Foxy Digitalis
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The odd juxtaposition of imagery and sound in Rrose Defoix’s “Blurb Flu” video is emblematic of the music as a whole. On a surface level, it leaves me disoriented and confused – in a good way – but as I travel further into its sonic cracks, some kind of sense crystallizes. Even while I lose […]
Follow the smoke, find the fire. CLASS is relentless, and they tear the whole party to the ground on their new record, If You’ve Got Nothing. After feedback warms our cold hearts and fuzzed-out power chords paint everything in concrete gray, they spill the song’s sentiment from the beginning. “Sick, sick, sick of the same old […]
Light beams made from snaking string melodies cut jagged holes in the harsh, resonant atmosphere of “Immer Besser,” letting the outside world for the first time in eons. Percussive swashes welcome the cascading arrangements before everything guest drummer Greg Fox touches explodes into a full-force sonic gale. This music is huge, the anthems of another […]
Lost in a quiet downpour, JWPaton’s “Aunty” moves through countless spaces like a stealth razor, leaving small sonic traces while collecting remnants of echoes along the way. Landscapes sound in the margins of “Aunty,” culled forms shaped by technological tools, as though these expressions are lost reverberations from a different time. Melodic loops flicker, moving […]
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 […]
In the moments we least expect it, but often at the times we need it most, the ether speaks back. Kuma’s latest for Frosti, We Have Dark Friends, was written and recorded in Spring 2022 when he was dealing with COVID-19. Thick sonic haze is sliced to shreds with searing guitar drones and lithe, atmospheric […]
Borrowing its title (translated as ‘No Attachment To Dust’) from a Zen story, Fabio Perletta concocts an immersive sound world of earthy textures and resonant memories. Metallic scrapes morph into haunted echoes that keep watch for sharp timbres to emerge before dissolving into a slow-moving melancholic sea. Piano notes hang in the balance, ghosts in […]
Silhouettes crackle and fade into the background as “If Yer Dreamin'” spins up a glorious sonic whirlwind. Electronics dance through glitching fieldscapes, chased by sharp, stochastic rhythms and a minefield of memories. Miller cuts his voice into glass pieces before reassembling them into a melodic mosaic where urgency blends into chaos. Movement comes in multiple […]
A throbbing mound of soundwaves unveils access to the churning abyss, where Yuko Araki’s incantations channel ancient energies into future dystopias. “‡Otiron” is a hypnotic invitation into a grayscale, ritualistic hellscape, her voice synthetic spells split atoms. Along the track’s hollowed-out edge, the blood-curdling heart of a dying universe is exposed. Sub-sonic oscillations eviscerate every […]