A list of some recent, current and forthcoming titles that are piquing our ears lately—it’s our attempt to point you to some notable releases worth investigating. Following up from earlier this month, there’s still plenty of music to digest among dangling wires and digital waveforms. Here’s another batch of titles worth investigating—each dipping into new [...]
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Riverz End :: Transfer (Lagunamuch)
Time doesn’t seem to have hindered Riverz End’s progress, however, as Transfer is a tranquilized blend of sonic experiments, broken synthesizers, detailed ambience and scattered blips and bleeps.. Time, space, distance and gravitational pulling has Riverz End (Roman Kolesnikov) displaying a new venture into atmospheric electronics via Russia’s Lagunamuch—five years after the release of his [...]
Mike Dunkley & Dalglish :: Double review (Record Label Records)
Jus Forrest dives into Corpus Clock (by Mike Dunkley) and Benacah Drann Deachd (by Dalglish) and uncovers beautiful expeditions into complete heartfelt ambience and a journey that unwinds towards some sparse and even foreboding, yet ever changing landscapes. Both releases are available on Record Label Records. (Mike Dunkley :: Corpus Clock) Mike Dunkley’s debut release [...]
Pete Swanson :: Man With Potential (Type)
It’s not often one can legitimately use the word “unique” to describe a new album these days, but in the case of the mind-bending Man With Potential, having literally heard nothing quite like it before or since, the term is particularly apposite. The Type imprint entered a somewhat frenzied period of activity towards the end [...]
Perispirit :: Spiritual Church Movement (Digitalis)
For a record as borderline obliterated as this there’s a strange warmth that envelops Spiritual Church Movement, much like the sable trimming surrounding the oddly mechanical looking and richly ornamented gold filigree of the Russian Tsar’s skullcap on the front cover. [Release page] What exactly are the ingredients that work together to create a great noise [...]
Kingbastard :: Lost Property (Herb)
Crackling static, digitally manipulated field recordings of birds, lovely chord progressions played on guitar and piano, and pastoral atmospheres await the Lost Property listener. I reviewed Kingbastard’s Brainfunk EP on Herb Recordings back in September 2011, so it seemed a natural thing to investigate his latest release on Herb, Lost Property. Initially, I was quite [...]
JEAN-CLAUDE ELOY :: 4View (Hors Territoires)
Jean-Claude Eloy (b. 1938) is the greatest composer of the past half-century I never heard of. A profound engagement with the Japanese Gagaku orchestra—imperial courtly music—combined with lengthy schooling in the complexity of European modernism has given birth to a style that is all the Frenchman’s own. [February—2012] Jean-Claude Eloy (b. 1938) is the greatest [...]
Hanetration :: Tenth Oar EP (Self-Released)
Pealing away at the edges, twenty-nine minutes briskly float away as distressed electronic crackles, horns, reversed loops, fractured vocal samples and tangled strands cascade in a surreal dreamscape filled with ambiguity. [Release page] Treading the lines between abstract industrialism and textured noise, Hanetration offsets these four self-released audio paintings with field recordings, manipulated glitches and [...]
Oxyd :: Liveforms (Signifier / Aliens Production)
Liveforms remains thoroughly engaged as it elevates thin veils of dark-ambient passages covered in nebulous sheets of chaotic beauty. Oxyd presents a darkened grove of Lifeforms-era FSOL—full ambient propulsion amidst slivers of percussion and meandering solace. Symphonic maneuvers through unlit corridors and a lost world filled with whispered echoes, random vocal samples and Gregorian chants [...]
Lyr :: Lyr (From A Tree)
Static noise is interwoven through clicks’n cuts, manipulated guitars, tribal tentacles, crumbling techno, post-industrial washes and an extreme focus on the obscure craft of darkened tonal activity. Minimalism floating amidst industrial wastelands, broken (African) beats stutter across the landscape. A thin sheet of dust falls upon analog machinery that struggles to find itself in a [...]
Bedawang :: Skin = Deception (Must Die)
Skin = Deception is distinct from the music he has released online—minimal with maximum impact, insidious and scary. [Release page] Must Die Records is a one-year-old English imprint with a smirking red and yellow logo. Although insisting on marketing itself as a noise label, its small but unruly discography features some real finds of truly varied [...]
VNDL :: Something for Someone (Abstrakt Reflections)
Not entirely drenched in diluted noise, each of the six pieces are meticulously threaded with dozens of textured sounds—often crumpling and overlapping each other until they burst. [Release page] Diving head first into a mass of fluctuated guitar plucks, VNDL manipulates everyday sound sources—dabbling into experiments with instruments, broken synthesizers, dizzying beatwork and stormy winds [...]
Charlatan :: Triangles (Digitalis)
Triangles is just an honest to goodness, straight-up electronic record crafted with an ear for layered melody and sparkling effects-work that conjures atmospheres so sublimely heady and uplifting the experience is borderline heavenly. [Release page] The last few years have seen a prodigious influx of new releases mining synthwave and analogue synthesizer worship, many on new labels [...]
Xsoz :: Thoughts in Silence (33)
Thoughts In Silence is a more aggressive and upfront album compared to previous work yet maintains a congruent slice of industrial complexity. [Direct download] If Thoughts in Silence was intended as meditative aural stimuli, it would be very interesting to hear what thoughts in noise would reveal. Perhaps envisioned as an oxymoron, Xsoz‘s latest soundwork [...]