Foxy Digitalis
Lea Bertucci has been on an absolute roll the last few years between her solo work, and collaborative work, along with curating excellent compilations with companion sample libraries. Her newest work is a collaboration with the great Lawrence English and it doesn’t disappoint. We chat about it, her recent trip to Australia and New Zealand, […]
Even in the subterranean cataclysms of Lea Bertucci and Lawrence English’s “Amorphic Foothills,” the sky above ignites with a thunderous fervor. Discordant strings wallow beneath layers of gray, flailing through the air as though they’re being chased by resonant hellfire. “There are moments, traveling through new terrains, that the strange familiar resonates with extra clarity,” […]
Mixing it up this week as I’ll be traveling, so I recorded a week’s worth of mid-year favorites for y’all to dig into. Twenty albums, five a day (plus five I’m looking forward to in the second half of the year on Patreon this Wednesday). Wednesday episodes are exclusively on Patreon. Sign up now! Day 5: […]
Things you love to see? Two absolute powerhouses like David Toop and Lawrence English making a record together. Plus A Handful of Dust continues as a duo, Country Wifi rides again, and some of the fun perks of the Foxy Digitalis patreon. Wednesday episodes are exclusively on Patreon. Sign up now! Album of the Day: David […]
When two titans like David Toop and Lawrence English come together on a project, it comes with expectations. “Whistling in the Dark,” the first taste from their upcoming album, The Shell That Speaks The Sea, heightens the drama with phantasmic atmospheres saturated with distorted squalls. Ambient sounds obscure the harsh edges at the periphery, where skittering, […]
Foxy Digitalis has been back for just over two years now, and I find it difficult to get my head around it. Throughout that period, though, the core idea and drive have remained the same, even if the pieces and structures have shifted somewhat. I’m excited the site launched a handful of new columns and […]
What more can I say about Lawrence English? He is one of the finest people working in contemporary and experimental music, whose artistry is only outweighed by his generous spirit. In a year where he released one of the finest slabs of conceptual drone and his label, Room 40 (full disclosure, one of those releases was my own), continued to […]
Pulling the curtain back on this fantastic new collaboration from two all-timers reveals a methodic approach to creating restrained grandeur. Using a collection of recordings from a century-old pipe organ in Brisbane, Australia, Scott Morgan (aka loscil) and Lawrence English embark headfirst on a trip of emotive electronic pathways. Geometric patterns in the video move […]
The world that unfolds on Aviva Endean’s tremendous Moths & Stars feels expansive and deeply rooted within a vulnerable space. Visceral stretches permeate every layer of the album while its breadth grows with each track’s forward progression. Electronics spin pensive drones into aural memories spreading through our inner thoughts, encased in the glow of vibrating strings and […]