Foxy Digitalis
An echo grows in the distance, between sharp piano shards, shifting synth timbres, and dampened vocal patterns. Natalie Beridze’s music always creates visceral connections, and while the cadence of “Who Dwells In Possibility” is obscured by a fogged lens, it still maps the endless sonic expanses that are never quite contained. Lilting phrasings move from […]
There’s a fine line between a dream and a nightmare sometimes, and often the colors and timbres of each intersect at a perfect point. Mol Sullivan’s “Eggshells” dives into the deepest end, tackling the difficulties of balancing one’s own needs against those of a trying friendship. Navigating the emotional strip mine of figuring out who […]
A wistful mood settles into the flickering guitar melodies and plaintive chord progressions on “Summer Session #7,” offset by the vivid imagery of Renee Willoughby’s video. Infinite River is searching for something, digging through fleeting memories hoping to find an unspoken truth in the vault before the last bit of sunlight fades. Tanpura chatter buoys […]
In the opening moments of “and the ashes birthed them into air and their bodies hurtled towards the fire of the sun,” it’s as though some kind of creature, constrained for millennia, is finally breaking free. Hissing feedback and hollow drones keep pushing back the simmering rhythms, but eventually, the restraints break and it takes […]
The odd juxtaposition of imagery and sound in Rrose Defoix’s “Blurb Flu” video is emblematic of the music as a whole. On a surface level, it leaves me disoriented and confused – in a good way – but as I travel further into its sonic cracks, some kind of sense crystallizes. Even while I lose […]
Light beams made from snaking string melodies cut jagged holes in the harsh, resonant atmosphere of “Immer Besser,” letting the outside world for the first time in eons. Percussive swashes welcome the cascading arrangements before everything guest drummer Greg Fox touches explodes into a full-force sonic gale. This music is huge, the anthems of another […]
Lost in a quiet downpour, JWPaton’s “Aunty” moves through countless spaces like a stealth razor, leaving small sonic traces while collecting remnants of echoes along the way. Landscapes sound in the margins of “Aunty,” culled forms shaped by technological tools, as though these expressions are lost reverberations from a different time. Melodic loops flicker, moving […]
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 […]