Foxy Digitalis
Repetition is a beautiful, hypnotic weapon on the first single from Pedro Vian and Mana’s upcoming album, Cascades. Urgency and whimsy become colliding forces on “Cascades IV” as varying synth passages intersect and veer off in opposite directions. Resonant loops bloom in the minor undercurrents, sifting stray waves into tape-saturated sonic peaks. The lead flute-like melody […]
The opening track for Body Corp’s (aka Sydney’s Marco Vella) upcoming album, Unusual For Us, is an invitation. Rhythms with the corners worn down flutter through cascading piano melodies adrift in the ethereal atmosphere. Vella layers in dose after dose of warm sonics, each one more emotive and charming. “Unusual For Us” is a space of […]
I love when Room 40 goes big, and this ambitious double release from the legendary Phauss is no exception. The duo of Carl Michael von Hausswolff and Eric Pauser began in the early 1980s, and their sonic experiments still sound as progressive 30 years on as they did at their inception. Two of these works […]
Wau Wau Collectif has an innate ability to crease the margins into sharp points and focus their music into expansive, expressive sonic worlds. Their second album, Mariage, arrives next month and pushes the thrilling highs of their debut, Yaral Sa Doom, beyond the horizon. Silky grooves are etched in winding patterns through parched landscapes to set the […]
Kasper Bjørke Quartet’s forthcoming album, Mother, is stunning. With this record, the Danish composer, along with the musicians in the Quartet, distills massive ideas into intimate reflections. Bjørke’s aural treatise on the life cycle of our planet is poignant and evocative, laden with a resonant gravity that shapes each of its six beguiling passages. On “Abiogenesis,” […]
Listening to the latest single from Moon Mullins’ forthcoming album, Water Your Flowers, is akin to living in a time capsule. Mullins spins together a bouncy, timeless dream using an array of vintage equipment. There’s an unfettered world living its best life on “Surfboard,” cutting across synth hooks and buoyant rhythms with focused determination. The woozy, […]
Baritone guitar and drum duo Able Noise garble the airwaves with decaying memories on “To Appease.” Blanketed with shades of tape fuckere, “To Appease” plods ahead across empty streets and lucid dreams. “This piece is arguably one of our most representative bits of recorded music so far,” they explain. “It is exemplary of our interest […]
Skittering rhythms and buzzsaw electronics cut a hole in the razor wire atmosphere trying to cage in Sea Moss. The Portland, Oregon-based duo of Noa Ver and Zach D’Agostino channel visceral sonics into furious, intense soundscapes laden with blurred, surprising hooks. “Snake Lady” drills snarling oscillators and feedback scree into harsh-angled song structures, pushed along […]
Life stares us down in the quiet moments of midnight on r beny’s stunning rework of Ameel Brecht’s “One Illusion Backward” off his forthcoming album, The Locked Room. beny shapes the hushed tones into an alternate dimension, living and breathing through the darkness to find a horizon teeming with promise. Spreading the emotional toil of Brecht’s […]