Foxy Digitalis
The odd juxtaposition of imagery and sound in Rrose Defoix’s “Blurb Flu” video is emblematic of the music as a whole. On a surface level, it leaves me disoriented and confused – in a good way – but as I travel further into its sonic cracks, some kind of sense crystallizes. Even while I lose […]
It’s time to get crunched. Fugue State angles toward the ground floor with stochastic rhythms and jagged guitar textures. Throughout “Facts,” an underlying gust of broken glass arrays is overrun by distorted chord progressions and ramshackle reverie. “Just give me the facts, I said!” Shane Bruno demands, a blistering urgency growing as the growling basslines […]
A beguiling combination of blown-out, stochastic rhythms and traditional folk-infused strings pulls back a mythical curtain on “Guidance.” Ruah (aka Benjamin Schurr) takes the opening and drives it into the outer sonic reaches, with globular basslines hypnotizing us while he paints affecting, soaring melodies with his voice. The production and songwriting have an epic quality, […]
Walking sharp edges back from the brink becomes a finely-tuned machine on the volatile catharsis of Luna Honey’s “Smirk.” Lead songwriter Maura Pond rains fire across the solid concrete sonic foundations, buoyed by Kamyar Arsani’s explosive daf rhythms. Pond’s voice glows like a specter pulling the strings of this angular puppet show, hanging above the […]