Foxy Digitalis
Katie Lou McCabe’s music transmits something well beyond the sonic shapes and sound forms. Her new album, Innersense, is a diaristic reflection that can almost feel like too much. All of McCabe is buried within the aural atmospheres and hypnotic vocal wanderings. Still, it is less a looking glass than an invitation to find our own […]
Sam Wenc’s Post Moves project creates moments of stillness while never actually sitting still. His engaging approach to composition and, especially, his use of pedal steel builds unseen connections between expression and reflection. If this music imagines sonic spaces for us to look inward, the result is a bridge to some unknown place. Recall the Dream […]
So much of John Atksinson’s solo work is tactile, which is doubly true on his newest, Energy Fields. Using field recordings made during a 2019 residency at the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming – the largest coal-producing state in America – he turns them into a revenant, engaging reflection. Meditative sinew ties the sonic spaces together, but […]
From the opening, frenetic bombast of “Do You Spiral Down Often?” to the downtrodden dream zones of “Sinking,” Youniss sends out a series of visceral sonic missives on his new album, White Space. Every time I’ve listened to this album, it’s stayed with me for hours after the last grinding guitar notes fade away. It’s emotionally […]
Third go round, and some further selections from artists either stumbled across or eagerly watched out for. Filmmaker Artillery Material (Opal Tapes) Determinedly relentless Industrial techno with a bounce to it, this latest from the prolific Filmmaker keeps up his high-quality streak. Summoning something of the glory days of the ‘industrial meets electronic’ remix when the groove […]
Every week, I spend time poking around random Bandcamp tags in search of new, interesting recordings from outside the usual North America + UK + Western Europe sphere that most promos come from. I’m almost sure that’s how I ended up on the Bali Gamelan Sound Bandcamp page. Agustín is an Argentinian student who fell in love […]
I’m stealing a bit of my own question from this interview for the intro, but Cory O’Brien’s music, especially his latest album, SR01-22, has an uncanny ability to make me feel lost. I mean this in a good way as this album, in particular, always pulls me into new directions, new sonic spaces, where I lose […]
Once the neon mist lifts and we’re left with a horizon view, Polinski’s Telex From MIDI City takes flight. Synth arrangements drip with romantic longing and hazy visages from another world. Built atop a frenetic foundation of intricate, angular rhythms, vaporized circuitry finds new life as reclaimed memories from beyond the divide. Arpeggios glean the emotion from […]
Tucked within every crevice of Asher Tuil’s Automatism are stories waiting to be discovered. He sculpts so many ideas from different textures and sonic wanderings that each listen to one of his albums produces a different experience each time. Familiar sounds drift through filters and radio waves to morph into something new and unexpected, all carrying the […]