Foxy Digitalis
The monochromatic textures and simple movements of Daniela Hýbnerová’s animations (inspired by Rebecca Holmes’s fantastic cover art) in the “Graces & Muses” video are a mirage for the complex arrangements and emotional depth singing underneath. Award-winning composer, Victoria Wijeratne’s forthcoming EP on Dragon’s Eye Recordings, Graces & Muses, is a gentle opening of the floodgates. Shifting […]
The woozy, celebratory drift of Fordmastiff’s “Counterfeit” gets bathed in outer space visuals and a heavy dose of neon in Natália Reis’s excellent video. Inspired by Rio de Janeiro’s iconic Carnival Parades, the journey from subterranean, liminal club collages to bright, effusive stomp on “Counterfeit” is like following our memories of last night in reverse. Instead of […]
Doom Flower fills the night’s hollow with a cool glow within the churn of mechanical rhythms, stilted guitar excursions, and buried bass globules. Jess Price’s voice cuts through the midnight echoes, hanging above the matte-infused layers of stoic sonics bolstered by this shrine to the beautiful resonance of decay. Black and white imagery pushes us […]
Globules of neon-soaked sonic decimation are like a warm, enveloping greeting from the opening thrall of “Worthington,” off Fruit LoOops‘ stellar 2022 album, Last Chance at the Pharmacy. Skittering rhythms careen through blacked-out corridors, shifting the trajectories of a thousand angular guitar shards. All the pieces come together like a surrealist sonic sculpture fitted with broken glass […]
Bliss is a fleeting memory permeating the intimate landscape of Purple Decades’ (aka Cincinnati’s Tristan Eckerson) beguiling “Everthus the Ether.” Repeating phrases etch into our internal dialogue, thawing layers of emotive permafrost with emotive passages and expressive vulnerability. “Everthus the Ether” is a wistful coda for a time of separation leading to reconnective embraces. Mathilde […]
Biliana Voutchkova’s DUOS series continues to be one of my favorite things about 2022. Unleashing album after album in conjunction with Relative Pitch Records, there’s not much time to come up for air. That’s a big part of the appeal for me, as Voutchkova’s unique approach and style are instantly recognizable yet always shapeshifting. Each […]
A warm whisper sifts through raindrops as dawn’s breath dances across glistening piano arrangements and ephemeral spaces. Rösner’s approach with “Ripples on Time” ground it with an air of chance, the piece beginning life as a loose piano improvisation that holds up a meticulous house of sonic elements. It’s a theme throughout his forthcoming album, Empty, […]
With the latest video from their recent album, Bathymetry, Matt McBane and Sandbox Percussion encase listeners within a crystalline soundworld on “Surface.” Textural movements glide through clear space, the only hints of friction coming in the interactive silhouettes between ASMR-infused scrapes and the bass echoes of a Moog synthesizer. For music so spacious, the detailed interactions […]
Pulling the curtain back on this fantastic new collaboration from two all-timers reveals a methodic approach to creating restrained grandeur. Using a collection of recordings from a century-old pipe organ in Brisbane, Australia, Scott Morgan (aka loscil) and Lawrence English embark headfirst on a trip of emotive electronic pathways. Geometric patterns in the video move […]