Foxy Digitalis
Hot on the heels of the announcement of Sontag Shogun’s collaborative album with Lau Nau, Jeremy Young veers into woozier territory with his new solo effort, August Tape Sketches. Created primarily with sine and square wave oscillators plus tape loops, the album glows in its restraint. On “Untilted For Toma,” Young twists guitar laments into a […]
Take a deep breath. Get ready. We’re going for a ride. (and it’s all for a good cause). Ben von Wildenhaus assembled an all-star cast to kaleidoscope around the world, splitting off into cohabitating factions where skeletal guitar melodies and weird incantations dance in harmony. Snaking through abandoned streets, vocalizations become signposts to lead us […]
For almost two decades, lutenist and composer Jozef Van Wissem has explored the boundaries and possibility of the lute. His work mixes baroque stylings and experimental approaches to create something continually evolving and often surprising. His forthcoming album, Behold! I Make All Things New, is an enticing mix of masterful lute playing and ruminative electronics. “What […]
Anteloper will play live in Chicago at Sleeping Village this Friday, February 25th. Get Tickets Here! Within the hollowed-out spaces of bass synth globules and bricklayer drum machines mixed with acoustic rhythms, Anteloper – the duo of jaimie branch and Jason Nazary – send rockets across the Chicago skyline. This polyrhythmic approach on “Bubble Under” (from […]
With Laura Cannell’s new album, Antiphony of the Trees, she elevates the recorder into a higher realm. On “The Girl Who Became An Owl,” the latest preview, a solemn, contemplative feeling flows throughout. Languid squalls breathe inside the middle register imbuing a peacefulness beneath the melancholic movements. Drones ground the lyrical dance of multiple interwoven melodies […]
There’s a hazy shroud of mystery surrounding Obsidian Shard that only heightens the experience of listening to their angular electronic compositions. “Passion for Eternity” comes from their forthcoming album on Histamine Tapes and offers glimpses of speculative sonics overcast by stochastic rhythms. Electronics swirl and glitch before black holes randomly open to swallow the stilted […]
Displaced energy hisses across barren landscapes in the frigid confines of Cole Peters’s new edition for Room40, A Certain Point Of Intertia. Subtle shifts in direction, the movement of the wind, a pensive quietness; all these common occurrences coalesce into something with real weight. Peters is a guide through A Certain Point Of Intertia, using field recordings […]
Anytime I have the opportunity to share something involving Spires That In The Sunset Rise, I’m going to do it. Recent months have reminded me why they’re one of my favorite bands from the last 20 years. These days Spires is the duo of Taralie Peterson and Ka Biard. Their most recent release, 2020’s Psychic Oscillations is […]
I’m not sure Daniel Menche needs any kind of introduction. For over thirty years he has created a massive body of work that has a focused, solid-state intensity few artists could sustain for a short period let alone a lifetime. Yet that heaviness spreads its tendrils across a mountain of sonic ideas and expressions, Menche […]