Presence operates in the inbetween between unresolved and resolution, flirting with the chill charms of the unpitched then back, finding refuge in more comfily pitched […]
Reviews
Pete Swanson :: Man With Potential (Type)
It’s not often one can legitimately use the word “unique” to describe a new album these days, but in the case of the mind-bending Man […]
Mendel Kaelen :: A Secret Birth (Twisted Tree Line)
A Secret Birth—guess whose—is based on late nineteenth-century Swiss composer Charles Haenni’s setting of Stabat Mater, a Marian hymn which has been varied by dozens […]
Bitwise :: Better Luck Next Time (System)
Elements of clean-cut techno, downtempo and ambient are smothered with a layer of instrumental pop, loosened synths, emotive strings and lyrical lava-flows that form wide […]
Noiko :: Honey (Etalabel)
Small specialist Polish imprint Etalabel is dedicated to debuting young, domestic electronic artists and packaging them with an eye on quality. Refreshigly, its owner’s philosophy is that […]
Rudawoda feat. O. Lubencov :: Wiatr (Turbinicarpus)
This mutely eloquent soundtrack to perniciousness, improvised live on analogue synthesizer and bass guitar, conveys a scene of post-Soviet dilapidation and exudes bitter abjection. [Release […]
Subject / Human Dance :: The (Almost) Insanely Happy EP (EE Tapes)
EE Tapes peer down a number of avenues—looking at electronics, industrial, synth wave and more. For some twenty-five years the label has been releasing sounds […]
Lubomyr Melnyk :: The Voice of Trees (Hinterzimmer)
The sheer physical performance of the pianist is awesome, but would not be more than a footnote if it weren’t such a triumph. Its flight […]
Perispirit :: Spiritual Church Movement (Digitalis)
For a record as borderline obliterated as this there’s a strange warmth that envelops Spiritual Church Movement, much like the sable trimming surrounding the oddly […]
Sean Byrd :: Always Was (Plastic Sound Supply)
The emotional swells and transitions Byrd builds into his tracks sometimes lead to moments of pure transcendence, too, as on the album’s aptly-titled closer “Something […]
IG88 :: A Loom & Not Me (Nueva Forma)
Fans of early-era Merck and the current chills of Aleph Zero will take solace in these relaxed audio movements. It seems like just the other […]
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