Cradling an electric guitar run through filters and effects, its two parts, approximately twenty-four and seventeen minutes long, respectively, are simple, smooth and enchanting. Glowing […]
Author: Stephen Fruitman
Markus Mehr :: Off (Hidden Shoal)
Mehr begins his sortie with an impeccably woven ambient tapestry, braiding threads from the two previous releases into an utterly transportive synthesizer line shrouded with […]
Stroon :: Triple Farewell (Exitab)
Bouncing around this Manichean soundworld are Stroon’s diminutive melodies, played on vibraphone and tinkly-tronics. Stroon’s Triple Farewell is a peculiar juxtaposition of waves of soft, […]
Docetism :: Endura (Bunkier Productions)
Endura breathes, sighs, sinks its feet into the sand, fills its mind with sublunary profundity. Docetism is a project inspired by some of the earliest […]
Aus :: ReCollected (Plop)
ReCollected is that rare beast, a remix of the hard work of a diverse range of artists that plays with utter coherency. Absolutely the best remix […]
Exael :: Ghost Hologram (Beer on the Rug)
Exael excels in combining the best attributes of ambient, classic electronica and lo-fi aesthetics into a unique, pastoral, pastel vision. Tumbling, tumbling, ever tumbling, Ghost […]
Left Hand Cuts Off the Right :: Goma (Must Die)
Although recorded in London and Poland, his mind seems to be somewhere in Nirvana with visions of gamelan bells dancing in his head. A gruesome […]
Ürlich Uhrlich :: Kosmotron II (Striate Cortex)
A double diamond of sonic spelunking. Ürlich Uhrlich is the krautastic alias (could be interpreted as “primordial watch-light”) under which English underground rhythmist Michael Clough […]
Untide :: Untide (Somehow)
Untide unfolds with an air of ambivalent exotica, conjuring a carefree Shangri-La where shady figures lurk in some of its downtown backstreets. Billowing into view, […]
Daniel Thomas & Kevin Sanders :: Transit Timing Variations (Sheepscar Light Industrial)
With some beautiful music of the spheres eventually arising out of drone and whirr, perhaps the spirit of the original Kepler was leaning over their […]
















