Foxy Digitalis
And All The Clocks Ran Dry breathes like a living thing caught between dimensions. Sonic vistas cloaked in stretched and blurred melodies open up, vast and impossibly tender. An array of synths wash across the spatial plane, pulling focus and stretching perception until the borders between listening and being listened to start to dissolve. These […]
The title track features Greg Kelley and is like a sonic rise. Trumpet layers effervesce, a blooming catharsis welcoming us into the world of Pendulum. It’s an emotional hammer blow that’s so, so moving. Giffoni ties everything together with a searing precision. On “Beam,” featuring the inimitable Zola Jesus, light becomes pure, aural radiation. Arpeggios […]
There’s a stillness at the heart of “Boy Made of Glass,” a piece that seems to breathe through its own uncertainty. Stephen Vitiello and Edwin Torres move through a landscape of fragile resonance, where creeping soundworlds cradle Torres’s words, alternately holding them in suspension and pressing close until the air feels charged. Samita Sinha’s presence, […]
Wide-angled views of waves prove lulling, almost hypnotizing in the video for “The Coiling of the Tide,” buoying the elegiac trumpet melody that feels eternal. Peter Knight’s horn breathes with the ocean’s rhythm, each sustained note drawing from the same wellspring that birthed these compositions: his summers spent on Australian shores, the interplay of wind […]
It may still be 100 degrees outside, but in my mind, summer is officially over. Mainly because my kid started back at school yesterday (entering middle school – oof!), so I have to try and transition out of summer-camp-dad-mode. How am I going to do that? No clue, but hopefully I’ll start feeling less fried. […]
Voices surface from some buried frequency, trapped in tape’s amber, wind-blown and wordless, howling through Menche’s cartographic devotions and Coloccia’s stolen moments. Sharp textures meet the blurred surfaces of memory, water in all its states becoming the album’s temporal architecture: snow turning to stream, ice to echo, the past both fixed and fluid. These slow […]
Ellen Fullman’s Elemental View feels like standing inside a lucid dream made of tone. Performed on her monumental Long String Instrument in collaboration with The Living Earth Show, the work spans six movements that unfold with glacial clarity and architectural grace. It’s not just that the sound is immersive—it’s that the instrument itself is a […]
“Screen Test” hovers in the space between memory and illusion, part of the soundtrack for Ken Jacobs’ In the Depth of Illusion: A Soundtrack for Nervous Magic Lantern. Whirring electronics shift between whimsical and ominous, threading through a haze of cassette hiss and field-recorded fragments. Static acts as a tactile surface, a sonic web that […]
Gray resonance forms a living wall on “c0n73x7_c0ll4p53” from Yann Novak’s forthcoming album, Continuity. Loops of field recordings and synthetic tones seep into one another, layering like opaque filters over gravitation pulses and a vanishing image. The piece unfolds slowly, but nothing stays still, meaning slips sideways, cloaked in the very textures that seem to […]