Foxy Digitalis
Scattered thoughts coalesce around a focused spontaneity, echoing off the angular architecture of “Baphomet,” creating intricate sonic webs that spread across the black sky. Methods Body’s approach is broken and repurposed, sending the duo of Luke Wyland and John Niekrasz into new creative spaces. “Baphomet” skitters through evolving aural ecosystems, leaving percussive textures and textures […]
Posset There Are So Many Lights In The Sky I Don’t Know What’s UFO Any More (Self-Released) Newcastle Upon Tyne’s ever-reliable, ever-woozy Posset’s latest dispatch is a single journey of many mini movements. Drawing ever nearer to Chris Morris in terms of juxtaposition and surreality, There Are So Many Lights…. is more domestic than its interplanetary title […]
No matter how far we travel, our worlds are quite small. Fragments of our spirit and our memories may spread across celestial distances, but our hearts inhabit little space. “Sessilia” – the first single from Laura Naukkarinen’s ninth album, 5 x 4, recorded on the famous Buchla 200 system at Elektronmusikstudion EMS Stockholm over five years […]
There’s a lot of great stuff on the site today from Mariam Kiani, Karen Vogt, and Lau Nau so be sure to check it out. And a lot of great stuff on Patreon this week as well, including a bonus podcast. After all that, I spend a lot of time talking about Sim City 2000 […]
A mirror is a canvas. A mirror is a void. Cruel Diagonals shatters the barriers between perception and reality on “Vestigial Mythology,” with Megan Mitchell’s voice conjuring ancient spells via electric rituals. Bass rattles the inner sanctum, a shockwave blooming within spiraling vocal arrangements teeming with mantras obscured by doubt. Cascading musical shapes climb across […]
The things Cruel Diagonals’ Megan Mitchell can do with her voice are unreal, and it’s everywhere on her forthcoming album, Fractured Whole. Looping patterns take sharp turns in the opening moments of “Precipice,” building into a cascading arrangement that’s mimicked in the video. Harsh signal interference glitches in and out of existence, as though someone is […]
As an album title, Journey Test sends my thoughts skittering in multiple directions, but as an actual album, I find calm and focus within its gentle movements and warm glow. Cincinnati-based composer Tristan Eckerson has released countless albums of modern classical music, but with Purple Decades, he reveals something cocoon-like and introspective. Using a minimal palette but moving […]
Foxy Digitalis has been back for just over two years now, and I find it difficult to get my head around it. Throughout that period, though, the core idea and drive have remained the same, even if the pieces and structures have shifted somewhat. I’m excited the site launched a handful of new columns and […]
Bliss is a fleeting memory permeating the intimate landscape of Purple Decades’ (aka Cincinnati’s Tristan Eckerson) beguiling “Everthus the Ether.” Repeating phrases etch into our internal dialogue, thawing layers of emotive permafrost with emotive passages and expressive vulnerability. “Everthus the Ether” is a wistful coda for a time of separation leading to reconnective embraces. Mathilde […]