As its lilt, looped from an earlier Milieu album, eddies in the shallows, it gently stirs up the pebbles and grit below. Brian Grainger is […]
Author: Stephen Fruitman
Zurvan :: Chapter IV (Rubber City Noise)
A quiet but restive record, as if its own creation were still unfurling and unsure, understated gothic ambient slowly trying to make shapes out of […]
James Landis :: January Dusk (Cathedral Transmissions)
January Dusk is an attractive combination of the concrete and physical and the unspecific and abstract. On January Dusk, James Landis’ guitar tells brief, allusive […]
Shrine :: Somnia (Cyclic Law)
But though Somnia has its head in the clouds, it drags its tail on the ground, skims the water, passes through the teeth of grinding cogwheels […]
Rapoon :: Seeds in the Tide: Volume 01 (Zoharum)
Few electronic artists have pursued depths as murky as he with such clarity and such a distinct hallmark—Storey the visual artist has created trademark album […]
Parallel Lines :: Infinity (Oxide Tone/Where are My Records)
A deep-tissue brain massage punctuated by masterful acupuncture. Each whack just hits the right power point, and afterward, you feel physically reinvigorated, injected with vitamins […]
Uton & Courtis :: Flokka Kur (Musik Atlach)
The garden of Eden busy being constructed out of heavy gauge iron plate, pipe, copper tubing and steel girders by welders and rivetters, a ramshackle […]
Yuco :: I’m Living with Melancholy in the Fog (Flaming Pines)
Miyazaki plays simple, elegant, actually more optimistic than sorrowful melodies on guitar, piano and sitar, gorgeously perched atop shoreline field recordings captured, looped and layered […]