Foxy Digitalis
From the earliest moments of Shuta Husanuma’s Unpeople, his first new album in seven years, we’re drawn into this intricately fractured sonic landscape. It’s overwhelming and beautiful and otherworldly all the same time as the Tokyo-based artist deconstructs various tonal elements before putting everything back together. He works with a host of collaborators from Keiji Haino, […]
When I wrote about Gina Izzo’s spellbinding ladyybirdd project recently, I described it as the Wild West of solo flute music. The deeper I dig into her new album, Tomorrow’s Yesterday, the truer that axiom becomes. Izzo bends flute passages into dazzling, expansive sound worlds buoyed by dancing rhythms and gilded electronics. Adding to the mesmerizing […]
Marguerite de Roche’s Sous ma peau, un volcan has been on regular rotation since I came across it a few months ago. There’s something so inviting about the Ethiopian artist’s music that I lose myself to swirling thoughts of self, past lives, and distant futures. Besides music, de Roche is a poet, and Sous ma peau, un volcan isn’t […]
Orquesta del Tiempo Perdido has become a mainstay in my headphones over the last year, and with two new albums in the space of a few months – Sepk and Rimpianti – there’s no sign of that letting up. Jeroen Kimman pulls countless threads through a whirling musical wormhole, putting together sonic and rhythmic combinations that are endlessly engaging. […]
Sarah Morrison’s forthcoming album, Attachment Figure, is a connecting point for so many diverging pathways that it almost feels impossible. Gentle sonic landscapes are a rolling, ephemeral playground for Morrison’s lyrics, which cut straight to bone. Each moment is beautifully crafted and left in the sun until ready, until imbued with just the right glow. Morrison […]
From the first moment I heard Cassie Wieland’s incredible remix of Adrianne Munden-Dixon’s “Lung,” I wanted to hear more and know more. A few months later, her debut, Birthday Party, is out, and it’s a release that leaves a mark. I talked about this more in-depth on this edition of Foxy Digitalis Daily, but I still wanted to […]
I’ve been pretty floored by a lot of the music coming out of Beirut over the last few years – and I realize I’m a bit late to the party here – but the city’s scene has produced a handful of my absolute favorite albums in recent memory. One thing many of those records have […]
Nonconnah is the duo Magpie and Denny Corsa (with occasional guests), but there’s something about the project that makes it seem like so much more. They create music that is rich in depth and details, fluid and exploratory. Electronics burst into life across melodic fieldscapes, underlit by waves of emotion. Their latest, Unicorn Family, is an […]
Hyunhye Seo’s new solo album, Eel, is visceral and somewhat disturbing, but there’s a satisfying timbre that saturates every movement. Dark motifs scatter when any stray beam of sunlight focuses in, pouring water over decaying, angular frameworks. Her part in Xiu Xiu always made such a strong impression, so I was thrilled when she began making […]