Returning late to the table, the drolly titled Easy Listening brings their house style to fruition in mesmeric moves and boundary crossings—a ride that, while not of the […]
Author: Alan Lockett
Farthest South :: Spheres & Constellations Remixes (False Industries)
Here we have substantial retools from Frank Bretschneider, The Sight Below, Maps and Diagrams, and head honcho Yair Etziony himself. Tel-Aviv’s False Industries delivers a […]
Francisco López :: Untitled#281 (Störung)
‘Field recordings are typically viewed and listened to as referential or simulative. My approach with environmental sound matter moves away from this representational perspective and […]
Dalhous :: Will To Be Well (Blackest Ever Black)
Will To Be Well’s combination of stirring lyricism and smudged harmonics tilts the dark v. light face-off of the debut light-wards, yet a river runs […]
ALAN LOCKETT :: Elsewhereness mix
Igloomag’s Alan Lockett alias albient (mixcloud | soundcloud) dials in an ambient-electronic mix. Among its dream-scape streams and aether waves, reverb-trails and echo-veils, feature a number of recently igloo-‘viewed goodies. Here is elsewhereness… […]
Lawrence English :: Wilderness of Mirrors (Room40)
‘We bear witness to the retraction of a great many social conditions and contracts that have previously assisted us in being more humane than the […]
Maps and Diagrams :: Alluvium (Handstitched*)
Textured ambience of particulate detail, awash in harmonic liquid replete with grainy infusions, with Alluvium M&D presumably seeks both to represent and in so doing […]
Kyle Bobby Dunn :: Kyle Bobby Dunn and the Infinite Sadness (Students of Decay)
A triumph not so much of removed authorial ego, but of artful detachment. Purveyor of refined works of ambient minimalism since 2005, Kyle Bobby Dunn dials in […]
Paskine :: NIMROD (Voxxov)
We’re confronted with a seething mass of turmoil of lively raw material of fierce density and unstable formations—iterative flows heaving with an organic-seeming stream of […]
Alex Cobb & Taiga Remains :: Double review (Shelter Press/Helen Scarsdale Agency)
Taiga Remains’ ghost walks amongst us, the last hurrah having come some five years back with the blown-out drone of Wax Canopy (Digitalis), while plain old Alex Cobb […]
Benjamin Finger :: The Bet (Watery Starve)
‘I kind of wanted to break away from the way I think an ambient/modern classical (or whatever we call it these days) record should sound […]

















