Foxy Digitalis
Sarah Morrison’s forthcoming album, Attachment Figure, is a connecting point for so many diverging pathways that it almost feels impossible. Gentle sonic landscapes are a rolling, ephemeral playground for Morrison’s lyrics, which cut straight to bone. Each moment is beautifully crafted and left in the sun until ready, until imbued with just the right glow. Morrison […]
In the moments we least expect it, but often at the times we need it most, the ether speaks back. Kuma’s latest for Frosti, We Have Dark Friends, was written and recorded in Spring 2022 when he was dealing with COVID-19. Thick sonic haze is sliced to shreds with searing guitar drones and lithe, atmospheric […]
Borrowing its title (translated as ‘No Attachment To Dust’) from a Zen story, Fabio Perletta concocts an immersive sound world of earthy textures and resonant memories. Metallic scrapes morph into haunted echoes that keep watch for sharp timbres to emerge before dissolving into a slow-moving melancholic sea. Piano notes hang in the balance, ghosts in […]
The Allegorist’s recent album, TEKHENU, is sprawling and visceral, and an absolute gem of a record. It binds countless stories into one expansive narrative, simultaneously feeling like a futuristic vision and an artifact from the distant past. With TEKHENU Retold, she has 10 different artists tell their versions of these events. Album closer, “Barefoot,” gets a makeover […]
Carbon In Prose — Surrender To The Tide from Dragon's Eye Recordings on Vimeo. Subtle movement and waves of distortion wield so much power on Carbon in Prose’s “Surrender to the Tide.” Aural swells contain histories upon histories, emotions buried and forgotten before twisting inside these granular details, plaguing an already-darkening future. Light tries to […]
Pointillist, metallic melodies fall from the sky like chrome rain as “Vuurfest” fades into focus. Emotive synth arrangements drift through melancholy, obscured by firework smoke, leaving us gazing toward the empty sky. Steve Salembier’s video slows our perception to a crawl with gently spinning, paper umbrellas floating above the city. It’s like we’re stuck here, […]
Front page photo by Hampus Andersson The opening moments of Vilhelm Bromander’s “Blommor och bröd” are just a whisper of the dawn that awaits. Katt Hernandez traces elegiac patterns on her violin, with piano accents from Alex Zethson flickering beneath like glimmers of sunlight dancing on water. Percussive washes emerge with trailing woodwinds before a […]
Everything eventually ends, but within that fleeting impermanence, so much beauty can be found. Solbore’s “We Forget” situates itself firmly in that space, drifting on ambient, electronic waves that spread across the distance. Liminal landscapes emerge from the aural clouds, heightened by the reflective melody from Lachlan R. Dale’s rubab. Tension swims through the sonic […]
Non-stop. Unexpected. A collaboration between Aussie great Eugene Carchesio and UK drummer extraordinaire Adam Betts wasn’t on my 2023 Bingo card, but “M” shows that it’s a stellar match. Carchesio’s minimalist, hypnotic aural patterns are pulled into subterranean orbit by Betts’ frenetic rhythms. There’s a relentlessness, as though every bar and sonic texture is being […]