A finely wrought working of materials drawn from the drone-ambient-postrock depository into a coherent flow that feels both of and apart from its tributaries. The […]
Author: Alan Lockett
Pausal :: Forms (Barge)
Forms rather takes their patented minimalist romanticism and overlays components more subtly suggestive of biotic patterns and cycles, setting up a fine balance—of experimentation and […]
Kyle Bobby Dunn :: Bring Me The Head of Kyle Bobby Dunn (Low Point)
There seem to be more vertiginous twists, added dimensions, not deriving from textural or instrumental paradigm shift, more from long steeping in the same materials, […]
Steve Roden & Machinefabriek :: Lichtung (Eat, Sleep, Repeat)
Ultimately, Lichtung‘s places remain elusive fragments, memory residue, illusory referents of the intangible drift of the music and its field infusions. [Release page] On returning […]
Tidal & Atlantis :: Double review (Chemical Tapes)
The new wave of cassette underground, for all its freeform and fertile energy, sometimes seems to have spawned a twilight world crawling with a mass […]
Pjusk & Retina.it :: Double review (Glacial Movements)
Glacial Movements has not been entirely unwavering in its frozen isolationist brief. In terms of its original ambit, targeting ‘places that man has forgotten…icy landscapes…fields […]
Minus Pilots :: Hitting Up The Heavens (Eat, Sleep, Repeat)
Hitting Up The Heavens mostly does little other than drift and pulse gently in a kind of fragmented fluttering, fibrillating, serpentine, glassine motion pool (and […]
Sam Rosenthal :: The Passage (Projekt)
Audio waves swell and ripple out, no tonal transformations, more minute calibrations; Koan-esque, layers are set in motion and simply left to go with their […]