A luxurious, active listening success. “Discreet Music” (1975) filled the first side of the album of the same name on Brian Eno’s short-lived Obscure Records label. A creative paradigm […]
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Rapoon :: Song from the End of the World (Glacial Movements)
If the sound of the Big Bang can still be heard by tapping into cosmic radiation, then perhaps the song sung at the end of […]
Olga Wojciechowska :: Maps And Mazes (Time Released Sound)
Maps and Mazes, her first solo album, is a collection of truly sublime pieces from a generous handful of these concordances. The search for connectivity and reciprocity stands boldly […]
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Dozens of small dramas are being played out in a dense, urban setting festooned with shockingly green treetops. On the streets and in the stations, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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