Foxy Digitalis
For this, the inaugural episode of Songs of Our Lives, I invite New York composer and saxophonist, Jeff Tobias on the show. After a quick chat about Jeff’s latest album, Music from Milky Way Underground, we dig into memories of taxidermized squirrels using pipes as saxophones, bugs chilling with Rick Froberg, Jeff being dead inside, […]
Sarah Morrison’s forthcoming album, Attachment Figure, is a connecting point for so many diverging pathways that it almost feels impossible. Gentle sonic landscapes are a rolling, ephemeral playground for Morrison’s lyrics, which cut straight to bone. Each moment is beautifully crafted and left in the sun until ready, until imbued with just the right glow. Morrison […]
From the first moment I heard Cassie Wieland’s incredible remix of Adrianne Munden-Dixon’s “Lung,” I wanted to hear more and know more. A few months later, her debut, Birthday Party, is out, and it’s a release that leaves a mark. I talked about this more in-depth on this edition of Foxy Digitalis Daily, but I still wanted to […]
Phosphene is the Portland, Oregon-based duo of Rachel Frankel and Matt Hemmerich, and on their new album, Transmute, they push their sound further into the universe. Between the vulnerability woven into the lyrics and sonic elements and the expansive palette give Frankel and Hemmerich more space to explore inside these shoegaze-adjacent, experimental pop songs. Ryan Huff’s […]
For 20 years, Shinkoyo has been the connective tissue for a wide range of artists, musicians, thinkers, and more, a space for pushing conceptual boundaries and visionary exploration. Over the last two decades, Shinkoyo members have been part of creating vital arts spaces like Silent Barn, Paris London West Nile (which became 285 Kent), and […]
Nonconnah is the duo Magpie and Denny Corsa (with occasional guests), but there’s something about the project that makes it seem like so much more. They create music that is rich in depth and details, fluid and exploratory. Electronics burst into life across melodic fieldscapes, underlit by waves of emotion. Their latest, Unicorn Family, is an […]
Hyunhye Seo’s new solo album, Eel, is visceral and somewhat disturbing, but there’s a satisfying timbre that saturates every movement. Dark motifs scatter when any stray beam of sunlight focuses in, pouring water over decaying, angular frameworks. Her part in Xiu Xiu always made such a strong impression, so I was thrilled when she began making […]
Summer vacation officially ends tomorrow and while part of me is happy to get back on some semblance of a schedule, it’s been such a great couple of months that I’m mostly bummed. I think the kid is a little sick of me (even if she doesn’t admit it), but I’ve been having way too […]
Infinite River’s debut album, Prequel, will carry you away to a calmer place. There’s a drift-like feel to its six improvised tracks, with the band’s four members — Gretchen Gonzales Davidson (guitar), Joey Mazzola (guitar), Warren Defever (harmonium and tanpura), and Steve Nistor (percussion) — adding what they can to keep the music moving forward and […]