A true quality imprint, Perth-based Hidden Shoal Recordings doesn’t release reams of material but rather important material. Four, five or six times a year, cultivating […]
Author: Stephen Fruitman
Pillowdiver :: Cassette Recordings (Analogpath)
The sensation of proximity and precision is often dazzling—hiding in his sound hunter’s blind, he has conjured nature unaware of being observed and tethered its […]
Fazio :: Élégie (Faith Strange)
Elégie is music of comfort, succor for the weary and perhaps the lonely. It succeeds in being free and amorphous while instantly accessible and engrossing. […]
Elizabeth Veldon :: A Blasted Victoriana (Dark Meadow)
A tour of her burgeoning but plentiful ouevre is stimulating, impressive, appalling, and appealing, fistfuls of experimental electronica, a penchant for piercing noise but also […]
Kajkyt :: Krst & Krst Remixes (God Records)
Its dark ambience, quasi-Byzantine liturgy and deceptively simple structure have been inspired by Slavic culture, the Orthodox Church and the less sanguine aspect of Jesus, […]
Shackleton :: Music for the Quiet Hour / The Drawbar Organ EPs (Woe To The Septic Heart!)
Despite Shackleton’s fondness for doomsday scenarios, this is one very uplifting collection. The length and width and breadth and grasp of Shackleton is absolutely equatorial. […]
Shlohmo :: Bad Vibes (Friends Of Friends)
Bad Vibes is a collection of colourful, tinplate toy butterflies, whose hinges creak and fly wheels wind down erratically. [Release page] A member of the genial-sounding […]
Alok / Zen Lu :: RedShift (Lona)
RedShift is twenty-two minutes and twenty-two seconds of reaching for the stars, only to be interfered with and buffeted by microwave static. [Release page] Recorded […]