Foxy Digitalis
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 […]
Beneath a roiling veil of darkness, a burning sibilance and embedded urgency fuse together, forming a cathartic gravity pulling us toward an intersection point. Even though we constantly deviate from our forward path, the call beckons us back. Slow-moving bass drones slither beneath the surface, a shifting foundation that holds “Tralineation” in an amorphous cocoon. […]
Chicago’s Dominic Voz twists countless disparate sonic threads into something unique and beguiling. His forthcoming album, Right to the City, is an intoxicating blend of ambient, spoken word, classical, and deconstructed electronic music alive in a world of glitches and gorgeous landscapes. “Oxycodone” spills from glitching corridors, vapor-infused keys mixing with expressive strings and chopped-up phrases […]
I love that this piece is called “Clouds Over Sintra” because, sonically, it’s crystal clear. Deniz Cuylan spins hypnotic waves through his exquisite guitar technique and compositional acumen. Repeating patterns shift slightly in the billowing Mediterranean air with reflective and inquisitive tones, building their own language. This is intimate, almost hidden music but swims with […]
Tension shimmers like a silver thread on Starlight Assembly’s magical ‘Violent Needs’ remix of Location Services & Derek Hunter Wilson’s “Delicate Need.” Ethereal drama from the original melts into the shadows. Matteo Uggeri holds the spirit of the original while imbuing it with a newfound sense of cinematic spectacle to become a playground for Dominic […]
Walking sharp edges back from the brink becomes a finely-tuned machine on the volatile catharsis of Luna Honey’s “Smirk.” Lead songwriter Maura Pond rains fire across the solid concrete sonic foundations, buoyed by Kamyar Arsani’s explosive daf rhythms. Pond’s voice glows like a specter pulling the strings of this angular puppet show, hanging above the […]