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.
Lucy Liyou makes me cry and I like them very much for that. Their debut album, Welfare, was a kaleidoscopic soundscape jumping between moods and styles with elegance. Practice continues that journey, but in a way that feels more expansive and closer than ever at the same time. So much of what makes their music […]
Sometimes I hear a piece of music that instantly evokes such a vivid, vibrant world of imagination in the first few minutes that I have no choice to write something about it. Spellbinding as the moment is, it’s hard to do it justice, but for me, there’s still an intense desire to try; to find […]
Visceral to the point of being transcendent, Byron Westbrook’s Hue, his latest for Hands in the Dark, is massive. Thick, atmospheric drones boil over and eventually scatter into the wind, finding intricate paths and subdued zones beneath the expansive ether. Cathartic as it may be, there’s an inward nature to Hue that is intimate yet […]
Here on Imbolc, a Foxy Digitalis archival interview with the one and only Telecult Powers from 2011. This interview was done in late 2011 and coincided with the release of their first (and utterly essential!) LP Zion Traveler. Enjoy. Few bands have left a bigger crater in their wake in 2011 than the duo of Telecult […]
Heavy doses of hypnotic electronics swirl around your skull from the opening passages of Eraserhood. Scale is a major factor here, where everything feels magnified and epic. Zeigler and Lewis get into lofty zones that stretch the imagination and open up waves of positive feeling. “Observatories” is sunkissed afternoons and warm breezes, layered synths effervescent […]
I kind of feel like nothing needs to be said about this considering the two artists involved, but I’m going to say something anyway. Dream team? Obviously. Torch Songs is a hint at what’s to come as there is a full-length on the way this year, but these dense cave dwellers are monsters on their […]
One of these days I am going to do a feature on Boomkat’s Documenting Sound series because it’s been an unbelievable run (that shows no sign of stopping). They released a number of my favorite releases through the series in 2020 (Heather Leigh’s Glory Days is unreal). Teresa Winter’s Love Crime continues their winning streak […]
I am admittedly late to the table on Somei Satoh’s work. For years, I’ve had an awareness and have listened to some pieces here and there, but it wasn’t until late last year and through a serendipitous picture Greg Davis posted that I finally fixed that (there’s something so stunning and enticing about the cover […]
I promise not to spend this entire review extolling Luke Stewart’s genius, but looking back on 2020 he was involved in so many of my favorite records (and his double LP on Astral Spirits is an all-timer) it’s kind of ridiculous. But hell, Tashi Dorji is right there too. His sound is always unmistakably his […]