Interviews
There is something beautiful in paying close attention to the sounds and movements of activities we often do. Rituals exist in so many places we don’t notice. Somatic Steamed Eggs is a collaboration between Rachel Beetz and Heidi Ross that finds profound depth in one of cooking’s most elemental gestures. Since 2023, the two have […]
Articles
I will probably never settle on whether I want to publish this recap article in December or January, but I have gone with the former this year in an effort to really take a break from the site for a few weeks this time. It’s been a wild year. Everything feels unstable, or at least […]
Inside No. 9
Inside No. 9, Season 4, Episode #49: 2025 in Reflection This year I have spent more time in bargain bins and secondhand stores than buying new music. That doesn’t mean I haven’t kept my ears open to new releases, but it was definitely a year for dusty vinyl and ancient CDs. That said, it was […]
Songs of Our Lives
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Peter Taylor! I’ve known Peter for nearly 20 years now – he’s a true Foxy Digitalis lifer, having first written for the site around 2006. He also makes music as MAbH, and is the person behind Foxy Digitalis’s Inside No. 9 podcast series. He’s a real […]
“Blindsided” catches us in its web before we realize we’re trapped. “How to love in the face of this death?,” Sabra serenades in the chorus, spelling out the album’s core theme. The combination of the propulsive, almost buoyant rhythm with Sabra’s lilting vocal melodies and Tabbal’s layered electronics is captivating, both exultant and ethereal. We […]
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Ryan Sawyer! His new album, “For Those Who Wish to Sing Will Always Find a Song,” has a bit of a hold on me. It’s one of my favorite albums of 2025. After talking through some of the concepts and the framework behind it, we get […]
On Happiness Is Found In The Soul’s Immortality, Tbilisi’s Gvantsa Narim captures grief within sonic resonance. These eight pieces are emotionally potent and absorbing, written and recorded using her late father’s piano in what feels like music pulled from elsewhere, Narim becoming a conduit to another plane. Quiet moments sharpen the melodic edges, giving Happiness […]
“Beautiful Place” opens like sunlight piercing through thick clouds, a living drone that sets the tone for small, blossoming hopes. Greg Jamie’s guitar lines tease out melodies as tangled strings become taut once again, bringing focused energy into a beacon of sonic light. Josephine Foster’s voice echoes the sentiment, heightening the repeated refrain, “Can there […]
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, Patrick Shiroishi is back! Patrick returns to the show nearly two years later with an incredible new album, “Forgetting is Violence,” out this week on American Dreams. I can’t get enough of the record, so after talking about various facets of it, we get into Upsilon Acrux, […]
Wide-angled views of waves prove lulling, almost hypnotizing in the video for “The Coiling of the Tide,” buoying the elegiac trumpet melody that feels eternal. Peter Knight’s horn breathes with the ocean’s rhythm, each sustained note drawing from the same wellspring that birthed these compositions: his summers spent on Australian shores, the interplay of wind […]
There’s something magnetic about watching two artists discover each other in real time, especially when their instruments seem to speak the same mysterious language from the very first note. Matthew Ryals has spent years cultivating an unusual relationship with his modular synthesizer, coaxing sounds from electronic circuits that breathe like wood and resonate like metal. […]
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Weston Olencki! Over the last few years, Weston’s become one of my favorite musicians around, and their latest album, “Broadsides,” only cements that further. We get into the record’s interesting backstory and some specific moments before diving into the romance in Radigue’s work, Rahman Mammadli’s shredding, […]
Léna Bartels crafts sharp reflections, but houses them within warm, inviting sonic worlds on her new album, The Brightest Silver Fish. The Brooklyn-via-Portland songwriter operates in that tender space between feeling and thinking, where emotions become puzzles to solve rather than storms to weather. While Bartels might yearn for futures that will never be realized, […]
Interviews
There is something beautiful in paying close attention to the sounds and movements of activities we often do. Rituals exist in so many places we don’t notice. Somatic Steamed Eggs is a collaboration between Rachel Beetz and Heidi Ross that finds profound depth in one of cooking’s most elemental gestures. Since 2023, the two have […]
Articles
I will probably never settle on whether I want to publish this recap article in December or January, but I have gone with the former this year in an effort to really take a break from the site for a few weeks this time. It’s been a wild year. Everything feels unstable, or at least […]
Interviews
Davide Cedolin’s music makes a home in the spaces between memory and landscape. The sound of wind through trees becomes indistinguishable from the gentle pull of a bow across strings. With Ligurian Pastoral Vol. II, he deepens his exploration of rural Liguria’s quiet territories, bringing accordion and synthesizer into conversation with field recordings that feel […]
Interviews
British South African composer and producer Galina Juritz has spent years moving between worlds: classical training and jazz improvisation, Cape Town and London, the precision of notation and the freedom of electronic production. Her debut solo album, One Weird Trick, refuses to settle into any single space. This music is lush and inviting, pulling listeners […]
Interviews
Landon Caldwell creates sonic landscapes built on texture and melody, threaded with an inward-looking, emotive resilience. His new album, Strategic Light, grows from that same patient, deliberate place where synthetic sounds reveal an organic core. There’s something so pleasing about the aural world Caldwell has assembled here, something that resists easy categorization but invites deep […]
