Featured Reviews
Forms obscured by willowed silhouettes become immersive, pondering environments on The Mountains Pass. This is music drawn from primeval memories, ideas borne of amber glass, and natural movement patterns. Olivia Block’s way of connecting fleeting soundworlds and fragmented sonic expressions always leaves me wondering. Is any of this real? How did I end up here? Whimsical […]
Songs of Our Lives
For this episode of Songs of Our Lives, I invite Emil Amos on the show! We went way off script and got into all sorts of rabbit holes because Emil is such a good storyteller, but this was such a good time. After a lengthy discussion about tape music and trading in the 90s, Emil […]
Interviews
“Nature abhors a vacuum.” We hear that all the time. It’s ingrained in us. 9T Antiope, the Iranian duo (based in Paris) of Sara Bigdeli Shamloo and Nima Aghiani, dissects this idea through sonic world-building and inquisition on Horror Vacui. The music is textural and expansive, unearthing living moments in the smallest details. It’s an album […]
The Capsule Garden
I was texting with a friend of mine the other night and it hit me that it’s almost mid-April already. How is that remotely possible? I feel like we were just having people over for New Year’s. Wild. As ever, there are a lot of things happening here. To help keep funding the site (a […]
Forms obscured by willowed silhouettes become immersive, pondering environments on The Mountains Pass. This is music drawn from primeval memories, ideas borne of amber glass, and natural movement patterns. Olivia Block’s way of connecting fleeting soundworlds and fragmented sonic expressions always leaves me wondering. Is any of this real? How did I end up here? Whimsical […]
Inside No. 9, Season 3, Episode #29: It’s at its worst when it’s at its clearest Ravenously avant-garde music for the mind and body. Scratching the backs off of insects until they spew out chemical clouds that make the taller creatures dance. Purple, turquoise, pink and yellow clouds abound as the glorious uprising of the […]
Cutting a sharp, neon visage against a crumbling wall, Morgan Garrett emerges from a mess of wires. “Suck” coalesces acute-angled sonic shards into a hollow ghost story. Woozy acoustic strums give way to clattering rhythms and electronic discord, a cataclysm of internalized horror. The stop-start cadence of “Suck” adds to the tension and dissonance, Garrett’s […]
For this episode of Songs of Our Lives, I invite Emil Amos on the show! We went way off script and got into all sorts of rabbit holes because Emil is such a good storyteller, but this was such a good time. After a lengthy discussion about tape music and trading in the 90s, Emil […]
It’s the golden hour and a new world comes alive. Wistful guitar melodies flicker in the distance, pulling us closer to the horizon where electronics dance in whimsical patterns. Everything on Saapato’s wonderful “Morning Swale Song” swirls beneath a hazy veil, buoyed by the gentle whispers of insects and creeks. Bailey Elder’s video lulls our […]
On this episode of the Foxy Digitalis Podcast, I talk to R. Hunter aka missing scenes about his latest album, “who is this for?” I love the title of this record as it’s a question I think about and ask myself often. We get into that for a while, talk about process, what’s ahead, and […]
Joy Guidry is a beacon. The bassoonist and composer has brought so much light into the world, especially with her last album, Radical Acceptance, and the forthcoming AMEN. “I Will Always Miss You” strips back layers, offering an intimate sonic portrait of letting go, being cared for, and what family means. Quixotic pads underscore her contemplative bassoon […]
“Nature abhors a vacuum.” We hear that all the time. It’s ingrained in us. 9T Antiope, the Iranian duo (based in Paris) of Sara Bigdeli Shamloo and Nima Aghiani, dissects this idea through sonic world-building and inquisition on Horror Vacui. The music is textural and expansive, unearthing living moments in the smallest details. It’s an album […]
I was texting with a friend of mine the other night and it hit me that it’s almost mid-April already. How is that remotely possible? I feel like we were just having people over for New Year’s. Wild. As ever, there are a lot of things happening here. To help keep funding the site (a […]
