Foxy Digitalis
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 […]
Inside the fragile walls of “Vågnende Jeg Ser De Døde,” midnight is a distant beacon stuck in a world of haze. øjeRum spins a calm facade across the decaying spaces beneath wistful piano arrangements and sonic interference. Strings dance behind glass at the periphery, leaving us wondering if our minds have gone or if these […]
Gene Tripp gives voice to the void. Crushing distortion hollows out the bedrock holding up our forward progress, collapsing any notion of pretense in a squall of thick basslines and straightforward vocal melodies. As the alter ego of artist and composer Jay Hufman, Gene Tripp is a laser-focused melancholy filtered through a meat grinder. As […]
The night is young, prehistoric perhaps, on Adrian Knight’s latest, “Carousel of Time.” Inside the warm atavistic glow of late-night TV noise and faded neon, silhouetted arrangements take shape and hone our focus. Sunkissed guitar melodies bounce off synth beds flowing in arctic circles, all of which is a blanket wrapped around Knight’s infectious vocal […]
For those who have missed it, Biliana Voutchkova’s series of duo releases on Relative Pitch this year have all been eye-opening and worth investigating. The latest, with Tomeka Reid, though, ups the ante. Voutchkova’s approach to the violin is equal parts ecstatic and visceral. On Bricolage III, moments of surprising, elastic beauty intersect with inquisitive sonic […]
When we last left the enigmatic Builenradar, the damaged post-apocalyptic bikerfolk cataclysms were just waking up from a slumber. His new album, There Is No Hunger In Your Shame, is a quiet, fractured force of engaging sonic decay. With these two live videos from Morphine Raum in Berlin (and recorded by Morphine Records’ Rabih Beaini (sound) […]
Mark Kimbrell and Patrick Shiroishi are the dream team I didn’t realize I needed, but now that Oort Smog is in my life, I am overwhelmed. The duo runs the table on “Every Motherfucker Is Your Brother,” never setting out to do it all but somehow managing to anyway. Pensive, reflective opening moments gather our […]