Foxy Digitalis
My love for the Vancouver-based Transmolecular Compendium (not sure if they still use that name actually!) knows no bounds. My introduction to this incredible group of artists started with the inimitable SEEKERSINTERNATIONAL, but wzrdryAV was right in the thick of things shortly thereafter. Kelly Nairn’s music as wzrdryAV flies a different path than SKRS, but […]
Opening Solid with “HgO” is an optical illusion. Growls from Àlex Reviriego’s double-bass seep through your skin as if you’re being fully submerged into a dark, murky yawn. The illusion blasts apart once “HgS” kicks in and Ferran Fages’ feedback-laced guitar howl and blistering drums from Vasco Trilla unload. Solid is one hell of a […]
First off, I know very little about Ki Oni and only found this release because Emma Palm (aka No Translation did the excellent cover), but Stay Indoors and Swim is the sound of the shimmering surface of a pristine blue swimming pool under the brightest, hottest sun imaginable. Wistful, repetitive synth melodies hover lackadaisically; the […]
During the latter days of the second Foxy Digitalis insurgent (what?), Good Willsmith put out one of my favorite records (2014’s The Honeymoon Workbook). I haven’t kept up with them as much since as I should have, but this live recording is stellar and unexpected. These loose jams suck you through a time warp, throwing […]
Picking up old threads as 2013 bleeds into 2021. Hello again… On January 31st, 2013 when I pressed ‘publish’ on the final installment of my long-running column, The Long Decline, I 100% believed that was the end of Foxy Digitalis in any form. I hadn’t dropped any hints or made any announcements leading up to the […]