Foxy Digitalis
Jessica Ackerley weaves entire lives into each note from her guitar, stitching together a stream of reflections to make whole worlds of sound. “All of the colors are singing,” the first single from her upcoming album of the same name, is dynamic and graceful. Featuring strings by Concetta Abatte, drums by Aaron Edgcomb, and Walter […]
As soon as “Zejitsutan” begins, Yuko Araki unleashes a relentless sonic assault. Distorted waves come fast and furious, sandblasting any textural abstractions into a howling oblivion. Serrated edges cut through with harsh static as though interdimensional connections are being torn apart from the inside. The black-and-white video by Daisy Dickinson mimics the charred noise with […]
The way Alessandra Novaga’s voice winds through an ever-growing sonic maze is captivating, as though she’s gently holding us in the palm of her hand while the world grows darker. Her repeating melodies loop effortlessly in the sky atop crying strings and inquisitive guitar arrangements. Hypnotic atmospheres permeate every layer of this music, haunting the […]
Sunlight is refracted through a scratched prism in the effervescing stretches of Kuma’s “Her Own Private Constellation.” Crystalline timbres spread across the horizon line, blurring future visions with grayscale hallucinations. Each passage adds to the sonic expansiveness, but with our focus anchored in front, the grandeur faces backward like we’re leaving an eternal shadow in […]
“Good Fortune” is an opening. Countless pathways spark into life, snaking off into the distance at sharp angles without worry for intersection or abbreviation. Elijah McLaughlin and Caleb Willitz combine different steel timbres of electric guitar and piano, playing off chance to push each other into new directions. Glassine explorations move in from the margins […]
Fractured narratives and elegiac tonescapes combine for a timeless, otherworldly experience in Olivier Cong’s “They don’t sleep on the Beach anymore.” Framed by textural sonic washes, melodic blurs lead to familiar sound worlds. Melancholic note patterns hang in still air as though time stops, shining a spotlight on specific moments we’ve long tried to forget. Cong paints […]
What dreams lurk in the distance? Where do our nightmares send us in the end? Yorkshire Modular Society’s “Fiery the Angels Fell” is a languid drift through empty space reflecting on the fall. Blurred landscapes move in slow motion, melodic echoes stretched beyond time and into a moment of stillness. Within its glacial progressions, this music is immersive and almost […]
One thing I love about Mountain Movers is their ability to be shapeshifters. Their records often cover plenty of ground, but the music never feels disjointed or out of place. “Reclamation Yard,” from their upcoming album Walking After Dark, astral travels through a third-eye continuum. Eben Kling and Aude Jomini (of FEED New Haven) craft one of […]
There’s a beguiling tension in the sharp synth timbres and drifting, ethereal vocalizations on Requiem’s “Breathe.” Momentum builds gradually in the underlying swells as Andrew Toy’s rhythms emerge from the Earth. Monica Stroik sings through the changing sonic shapes brought on by Tristan Welch’s crystalline guitar exultations and Doug Kallmeyer’s shifting synthesizer forms. It’s like […]