Foxy Digitalis
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 […]
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 […]
Time stands still, and the world’s sonic echoes continue ringing. Slow movements rise and fall through rich, fog-laden valleys as Christopher Willits blurs the lines between the seen and unseen. Sharp synth timbres are an accent to the underlying swells, pointed reminders of the emotive depths hidden within, aloft on pensive guitar clouds. Each note […]
Jagged rhythms and sounds from a long-dreamed future landscape drop on the world like a sonic bomb as soon as “Synthetic” hits the floor. Dieter Moebius never stopped looking forward and the sounds on “Synthetic,” recorded in the early 2000s, sound contemporary 20 years on. Composer Tim Story recounts when he first heard these pieces […]
Atmospheres are glowing, lush, and welcoming on “A Host For All Kinds of Life” while still creating a place to look backward through time. Wistful chord progressions flow like a gentle sonic river, pulling our memories into the future on crystalline tone patterns. Green-House, now the duo of Olive Ardizoni and Michael Flanagan, creates worlds […]
Emotional power builds in the incandescent fragility of Penelope Antena’s voice on “Bonfire,” the latest single from her new album, James & June. Elegiac piano chord progressions are accented with subtle yet sharp electronics, creating a shattered glass sonic foundation for Antena to lift off. Antena’s vibrato cuts through the atmospheric pressure and pulls us forward. […]
“Seeing Yourself Seen” is an invitation, an open door toward a luminous, welcoming space to look out in the distance. Past and future lives intertwine in the acoustic guitar patterns and gentle piano arrangements. This music is a coming together, a place to congregate before moving ahead. With ruminative guitar leads that pull forward like […]
I’ve said, on multiple occasions this year, that whatever Dorian Wood does and wherever she goes, I will follow. Her music is a force, whether it’s borne from stunning vocals or held within an illuminating stillness, and it is an invitation to find focus and be present. On “Excesiva,” her latest for Dragon’s Eye Recordings, […]