Homesongs is a cohesive collection of craft-based and subversive industrial sketches, a menacing cinematic orchestration which relates to our post-modern days at its stage of […]
Author: Philippe Blache
Snowbeasts :: Survival (M-Tronic)
The agitated, menacing tripped out sound sculptures of Survival seem to invite the listener to enter a vast post-industrial dystopian universe dominated by machines and technological […]
Atrium Carceri, Cities Last Broadcast, God Body Disconnect :: Miles To Midnight (Cryo Chamber)
Stylistically we are still wandering on the subterranean and cinematographic dark ambient territory but this collaborative album introduces a corpus of new elements taken from […]
SubtractiveLAD :: Valve & Ellipsis double review (Self-released)
Valve and Ellipsis follow a similar musical register where flexible tones, dense layers of sounds and aerial guitars lead the listener to a personal quest, to a feeling […]
Glimlicht :: Expressionistic Chrome (Shimmering Moods)
An absorbing, isolationist and ghostly ambient release that will ravish fans of William Basinski, The Caretaker, and Philip Jeck’s intoxicating, mnemonic electronic melancholia. Tremendously hypnotic […]
Shedir :: Falling Time (Cyclic Law)
Beautifully crafted, fully emotional, spiritually entrancing, intimately moving, seducing, majestic, enveloping and alluring. When I think about female dark ambient artists and projects the first […]
Vlimmer :: IIIIIIII/IIIIIIIII (8 & 9) (Blackjack Illuminist)
As in the previous opus this album is a fine mix of influences coming from cold / dark wave, IDM movements, as well as minimal […]
Displacer :: Missing Warriors (Component)
Plenty of moods, variations and sound colors, timbral exploration make this organic and drone release worth the discovery. Recommended for fans of Robert Henke, Atomine […]
Gouldenberg :: First Expedition (Self-Released)
Soundscapes are constantly imaginative, chilling and menacing, mainly articulated on vintage synthesized-like textures, various electronic manipulations and catchy if not darkly moving melodies. Gouldenberg is […]