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 […]
Author: Stephen Fruitman
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 […]
Dub Mentor :: Versions (EnT-T)
Dub Mentor’s warm, peeled-down arrangements, comprised of loping drum loops, chocolatey bass and treated field recordings for texture, lend these tunes the intimacy of late-evening […]
Mirt :: Artificial Field Recordings (Cat Sun)
His sound has the aural texture of a daguerreotype, the mid-nineteenth century photographic process that makes every nuance, every pore so sharp and visible, though […]
Seetyca :: Bleakscapes (Essentia Mundi)
The pieces Seetyca calls Bleakscapes are not grey and barren, they are near impenetrably inky black and evoke scary amounts of space far away from […]
Celestino :: Protector’s Tea (Love All Day)
Six very ecumenical, very clear, consecrated spaces. Just about every belief system has very simply criteria for the creation of sacred space anywhere, anytime—by convening […]