Foxy Digitalis
It’s easy to get swept away in the motorik synth sequences and floating cadences on Phantom Horse’s latest, Primal Forms. An almost-supernatural quality imbues the kosmische structures with sculptural harmonics and neon frequencies. Detailed accoutrements spit out dot-matrix style, pointillistic melodies, a balance to the free-flowing rhythms driving Primal Forms forward. Phantom Horse builds sonic […]
Myths are unearthed here and rebuilt into something entrancing and immersive, so much so that it feels like a memory. Mexico City composer and producer Nnux (Ana E. Lopez Reyes) creates an excavation site from sonic rituals on her latest album, Metamorfosis. Inner worlds are explored through historical silhouettes, sound working as a mirror. Aqueous […]
Kate Carr records cities as people usually only experience them, as a specific body moving through a specific space. It’s personal and partial, and on Vertical London, that partiality is the point. Vertical London is her experience of the city from bottom to top on a particular day (New Year’s Day, in this case). It […]
Sometimes things that don’t make sense actually make perfect sense. Ever hear a movie? Or watch a soundtrack? There’s an implausibility and disconnect there that still, somehow, is engaging and transgressive. Lifted, the duo of Andrew Field-Pickering and Matt Papich, distill that into their newest record, Movie. Six tracks where Foley bleeds into melody, and […]
Blak Saagan’s (Samuele Gottardello) monolithic Un Sequestro Lungo 10,000 Anni is one of 2026’s most audacious projects. Five years on from his last album, the Venetian composer delivers a 108-minute, triple-album opus, complete with an illustrated book featuring over 180 drawings by Iranian artist Majid Bita. This is an intensely personal work, creating a dystopian […]
When I first heard Zeynep Toraman’s work (her debut, In A Dark House), something about how she builds this profound stillness into her work stayed with me. It is music that, more than anything, creates space. I’ve been interested in her approach and thought processes behind these creations for a while, and her newest offering, […]
Jon Catler has spent a lifetime inside microtonal music, mapping territory most guitarists don’t know even exists. He’s played with La Monte Young for over 30 years, writing countless pieces for solo and ensemble performance, while also writing a book, The Nature of Music, that traces the philosophical and technical roots of Just Intonation. His […]
In the face of collapse and horror, Charbel Haber turned toward his music for clarity and solace. The Lebanese musician, now in Paris, has such a deep connection to his home, but being geographically removed allowed for a different kind of perspective. Days moved slower. Times were quieter, calmer. This became a foundation for gentler […]
When An Earring Is A Galaxy gets quiet, it opens up the most. Miles Eichner homes in on the emotive core of these 10 songs, landing in unfamiliar zones and reimagining them into something enveloping. Sequences flit from left to right, almost as if they’re hovering in alternating peripheries, present and dissolving at once. Guitar […]