(January 2010) Okay; so I’ve been more than a little lax recently – hey, life intrudes sometimes on the life of a critic. But I’m […]
Author: Jericho Maxim
Vladislav Delay :: Tummaa (Leaf)
(October 2009) Well, I’m confounded. I don’t know what to make of this record. I’ve been a Delay fan almost since the start, in all […]
Dntel :: Early Works for Me If It Works For You I & II, Something Always Goes Wrong (Phthalo)
(October 2009) What an embarrassment of riches this package is. Bringing back into print two essential mid-90’s IDM near-classics, this package adds a third disc […]
Creamy Water Quiz :: Flojo, Loco y Enigmatico (Infinite Number of Sounds)
(July 2009) I got passed a demo from this Michigan duo a couple of years ago and was quietly blown away by it. 70 minutes […]
Retic :: Somnolent Massive (Mute Rebellion)
(July 2009) Back in 2007, I praised Retic for their debut album, Saturn Day Trajectory for its tricky interleaving of keen beats and sly sine-wave […]
SubtractiveLAD, Plastik Joy and Last Days reviews (n5MD)
(July 2009) This latest crop of releases from n5md puts them near the top of my favorite indie labels. With a strong catalog featuring Lights […]
The Bureau of Nonstandards :: s/t (OneZero)
(July 2009) Here’s one that I’ve put off trying to write about because I’m just not that taken with it. The Bureau of Nonstandards is […]
Harmonic 313 :: When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence (Warp)
(03.31.09) Global Communications’ resident wizard Mark Pritchard (Tom Middleton is GC’s resident sorcerer) returns to us with a new album from a new alias (a […]