Foxy Digitalis
Brad Rose is a multi-disciplinary artist and dad based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He previously ran the Digitalis label from 2003 to 2015. He is the principal writer and editor-in-chief of Foxy Digitalis.
“Grace In Rot” heaves itself into existence like something pulled from deep soil, all roots and raw nerve. Neti-Neti, vocalist Amirtha Kidambi and percussionist Matt Evans, let this track emerge from their most depleted state, and the result carries that specific gravity of exhaustion transmuted into flame. Evans describes how it “heaved its way out […]
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Wilder Maker’s Gabriel Birnbaum! Wilder Maker have an incredible new record on the way, “The Streets Like Beds Still Warm.” It’s the first in a trilogy that tells a story of one night in the city from dusk to dawn. I love it. We talked about […]
There’s something about the way nostalgia crystallizes around technology, how the limitations of old machines become their most expressive qualities, how the crude becomes luminous through the alchemy of distance. Joe Bastardo understands this transformation intimately. Working as Bastian Void for over a decade, he has spent years excavating the emotional residue left by vintage […]
The synthetic waters of Early Fern’s “Watermilfoil” create a state of suspension, where digital sediment drifts like submerged light through careful currents. The waltz unfolds not in ballroom time but in the patient rhythm of aquatic plants swaying, each synth voice occupying a different depth while nasal tones surface and crystalline keys settle deeper into […]
There’s something almost geological about the way trauma settles into memory; layer upon layer accumulating until what was once fluid hardens into something you can build upon, or break against. Ted Laderas understands this kind of sediment intimately. The Portland-based cellist and composer has spent the last several years excavating his own relationship to catastrophe, […]
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Dorian Wood! She’s probably my favorite singer in the whole world. Her voice just stops me in my tracks every time. But she’s so much more than that, with so many wonderful, interesting projects across mediums, so it was a thrill to finally get on a […]
“Culdesac,” the latest from On the Water’s Return, finds power in sonic form and catharsis not through dramatic breakthroughs, but through the honest admission of where the pavement stops and the wilderness begins. Fletcher VanVliet’s voice is as razor-sharp as ever, cutting angular valleys through charred guitar arrangements and ghost-fueled exultations. The music rises and […]
It may still be 100 degrees outside, but in my mind, summer is officially over. Mainly because my kid started back at school yesterday (entering middle school – oof!), so I have to try and transition out of summer-camp-dad-mode. How am I going to do that? No clue, but hopefully I’ll start feeling less fried. […]
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Marissa Nadler! It was such a blast to connect with another life, someone who I have known for over 20 years at this point. Her latest album, “New Radiations,” is my favorite thing she’s done yet, and considering what’s come before, that’s a testament to the […]