Foxy Digitalis
Julie Reich’s (Body Breaks, CHANDRA, etc.) solo guise, Bile Sister, blitzes our memories and energetically bounces us into an angular sonic blender. Basslines dance across the floor, shoulders shaking all the way until we’re stuck in a hypnagogic nightmare. “Generation Steam” is about the oppressive absurdity capitalism subjects us to, turned into a circular sonic […]
Almost a year on from its release, New Chance’s (aka Victoria Cheong) fantastic Real Time continues offering new gifts. “To The Edge” is a standout from the album fueled by dystopic rhythms and subdermal bass lines that build a glossy pedestal for Cheong’s incisive, hypnotic vocal melodies. It’s a song in search of deeper, existential connection; of […]
Victoria Cheong has had a year. Her latest album as New Chance, Real Time, married experimental electronic landscapes with emotional undercurrents shaped by questions about where we belong. Cheong shows such vulnerability on Real Time that it’s hard not to be moved by these sonic reveries. I still find myself drifting back to the album, getting lost in […]
In the opening moments of Victoria Cheong’s latest album as New Chance, there’s a sense of disorientation within the woozy electronic tones of “Eye of the Storm.” Each chord slightly shudders under gentle vibrato, the cadence climbing a rickety ladder against a floating backdrop of her voice in layers and a rising bassline. Questions about […]
One of the first things that comes to mind in the opening, odd-shaped song, “Between the Heart and the Mind” is Ponytail. Body Breaks and Ponytail don’t sound much alike beyond the strange tunings, but the exuberant, infectious energy that permeates every song on Bad Trouble fills a void that Ponytail left. This distant-duo of Matt LeGroulx […]