Foxy Digitalis
The first Capsule Garden of 2026, here we go! As we prepare for a potentially monster snowstorm this weekend in Tulsa, I’ve been listening to a lot of excellent tunes. I’ve also been mixing and mastering a lot of equally excellent tunes (if you would like me to master or mix your album, or help […]
Early on Ian Wellman’s latest album, The Night The Stars Fell, a foreboding sense of despair takes root in the melancholic chord progressions and stark field recordings. This hopelessness shifts, though, somehow becomes comforting in the way it connects us to things we already know, but don’t want to admit. Narratives emerge from the wind-blown whispers […]
Marcus Fischer has a way of knowing what sonic expression is needed at a precise moment. His discography is a mountain built on this, and the focused ideas bloom, leaving solid traces wherever they go. It’s a mountain worth scaling. Fischer brings that same approach to this beautiful mix titled (if we can make it […]
There’s a claustrophobic feeling imperiled in Ian Wellman’s incredible “The Toll On Our Daily Lives.” In the video by Trevor Baker, that claustrophobia is distilled in the way vivid colors fade to a darkened brown, black, and grey palette. Repeating loops rise and fall like the slowing breath of a dying patient where the anxiety […]