Foxy Digitalis
I will never get tired of these extended pieces KMRU keeps putting out. With falling dreams, his guitar is ready to break your heart. This sounds like being lost in an alien world where the oceans are grey and the sun is nearly invisible behind thick, dark clouds. You are alone. In the distance, as […]
Bardo Pond’s Gibbons brothers return as Vapour Theories with a scorching suite of soaring guitar anthems at a time when the world needs them most. With Celestial Scuzz, the duo is pulling music down from a higher place, channeling the sonic heavens into a living, breathing sonic aural monument. Shifting between mind-melting electric guitar blowouts […]
Shuffling through Colin Fisher’s extensive discography is eye-opening and intimidating. He has done a vast array of work for countless labels, with endless collaborators, and in different styles. Chameleonlike in some aspects so that he can shapeshift and plug into so many zones, Fisher also has an uncanny ability to put his own stamp on […]
You know what I can’t get enough of right now? Joy. Even if this week feels less bleak than a few months ago, there’s still so much downward pressure and heaviness that is trying to grind everything into dust. Senegal’s Wau Wau Collectif’s Yaral Sa Doom laughs in the face of it, tempting the fates […]
On Pi Sound, Chloe Yu Nong Lin unlocks new perspectives and possibilities for the traditional Chinese pipa and creates a stark, disparate world that is equal parts enchanting and scattered. Even using a fairly limited palette – she mixes in electronics as well – it is her intimate knowledge and skill with the pipa that […]
Jen Powers and Matthew Rolin have done a lot of fantastic duo work together in the past couple years and honestly the combination of hammered dulcimer and 12-string guitar is such a winner that you’ll find me bowing down at whatever altar they’re putting up. In the hands of not just skilled players, but astral […]
When I think about the concepts of sonic agency and building worlds through sound, C. Lavender is one of the first artists that come to mind. Her work is a conduit that takes listeners into new, uncharted zones. Whether that journey is introspective or moving through time and space, she is a guide. Transient Seclusion […]
This is heavy. pa is the second album from this North Texas duo of Ernesto Montiel and Miguel Espinel, recorded on March 21st, 2020 right before most of us went into lockdown and the pandemic really started to scream. Additionally, Montiel’s father died the day before in Venezuela. In some ways, pa becomes a poignant […]
I love releases where I hear countless recognizable sounds put together and manipulated in ways I can’t begin to process. Combining these elements gives off a disjointed familiarity that is unsettling yet cathartic. Yyed’s Two Reflections in Parallel is disorienting in the best way, like being trapped inside a haunted, decaying labyrinth where you have […]