While surely stringently composed, the music flows freely. The experience is sort of like wandering through a whitewashed gallery with bold abstracts hanging from its […]
Author: Stephen Fruitman
Fovea Hex :: I:I:XII. Hail Hope (Janet)
The single features “Carol,” just a few, utterly weightless warm breathes in a dark, frozen night, held aloft by Lunny’s viola and violin, and a […]
Szilárd :: Spokes (Palaver Press)
The interpolation of recital and instrumental is intended as dialogue, making Baudelaire’s text an appropriate choice, with all of its juxtapositions, his universe of violence […]
Vizion Centaur :: Epochalypse (I, Absentee)
Each of the thirty-minute pieces is the soundtrack to its own eschatological fantasy, music within which to ride into oblivion. Imagine it all ending neither […]
Nettle :: El Resplandor: The Shining in Dubai (Sub Rosa)
Can a half-hour long album bear the weight of so much conceptual superstructure? It is certainly flawed insofar as, like Dubai, there is such a […]
Colin Andrew Sheffield :: Slowly (Mystery Sea)
Another singular volume in the congenial discography of Mystery Sea, the tiny, perfect Belgian label that lovingly packages each of its CDRs in intriguing abstract […]
Esa Ruoho :: Riversmouth (Attenuation Circuit)
The river’s mouth is where the waterborne silt settles in the delta, a boundary zone between narrow and endless. Before debouching there, Ruoho follows the […]
TheAwayTeam :: Star Kinship (Moamoo)
The charm of this album is hard to resist, like a drive-in B-grade movie that’s far too good to be called a turkey. Brian Eno […]
Xladnokrovie 616 :: Gorod (A Beard of Snails)
Gorod is music for the hazardous zones in our midst through which we only pass quickly and reluctantly. [Releases page] Stark black and white photos […]
Chaim :: Alive (BPitch Control)
One listens way beyond the beat, deep into the nuanced hues that makes this a really distinctive – customized – full-length debut. [Release page] Any […]
















