(September 2009) THE acoustic environment always presents an alternative and challenging format in which to see a musician’s work stripped bare of its more substantial […]
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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 […]
LOKAI :: The process of discovering something unexpected
Igloo :: Did the group get its name from the type of horse or the Star Trek character? How did you decide on the name? […]
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, […]
ULTRAVOX :: Live in Duisburg, Germany (August 7, 2009)
(August 2009) MOVING into the latter part of 2009, Ultravox’s Return to Eden tour has gathered the kind of momentum that would leave most acts […]
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 […]
DOUG McCOMBS (TORTOISE) :: From bassist, back to basics, and beyond
(August 2009) Douglas McCombs may be a piece of the backbone of the revered experimental rock group, Tortoise, but recently he’s become the flesh and […]
V/A :: Colorfield Variations (Line)
(August 2009) In the late 60s a group of artists moved to expunge the figurative image from their art. Hung up on chromatic abstraction – […]
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 […]
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