Foxy Digitalis
Stinging perceptions are blurred into decayed concrete corridors, and cracked pastel paint falls to the ground in small pieces. The latest from Pinkcourtesyphone is a fragmentary dreamscape baked into a grayscale void. Subatomic rumbles become moving foundations, eluding the rising layers of desolate drones. Everything here is a memory we’re trying to forget, but the […]
I feel like I get bleak as hell in these intros a lot of the time, so I’m going to try and stop doing that. I know things are brutal (and something genuinely new and horrible seems to happen every day), but y’all can get that anywhere. So, I’m trying. First, this week’s Songs of Our […]
Frayed imagery and blurred tones swirl into symbiotic shapes in the opening breaths of “Spectral Flux.” Immediately, we’re immersed in this gauzy soundworld, floating in grayscale ephemera, untethered from everything. Chris Herbert and Elias Merino tread into the black water, cutting sounds of rain with hollowed-out drone stretches that feign at a prismatic sparseness, but […]
On this episode of the Foxy Digitalis Podcast, I basically talk about myself. I published the big year-end article on the site yesterday, so if you missed it – go check it out! This episode, though, is a recap of the things I was up to with my own work this year, including new albums, […]
Well, we made it. Sort of. I mean, it’s not like this arbitrary changing of the year is going to change, well, anything, but it still feels like we’ve crawled over some kind of finish line. As I say just about every year, what an incredible year of music. This list will be incomplete every […]
Celer molds the sound of water into an immersive sonic environment on “Superannuated Blinks of a Otherwise Forgotten Pond,” the first spell from his upcoming album, Cursory Asperses. Submerged textures give way to a liminal resonance, drawing us closer to the sound’s inner source. Celer’s music is shapeshifting. Glowing chord progressions feel like they’re breathing as […]
Dual, sharp melodies move at diverging angles as guitarists Liam Keenan and David Grubbs cut out messages in the clay Earth. Ephemeral growls stitch together sonic constellations with subtle screams and textural drones, an ever-shifting palette that pulls us closer to the core of this music with each passage. A world of steel-eyed contrasts emerges […]
Fluid dreams take on tactile timbres on Hand to Earth’s gorgeous “Mokuy.” The quintet of Daniel Wilfred, David Wilfred, Aviva Endean, Sunny Kim, and Peter Knight sculpt vibrations from the ether into gently soaring soundscapes, riding woodwind waves beyond the horizon, buoying spiraling, utterly captivating vocal melodies. “Mokuy” pulls dancing patterns from the air and […]
Panghalina is the trio of Maria Moles, Bonnie Stewart, and Helen Svoboda, and on “Glass Lake,” immateriality finds solidity. Svoboda and Stewart’s swirling vocal waves swim around one another, leading us down an aqueous, amorphous pathway lined in glowing specters. A wash of synth textures rises through the undercurrents, their shapes moving in slow motion […]