It is always an unmitigated pleasure to enter this house and warm oneself by its smoldering sod fire. Having reviewed well nigh everything Fovea Hex […]
Author: Stephen Fruitman
Astrowind :: Semikarakory (Frozen Light)
Unresolved tension is the interpretive fog that cannot be penetrated by even the most intent listener. Ambivalence is the stuff of which the thick impasto of Semikarakory […]
Blackwood :: As the World Rots Away (Subsound)
As the World Rots Away is a poison pen letter to optimists, written in guitar, electronics and percussion, cohesively rancorous but also beautifully varied and lucid […]
Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus :: Beauty Will Save the World (Occultation)
Beauty is created in the meeting of our understanding with our imagination; an album like Beauty Will Save the World may not save the world, but surely helps enchant it. […]
Ocoeur :: Reversed (n5MD)
Ocoeur turns back time, piano tastefully graced with soft field samples, a flute, a violin, daubing a vivid, moderately Celtic landscape where sheep may safely graze. The not-so chance […]
Double Review :: The Sand Rays / Ray Sands (CEIL)
Both are mysterious discs—looped, concrète, ambivalent, ambient and transportive. No trainspotter I, but old steam engines still conjure romance for me, especially caked matt black with the grease […]
Celer :: Akagi (Two Acorns)
Floating like the wisp of smoke coming off a stick of incense, Agaki curls and intertwines at the behest of small changes in the air. Your present […]
Rapoon :: Seeds in the Tide Volume 04 (Zoharum)
Some pieces expand like lungs filling with fresh air, others get the wind sucked right out of them. And of course Rapoon also drifts far, far away… […]
Pinkcourtesyphone & Gwyneth Wentink :: Elision (Farmacia901)
The finest kind of acoustic-electronic collaboration, only nineteen minutes long but destined for endless repeat. When I reviewed Pinkcourtesyphone’s Foley Folly Folio, I thought it was […]
DJ Krush :: Butterfly Effect (Es-U-Es / Vinyldigital.de)
In an interview, Ishi referred to the profound effect the 2011 earthquake and tsunami had on him, on all his countrymen. “You know, you can lose […]
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