Loess :: Burrows (Listen & Purchase) The arrival of Burrows, an archaeology of Loess spanning 2000-2008, is salutary. It’s not just that Clay Emerson and […]
Reviews
V/A :: An Anthology Of Chinese Experimental Music 1992-2008 (Sub Rosa)
(September 2009) While music has evolved tremendously over the years, listening to this Anthology of Chinese Experimental Music perhaps references that essential link to Ling […]
Poordream :: Immaterial Monarch (Spectraliquid / 33)
(September 2009) Although John Valasis has worked for several years as a producer and mixing engineer for a number of artists Immaterial Monarch sees the […]
Cluster & Eno :: s/t (Sky)
(September 2009) Cluster came into being in 1968 and would go from strength to strength following their association with English musician Brian Eno. This collaborative […]
Mika Vainio :: Black Telephone of Matter (Touch)
(September 2009) Probably best known as half of electronic experimentalists Pan Sonic, Mika Vainio also records under his own name as well as Philus and […]
N-Type :: Rinse: 09 (Rinse)
(August 2009) I should have known. After months of scouring dubstep radio shows, blogs, and reviews, I had begun to filter out all the stuff […]
David Sylvian :: Manafon (Samadhisound)
(August 2009) David Sylvian’s career has spanned a thirty-year period, initially finding its way through the popular New Romantic movement with the band Japan. Sylvian […]
Lokai :: Transition (Thrill Jockey)
(August 2009) Lokai’s second album appears to throw everything into the intellectual pot, leaving us a taste of deliciously ordered chaos wrapped in a warm, […]
David Daniell & Douglas McCombs :: Sycamore (Thrill Jockey)
Guitars weave complexity in their strings for yet another astonishing project. A first recorded collaboration between two known experimental artists, Daniell and McCombs, the work […]
Xurba :: Euphoria Industries Inc. (Electric Studios)
This latest 2009 release see’s Xurba offer up seventeen flighty tracks of reflective spheres, the quality of such sounds would denote that Will Brazier-Smith, as […]
Ard Bit :: Spanon (Symbolic Interaction)
(August 2009) Ard Bit is on to something. His latest album, Spanon, is sort of an electro-dubstep crossover record, and there’s something about it that […]

















