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Well, we made it. Sort of. I mean, it’s not like this arbitrary changing of the year is going to change, well, anything, but it still feels like we’ve crawled over some kind of finish line. As I say just about every year, what an incredible year of music. This list will be incomplete every […]
Mixing it up this week as I’ll be traveling, so I recorded a week’s worth of mid-year favorites for y’all to dig into. Twenty albums, five a day (plus five I’m looking forward to in the second half of the year on Patreon this Wednesday). Wednesday episodes are exclusively on Patreon. Sign up now! Day 5: […]
Things you love to see? Two absolute powerhouses like David Toop and Lawrence English making a record together. Plus A Handful of Dust continues as a duo, Country Wifi rides again, and some of the fun perks of the Foxy Digitalis patreon. Wednesday episodes are exclusively on Patreon. Sign up now! Album of the Day: David […]
It’s Spring Break this week and I’m trying to keep my cool paints with my kid by helping her figure out how to make YouTube videos. It’s not going well, but at least Richard Youngs has new album and David Toop has a new collaboration with Tania Caroline Chen. Wednesday episodes are exclusively on Patreon. Sign […]
When two titans like David Toop and Lawrence English come together on a project, it comes with expectations. “Whistling in the Dark,” the first taste from their upcoming album, The Shell That Speaks The Sea, heightens the drama with phantasmic atmospheres saturated with distorted squalls. Ambient sounds obscure the harsh edges at the periphery, where skittering, […]
Foxy Digitalis depends on our awesome readers to keep things rolling. Pledge your support today via our Patreon. Alexandra Spence’s latest for Room 40, Blue Waves, Green Waves, has a tactile quality to it buoyed by mesmerizing field recordings and engaging spoken word passages. The music comes in interconnected fragments that lithely trace an invisible path that is both […]
Lawrence English is a one-person force of nature. Between his label, Room 40, various solo and collaborative projects, his own writing, and so much more it’s a wonder he finds time to breathe. Truthfully, this unerring, forward-pushing nature is something I deeply relate to, and seeing and hearing all that English has accomplished this year […]
Two exciting new projects from Lawrence English are being announced today, both long in the works and finely ripe for picking. First up is A Mirror Holds the Sky, a collection culled from over 50 hours over field recordings English and his wife, Rebecca, made during a 2008 visit to the Amazon. English’s visit was […]