Foxy Digitalis
Time stands still, and the world’s sonic echoes continue ringing. Slow movements rise and fall through rich, fog-laden valleys as Christopher Willits blurs the lines between the seen and unseen. Sharp synth timbres are an accent to the underlying swells, pointed reminders of the emotive depths hidden within, aloft on pensive guitar clouds. Each note […]
Narrative vignettes are tied together in the inward-flowing expanses of Brian McBride’s “Far From Home” rework. Glassine drones turn to vapor, swelling beyond borders and into the night. A sense of dread lurks within resonant hollows, twisted into pensive melodies that disappear in the seconds before taking hold. McBride continues to turn the screws, building […]
Riding through a vivid memory quest, Head Shoppe unlocks an ancient magic. Timeless guitar pathways and spectral sonic glass glide through suncast skies to drop hallucinatory rain drops into the parched maw of the Earth. Lilting melodies are the fabric of our dreams that swirl lackadaisically in the vivid expanses stretching toward the horizon. Studio […]
Kenneth James Gibson’s new album, Groundskeeping, swims through solemn, turbulent seas before emerging weary and determined on a distant shore. It’s a record with emotive soundscapes interwoven with careful details that bring memories to the surface long-thought buried. Cascades of melancholic strings become a waterfall of languid remorse, buoyed by a few embers of hope. Groundskeeping is an […]
Kenneth James Gibson has an innate skill at creating enveloping moods with his music. His last two albums for Kompakt, In The Fields Of Nothing and The Evening Falls, built expansive worlds where anything seemed possible. His newest, the first release on his newly formed label Meadows Heavy Recorders, Groundskeeping shares similar aspects, but turns further inward and creates […]