Experimental Electronic Music
Osmium is a feral collision of tribal, guttural, thrash, industrial, and grindcore elements—chaotic, hypnotic, and unrelenting. Featuring Hildur Guðnadóttir, Rully Shbara, James Ginzburg, and Sam Slater, it’s a global sonic ritual that feels like a Dionysian descent into madness. Fourth World music for the damned: raw, electrifying, and anything but safe.
Shoegaze has always been a genre shaped as much by distortion as by definition. Coined—and complicated—by the British music press, the term has been embraced, rejected, and debated by the very bands it aimed to describe. In Shoegaze, music writer Ryan Pinkard explores this hazy history with clarity and curiosity, tracing the genre’s roots through its sounds, scenes, and stories. As a longtime fan, I found his account both illuminating and rewarding—a vital look at a style often heard but rarely explained.
This is one of those zero-word albums made by two guys steeped in the tradition of post-rock experimental ambient, now translating it through slow fretboard rendered textures that evaporate the guitar tone to evanescent foggy residue, perfect for hazy afternoon and late night reveries.
Arrowounds delivers the music, magic and mystery, solidifying the esoteric energies emanated from the underworld into the medium of this album. It’s a perfect soundtrack for getting lost in the labyrinthine depths waiting to be discovered beneath the surface of everyday Ohio and Kentucky.
A new single from The Tear Garden is like a signal from beyond—dark, dreamy, and full of promise. With Astral Elevator arriving October 24th on Artoffact Records, cEvin Key and Edward Kaspel prove they haven’t lost their edge. This track’s pulsing bass, eerie synths, and vivid lyrics capture the spirit of their early work while hinting at something new—and it’s got me ready for the full trip.
Through white noise, thorough in its separation and diffraction of constituent tones, before reprocessing them and sending them back out into an abyss of stars as if these horns are calling to some alien entity or god far beyond the reaches of our usual means of communication.
Such an exploration might seem at first more fitted to harsh noise or the post-industrial genres, but the sounds here are lush and radiant, calming, relaxed. There is the pungent fragrance of death present, but it isn’t cloying, but something familiar and comforting.
By operating outside of the playlist protocol, Big Blood have once again given us something that goes beyond the test of temporary style. This is music for deep listening in the deep time of Deep Maine, and it shall abide.
It’s hard to be cranky when listening to the soothing sounds presented by Michael Grigoni and Pan•American in their first collaboration, New World, Lonely Ride, a journey into the majestic physical landscape of America as well as its grim psychic underside.
My perspective on metallic matters was recently alchemized once again with some new prima materia from Matmos, and their song “The Rust Belt” released with clanging banger of a video by Jack Colbert ahead of the June 20th release of their newest album Metallic Life Review and summer tour.
Coupled with intense rhythmic hooks and jaunty infectious melancholy lyrics, these short sweet pieces make me feel joyful and full of hope, even as the lyrics are moody and depressing.
