[Julien Demoulin & IA :: The Bay on Basses Frequences]—A cyberspace collaboration devoted to a real place. Julien Demoulin resides far from it in France […]
Author: Stephen Fruitman
Akumu :: Between Worlds (Spider)
A gripping take on an inevitability, executed with great inner consistency and coherency. [Release page] ”Exploring a moment between living and not,” Deane Hughes of […]
Caaldruun :: Headstone (Fox Den)
The grinding of pockmarked millstones, smashing electricity between unforgiving surfaces, spitting out sparks, sucked into a wind tunnel, scattered. [Release page] As Caaldruun, New Yorker Erik […]
Pinkcourtesyphone :: Foley Folly Folio (Line Segments)
This is a plush, original ambient album. Richard Chartier develops his themes luxuriously and unsettlingly. A Barbie doll whose eyes follow you around the room […]
Hervé Moire :: Mirage de Loire (Aposiopèse)
Hervé Moire recorded a pastoral stretch of the longest river in France and fed it into his computer, the digital equivalent of a hydroelectric dam, […]
DeWalta :: Wander (Haunt Music)
Catchy, accessible yet with a tartness to tantalize the most sophisticated palate, Wander pays out escalating returns with each new listen. [Release page] This masterful debut long-player […]
Illl vs. Irma :: 10-15 mA (Soun)
Dream pop and nightmare scenarios seep into each other to their mutual benefit resulting in an hour-long tone poem in a hundred monochrome shades. The […]
Batida :: Batida (Soundway)
An action-packed, succinct thirty-five minutes, it’s one of those rare dance records that sounds just as great at home because there’s just too much going […]
Coppice Halifax :: Multi-review (Milieu Music)
In contrast to a number of other artists who release untold amounts of studio material, Coppice Halifax displays a real duty of care to his […]
Me Raabenstein :: All These Precious (nonine)
Although the twentieth production Raabenstein has been involved in, All These Precious is only his second strictly solo album. It ventures a rich, engrossing and […]














