Foxy Digitalis
“MML” unfolds like a slow burn, a hymn steeped in fury and held in stillness. Dorian Wood sits with her accordion, the frame unflinching, her voice rising through waves of distortion and light. The synths grind and effervesce, not as decoration but as pressure, as rupture. There is no spectacle here, only presence—anchored, alert, and […]
Some records feel less like documents and more like vessels, carrying grief, memory, and longing in forms that language alone can’t contain. Kadahin Milandaasin, the latest from drummer and composer Tarun Balani, unfolds with patience and emotional depth. Its textures are spacious and deliberate, shaped by ambient drift, devotional resonance, and a rhythmic language that […]
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Hayden Pedigo! I absolutely adore his new record, “I’ll Be Waving As You Drive Away,” so it was great to talk to him about it before diving into a host of excellent picks. We talk about the crushing agelessness of Judee Sill, Wolf Eyes on the […]
On Poravna, Croatian vocalist Vesna Pisarović doesn’t so much reinterpret tradition as pull it apart, letting the traces of Bosnian Sevdah drift through improvisation, dissonance, and suspended time. The album is grounded in a deep awareness of cultural memory, but it resists any fixed reading. Recorded across two live sessions in Zagreb and Berlin, Poravna […]
Some albums move like a memory just out of reach, vivid in feeling but impossible to pin down. Wanted To Show You, the debut full-length from Chicago-based artist Lipsticism, creates that kind of space. It blends ambient haze with glistening house rhythms, and spectral pop with fractured balladry, all while holding a soft ache at […]
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s The Modern Folk (aka J Moss)! I keep getting pulled back to his new album with the Modern Folk Electronic Ensemble, and that felt like a perfect excuse to get him on the show. Good times were had! We talk about starting off with Bob Dylan, […]
“Screen Test” hovers in the space between memory and illusion, part of the soundtrack for Ken Jacobs’ In the Depth of Illusion: A Soundtrack for Nervous Magic Lantern. Whirring electronics shift between whimsical and ominous, threading through a haze of cassette hiss and field-recorded fragments. Static acts as a tactile surface, a sonic web that […]
So many things and so many pieces are moving at different speeds and in different directions lately that I want to just let go of the ride and see where I land. This is not a complaint, at all, because most of these things are excellent, yet overwhelming nonetheless. Summer is upon us, though, so […]
Almost an Island is the new trio of Cynthia Bernard (marine eyes), James Bernard, and Kenneth James Gibson, and “What Got Us To Our Feet” is the first light from their debut. Everything unfolds with care. Guitar lines trace a path through shifting air, chord changes landing like signals sent from far away. There’s a […]