Foxy Digitalis
Kira McSpice’s Saturnism began with a hypnosis session, a trance guided by her friend and breathwork facilitator Trina Merz, and what McSpice found inside that trance became the foundation for a four-album series. It’s a genuinely strange origin story, and the music matches it. Rich and fully realized, Saturnism is full of dusty laments, charred […]
On this episode of the Foxy Digitalis Podcast, I talked to Kira McSpice about her incredible new album, “The Compartmentalization of Decay.” It’s a record that’s really left a mark on me in 2024, and this conversation with Kira made me love it even more. Kira McSpice “The Compartmentalization of Decay” Kira McSpice and I […]
There’s a feeling woven into Kira McSpice’s “Knife Like a Spile” where after listening to it a single time, it’s as if it’s been a part of the universe forever. The first single from her new album, The Compartmentalization of Decay, cuts a valley into calloused skin, to try and cauterize the growing rot at its […]
The weeks continue and the sounds do too. Let’s get straight into it. Klara Livet Varandra (Self-Released) Dead folk-blues (that remind me enough of Flaming Tunes to mention it) from Astrid Mortensen (whose recent Skærgårdslyd is essential listening) and Dan Johansson. Keyboards wheeze like there’s no electricity left in the batteries but the instruments still hold a charge and have sounds […]