual Forest – Unconscious Cognition Is The Processing Of Perception (Yerevan Tapes)
You step out onto the holodeck, heavy boots resonating on sheet metal, even though it looks like you’re walking through grass and weeds. There is a moment of cognitive dissonance, … Continue reading
Catching Up With 2014: NeoTantrik – Omnichrom (Pre – Cert Home Entertainment)
Modular waves; deep space ambiance; temple bells and bone dance dub techno, from this power trio of occult electronics Regular readers probably need little introduction to the names … Continue reading
Catching Up With 2014: Jane Weaver – The Silver Globe (Bird Records)
Jane Weaver creates a cosmic motorik folk concept record, based on a banned Andrzej Żuławski film, on her most ambitious and well-realized album to date. Jane Weaver is a lynchpin … 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
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