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Office Culture’s new album, Big Time Things, takes us over a cliff in the gentlest possible way. Even if the landing is soft, though, it still stings. It’s a pristine album, a crystalization of the band’s approach leading up to this point. Winston Cook-Wilson’s ‘Great Vocal Performances’ mix sheds a different light on the album. Big Time […]
An emotional cliff looms on the second single from Office Culture’s forthcoming Big Time Things. Worst-case scenarios are repeating mantras in our tired minds, but what happens once we give in? Flickering keyboard motifs draw distracted shapes in the transient skies as Winston Cook-Wilson traces the psychic steps through exposed memory fields and buried fears. Emotive […]
Foxy Digitalis depends on our awesome readers to keep things rolling. Pledge your support today via our Patreon. Allegra Krieger looks past the sheen we’re told to wear and ignores the paper covering every last crack. On her new album, the beguiling Precious Things, the veil is gone, probably burned for a sliver of warmth, and the crumbling world […]
Foxy Digitalis depends on our awesome readers to keep things rolling. Pledge your support today via our Patreon. One thing I loved about Foxy Digitalis year-in-review articles in the past was that each individual writer did their own piece however they wanted (if they wanted to! It was never required) and while this new iteration of Foxy Digitalis […]
The opening notes on “Figure No. 2” are daggers. Darius Jones lays his soul bare on Raw Demoon Alchemy (A Lone Operation), plumbing the depths of five pieces from five different artists and turning each into a reflection of modern despair and the surprising tendrils of hopefulness the darkness inspires. Jones’s performance is incandescent in both […]
On the second offering from JJJJJerome Ellis’s forthcoming opus, The Clearing, the composer and poet creates a space where reflection brings challenges to ingrained ideas and concepts. “My thesis is that Blackness, dysfluency and music are forces that open time,” Ellis states. “Opening brings possibilities: temporal refusal, temporal escape, temporal dissent,” he says, creating a demanding […]