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Electronic atmospheres collide with a baroque spirit and the ghosts of Spanish folklore to create an extraordinary, magical sound world. Yamila’s Visions is a hypnotic reverie, a masterpiece of timeless narratives through a contemporary lens. “Visions III” brings this music to life through Marina Marscarell’s stellar choreography and memorable performances from dancers Yiorgos Pelagias and Marion Rastouil […]
Astral grooves creep into the frame and find a home in an exotic lounge swimming in late-night psychedelia. Monde UFO explores the spectral beauty hidden in plain sight on “Visions of Fatima” through swirling dub-inflected drum machine rhythms, haunted organscapes, and hypnotic vocal melodies. An ancient sheen of deep space hiss and hum gilds every […]
There’s a world passing us by, whether we are in constant motion or sitting quietly and still. Sluice, the recording project from Durham, North Carolina’s Justin Morris, taps into that feeling on his forthcoming album, Radial Gate. Morris reminisces through the blistering heat and firework haze on the second single, “Fourth of July,” amid a bed […]
When my friend Allison turned 21, we stayed up all night. We hit a couple bars while it was still dark out, but by 1:00 AM, we were bored. Waiting for drinks and deciding which of the three other bars downtown Durham, North Carolina offered at the time wasn’t the exciting coming-of-age tale it was […]
At the heart of Mat Muntz’s new album, Phantom Islands, is the idea of radical syncretism, music from everywhere and nowhere. “This is a “counterfeit folk dance” which I imagine to be from the phantom island of Satanazes, a nonexistent place off the coast of Iberia,” Muntz explains. Muntz and the stellar ensemble concoct imaginary sonic […]
Subterranean creep comes to life on the first slice of Morgan Garrett’s Extreme Fantasy, “Fall & Walk.” Dripping synthetic mercury decays in the resonant chasms beneath his desolate voice and skittering rhythmic chaos. He wails, “Figured: too much systems, thought it’d do right now,” before omnipresent guitar riffs burst through the wasted din, and everything goes […]
The things Cruel Diagonals’ Megan Mitchell can do with her voice are unreal, and it’s everywhere on her forthcoming album, Fractured Whole. Looping patterns take sharp turns in the opening moments of “Precipice,” building into a cascading arrangement that’s mimicked in the video. Harsh signal interference glitches in and out of existence, as though someone is […]
After they contributed to Lee “Scratch” Perry’s Guide to the Universe (by New Age Doom) and only spoke on the phone once, Tim Lefebvre and Gregory Macdonald started a new collaborative project. With Lefebvre improvising beats and basslines in his studio, Macdonald took those pieces and molded them into tracks. The result is one hell of a […]
“Trolley Portal” tiptoes in at lightspeed before a quick pause, then jettisons into a bright, mythical universe. Andy Loebs creates their own narrative map that sparks from countless perspectives, leading to this joyful spread of intersecting sonic matrices. Bass slaps dance atop swirling pulses, all of which send askew looks at the cut-and-scrape sax samples […]