Foxy Digitalis
Joy Guidry is a beacon. The bassoonist and composer has brought so much light into the world, especially with her last album, Radical Acceptance, and the forthcoming AMEN. “I Will Always Miss You” strips back layers, offering an intimate sonic portrait of letting go, being cared for, and what family means. Quixotic pads underscore her contemplative bassoon […]
Repetitive motions build an effervescence into the blunted crystal timbres of Ukrainian artist Igor Yalivec’s “Petrichor.” Lost in a wash of gentle rain, speculative patterns paint a sonic portrait of quiet movement within the remnants of our memories. Even with the precision of each resonating progression, the looseness underlying “Petrichor” offers a space to lay […]
Intermediate zones bleed into spectral spaces within Joshua Hill and Micaela Tobin’s “Fade Away.” Born in a tent outside Hill’s parent’s home in Arizona, the duo’s Tent Music expands into unfathomable terrain. Forward-marching cadences grow into a ramshackle brilliance, Tobin and Hill’s voices climbing higher through a billowing, existential framework. Basslines find grooves in the echoes atop […]
Lula Asplund and Kyle Bates’s new album, The Matinee, is something of a marvel to me. It’s a long, winding journey that always feels close and vulnerable. There’s something hypnotic in the shifting soundscapes and the way Asplund and Bates help us navigate through the changing aural spaces. Perhaps most remarkable is that it was mostly […]
Nothing like ending Tuesday with your kid spiking a fever, but here we are. Luckily I got all this written (save for this intro) before that happened, so on this week of Bandcamp Friday, I’ve got a pile of gems for you to check out. And, of course, Foxy Digitalis Daily is over on Patreon today (and […]
Vocal silhouettes grow into secret worlds filled with expressive magic on Bailey Miller’s captivating “Into What,” the latest single from her forthcoming debut, Still Water. Unfamiliar landscapes overflow from the corridors built from Miller’s lilting melodies, imbued with a quiet determination to find a forgotten light. Electronics whisper and hum ageless questions and sweet nothings through […]
The shape of the horizon is evolving. Chaz Prymek strings shadows together to uncover the hidden remnants of past lives and alternative memories lost in the ether. Emotive acoustic guitar plucks are searching, emboldened by Prymek’s Fuubutsushi bandmate Patrick Shiroishi’s saxophone motifs and their whimsical restraint. Birds sing. Clouds grow. Inside tiny moments, expansive landscapes […]
Greeted by sheets of warm, fuzzy guitar chord progressions, Allison Lorenzen’s “Vale” is a tight embrace during the darkest moments before dawn breaks. Repeating melodies swirl like passing ghosts as her voice slithers between emotive, coalescing arrangements. Archaic rituals trickle through the aural stones and grow into a gravitational aura of countless phantoms. The video […]
Joy Guidry’s work has a cathartic power to it that condenses into heavy, affecting passages that spill into the air from every direction. Guidry’s forthcoming album, Radical Acceptance, is a journey and on the first single, “Inner Child,” the past still hurts, but it doesn’t define the next steps forward. In describing their practice of radical […]