Stirring sounds are subtly built, expressive tones painted with tender touches and full drum patterns. Montreal’s Forbidden Planet has had more than an impressive start. […]
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Ákos Garai :: The Imagined River (Kaon)
Evoking the fog of ghosts hovering over the pale grey fields of asphodel, the realm of dreams. With its nineteenth recording, “La Rivière” keeps on […]
Tlön :: Truth In The 13th (Birkhouse)
A whirred world of kinetic scree slopes with synthetic colourings. ‘Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius’ (1962) is a Jorge Luis Borges parable, in which an article about […]
Teppana :: Hento (Somehow)
For their debut EP, Finland’s Teppana opens small and politely, a Baroque music box nestled among curly fallen leaves playing for an audience perched on […]
Anklebiter :: Weight of a Pronoun (The Crime League)
Portland, Oregon based Tanner Volz, aka Anklebiter, wants you to know that without his collaborators, Weight of a Pronoun wouldn’t have happened. “I doubt I […]
Costelloe :: Solar Code (Signal Code)
Costelloe gazes back to the 1990s. Within the traditions of Warp, GPR and New Electronica, Solar Code takes an emotive and soulful view of machine […]
Francesco Giannico & Theo Allegretti :: Flow Signs (Oak Editions/Monkey)
Allegretti improvises a soothing melody up against Giannico’s quietly soaring guitar. Francesco Giannico and Theo Allegretti pose the “riddle of the mood” (as their final […]
KiloWatts :: Seven Succulents (KiloWatts Music)
Seven Succulents is probably KiloWatts’ most accomplished work to date, an impressive achievement given his uniformly excellent back catalog. Imagine, if you will, that you’re […]
Crash Course in Science & Psyche :: Double review (Dark Entries)
I sadly missed Dark Entries label boss Josh Cheon on his recent visit to Madrid. We made the plans, but they fell through; the best […]
Origamibiro :: Odham’s Standard (Denovali)
Odham’s Standard is uncanny as a sight of a deceased loved one’s hazy reflection in the windowpane, and warm and unforgettable as a short reunion […]
Huerco S. :: Colonial Patterns (Software)
That rare combination of intellectual stimulus and visceral irresistability. A colonial pattern is the cooperative formation of complex patterns, like the snowflakes drifting earthwards to […]

















