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Adam O’Farrill Stranger Days’ 2021 album, Visions Of Your Other, veers through generational dichotomies intertwined with virtuosic performances and forthright arrangements. It’s outspoken without using words, leaving a trail of debris in its sonic wake. On closer, “Blackening Skies,” O’Farrill and his Stranger Days bandmates explore anxiety-laden landscapes with austere melodies and pensive rhythms. “The rhythm […]
Almost a year on from its release, New Chance’s (aka Victoria Cheong) fantastic Real Time continues offering new gifts. “To The Edge” is a standout from the album fueled by dystopic rhythms and subdermal bass lines that build a glossy pedestal for Cheong’s incisive, hypnotic vocal melodies. It’s a song in search of deeper, existential connection; of […]
Tension is the oxygen flowing through Pierce Warnecke’s “Untitled III,” the remnants of a sonic megalith buried under a mountain of decay. Exploring the notions of interference, deterioration, and transformation, Warnecke carves a pointed channel from pristine emergence to a place where only the memory of sound remains. Shifting harmonies move at a considered tempo, […]
Cal Folger Day’s forthcoming album, Piece-dye, is remarkable in many ways. Foremost is the narrative woven throughout and lyrical content. Day conducted an interview with Irene Nalle – a distant aunt and Irish immigrant – exploring her experience arriving in New York City in the post-war boom. From there, Day used verbatim quotes to construct the […]
Calling this a video premiere completely sells it short. Congregation of Drones is the duo of Grammy-winning violinist Pauline Kim Harris and electronic composer, installation artist, and software designer Jesse Stiles. Their music is immersive, stretching across boundaries, disintegrating lines and pushing limits to their breaking point. Live processing and experimental synthesis build expansive sonic […]
I can’t help but be reminded of the recently departed Vangelis in the opening chords of Golden Feelings’ radiant daydream, “Kozmička Glazba.” Layered synths sing together, exuding golden harmonies into an intricately choreographed freefall. There’s a clarity to each strand of sound that is a guidepost pulling us into this orchestrated world. The video by Micah […]
I love the sound of a carbonated beverage being poured and that lively effervescing opens “50 Million Motives for Making.” It’s a small, perfect encapsulation of the spirit throughout the latest single from ACT!’s forthcoming Strange Bounty / About Life. This latest project from David Psutka (Ceramic Tl, Egyptrixx, etc) lives in spaces where the surface […]
“‘Dead Weight’ connects the time I spent in 2010-2016 driving around North Carolina laying the foundations of my identity in music, and my life today as a New Yorker holding onto and celebrating my identity as a southerner,” Frank Meadows explains about the title track for his forthcoming album due in July. “Dead Weight” jangles […]
For the second anniversary of TALsounds (aka Natalie Chami) exceptional Acquiesce, NNA Tapes are re-releasing the album on tape with a fully-remixed b-side, Requiesce, from Dust of Dreams (aka Rorik Brooks of Cloud Rat). On the original “Dynasty,” Chami’s synthetic dreamscapes follow a disjointed path where glazed-over vistas melt into neon frames. It was always one of my favorites on […]