(Mood Starters) is a dark, hypnotic, and eerie techno-ish industrial album surrounded by dystopian themes of a humanity trapped in an uncertain future, standing before unspeakable malefic forces.
Reviews
Mana ERG :: Concealed Under A Strange Tongue (XBDA)
Concealed Under A Strange Tongue suggests an elegant, diversified, and pleasant listening experience where meandering emotional chords meet spacious ambient electronica, processed field recordings, occasional sampled voice elements with a near new-age tone, and a neo-psychedelic/cosmic Americana feeling (for the sunlit psych-country-esque guitar sequences), along with near Steve Tibbetts-influenced mystic grooves.
Billion One :: Hi Cozy Paradise (Woodland Creatures)
Such a fitting title for Billion One’s latest on Woodland Creatures’ Biome series—every release connected to one of Earth’s distinct bioregions and ecosystems. These sonic windows shift with every listen, drifting and cascading with restless energy, layered vocal manipulations, and deeply infectious grooves.
ENV(itre) :: Prysmaen Tales (Detroit Underground)
Prysmaen Tales bridges eras without straddling them awkwardly. It honors the introspective depth of classic IDM while moving forward on its own terms. For anyone who’s been following Majewski since the early DETUND years, this is exactly the kind of return worth waiting for.
Black Brunswicker :: Dreams of a Sunflower River (Nettwerk)
The songs flow right into each other and are only composed of what seems to be a few layers each, but there is a fond fuzziness to them, that glistens like the light reflected off the water. There is a slight melancholy tinge to the music, but it’s not overpowering.
Dimitar Dodovski :: Sculptures in Time (Shimmering Moods)
Despite a multiplicity of aggregated elements and cascading effects, the general mood of Sculptures in Time remains cohesive and mysteriously flowing, with deeply transportive sequences working as an evocative mind trip.
Josh Mason :: Kicking A Dark Horse (greyfade)
These releases are not merely containers for music. They are thoughtfully conceived artistic objects that extend, deepen, and enrich the listening experience. They are works meant to be lived with, revisited, displayed, and cherished. Josh Mason’s Kicking A Dark Horse, the third installment in the label’s FOLIO format, may be the clearest realization yet of that philosophy.
Snowbeasts & Solypsis :: The Portent (Component)
For The Portent, Snowbeasts (Robert Galbraith and Elizabeth Virosa) drive punishing beats and low-end pressure, while Virosa’s drifting vocal lines remain suspended throughout. In contrast, James Miller’s Solypsis continually splinters structure, reshaping corrupted rhythms into unpredictable forms.
Multiplex :: Human, I Love You (w/ Remixes) (Clean Error)
Christian and Roland Dormon arrive to Atlanta-based Clean Error Records for their latest release as Multiplex, and their labelmates give them a welcome-to-the-neighborhood basket brimming with solid remixes.
Caural :: Aura (Prism92)
Aura leans more toward the hip-hop beat era than straight IDM, experimental in spirit, with enough left-field nuance that it resists being filed simply as instrumental hip-hop. It’s a document of a producer figuring out his own DNA in real time, two decades before anyone thought to look back and call it influential.
Camcussion :: More Sprouted Lentils (Detroit Underground)
More Sprouted Lentils is Camcussion operating at full capacity—hardware-driven, unpredictable, and completely unconcerned with playing it safe. In a genre that can sometimes mistake complexity for depth, Doig’s instinct for fun is his sharpest tool.
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