Foxy Digitalis
Once “Trust Lanes” finds its groove and gets into a steady, progressive flow, there are no limits to the air Mute Duo – Skyler Rowe and Sam Wagster – can catch. A bass line crawls along the floor, and the foundation builds from there. Vibraphone and pedal steel resonance lilt in the spaces carved out […]
Staran Wake is the UK-based duo of Andrew Bunsell and Tom Relleen. On their self-titled debut, four years in the making, they create engaging arrangements built on repetition, texture, and introspection. Vivid soundscapes move with languid animation where emotional resonance builds in the cracks and shadows. This music, with precise architecture, allows sonic flourishes to […]
“Neural” rises and falls in slow motion, like a great beast lumbering backward toward the darkness. Dafeldecker, along with Nicholas Bussmann and Judith Hamann on cello and John Heilbron on double bass, wield subtle dissonance with a sharp edge. Tension builds throughout the piece; though it has purpose, it never searches for release. Countless repetitions […]
Loren Chasse and Juho Toivonen’s “telekinetic long-distance collaboration” turn details into spacious soundworlds from the rumbling water to reflective guitar incantations. Natural elements blend into tonal whispers, connecting roots beneath the soil to the ether echoing above the air. Drones flicker in the distance like illuminated shapes, spelling out secret messages from ancient texts. So […]
A reserved sense of grandeur floods through “Prophecy,” the latest single from Jack Prest’s The Risk Of Hyperbole – Vol.2 – Object. Whimsical facades fade into an aura of sonic fog buoyed by expressive accouterments and a sense of the dramatic. Lilting piano and string arrangements feed into the supernatural feel weaving into the song’s crevices, […]
Animals join the chorus with Milan’s Rosso Polare on the enigmatically uplifting “albanella” from their forthcoming album, Bocca D’Ombra. Birds chirp, and dogs howl while the duo, Anna Vezzos and Cesare Lopopolo, craft sonic shadows through a series of whispers and breaths. Organ melodies drift in the open spaces as if pulled from another time to […]
The fun house comes alive on Jeugdbrand’s “Do you want to move in with all of us?” Dennis Tyfus and Jeroen Stevens concoct scrambled sonic riddles with various percussive instruments (Stevens) and voice (Tyfus). Angular tone patterns scatter behind Tyfus’s breath as though the duo is hunting and haunting each other, daring each to make […]
Glasgow producer Michael Hamilton holds the world at arm’s length in the opening progressions of “Again and Again.” Eventually, the walls give way, and cinematic melodies bleed into the deepest recesses of our thoughts. Rising sonic tides ride waves of textured bliss beyond midnight corridors and into future domains. Hamilton builds on each layer with […]
There’s a stoic determination in the purposeful acoustic guitar strums that hold the fractured sonic architecture of Mayssa Jallad’s “Markaz Azraq (December 6)” together. “I do not think I have ever felt such violence,” Jallad sings, her voice steeled with an imperious heartache and resolve. Her words carry the weight of a thousand suns. Still, […]