A gorgeous record that is sometimes hypnotic, commanding your full attention, and at other times fades into a subconscious place—an ambiance befitting the ambient genre. […]
Author: Elan Samuel
Everyday Dust & [MIIIIM] :: Terra Ephemera (Sparkwood)
“This is not a dystopian album. It’s an anti-dystopian album.” You might be wondering, as I did when I first read that line, how an album […]
Everyday Dust :: Further Studies Beyond Decay (Sparkwood)
Further Studies Beyond Decay maintains my view that Sparkwood has a host of visionary artists at their fingertips, as comfortable stringing together grooves that bounce […]
Understated Theory :: Critical Drift EP (Sparkwood)
Understated Theory’s 2015 EP, Critical Drift, is another example of the fine ears on the folks at Sparkwood Records. Must be something special about the […]
Dean De Benedictis :: Salvaging The Present (Spotted Peccary Music)
It’s almost like Salvaging the Present is a journal of De Benedictis’s travels, a collection of discarded sounds and ideas brought together to paint outlines of […]
Everyday Dust :: The Green Decay (Sparkwood)
Combining outdoor recordings with retro synths and epic chord progressions, The Green Decay is an homage to the sounds of the 80s and horror fiction that […]