Strange storytelling, field recordings dusted in gray, gentle melancholy strings, and tribal electronic rhythms, meet stuttering voices and spell casting as sing-songing in a realm of wondrous enchantment.
Reviews
Neutrino Effect :: They Shall Bring Death Upon Us (Labile)
Guitar serves as a central thread throughout They Shall Bring Death Upon Us, reinforcing its industrial-rock foundation without overshadowing the electronics. Instead, it cuts through the mix as a defining presence, driven by distortion, rhythmic decay, and patterns that accumulate weight as they unfold.
Anorak :: Convolve EP (Defunkt)
This is music pushing impetus and intention to the extreme, gluing together gorilla-XX fury, experimentation and possibility at the very tip of collapsibility and ruin, remaining just faithful enough to sanity to preserve its musical heart.
Charlie May :: Trusted Farms (A Strangely Isolated Place)
Trusted Farms retains something of that freedom. It carries it into music that feels more physical, driven by rhythm, repetition and synthesizers with weight, friction and substance. Many parts were played live and barely edited. Lines are doubled, distorted, recorded again, sent through other machines. They remain recognizable. They keep some of their roughness. They breathe. Perhaps this is where the most beautiful part of the album lies.
Bluhm :: Signals in the Static (handstitched*)
Signals in the Static unfolds like a woven sonic blanket, warm and enveloping, as celestial voices drift, synths sway, and surreal blooms of ambient flutter shift and reshape across twelve pieces that feel more like soundtracks to life than a collection of tracks simply packaged together.
Interdimensional Warlock :: Castlevania Vibes EP (Pretension)
Two originals, three remixes, five cuts of finely engineered funk. Interdimensional Warlock takes familiar electro ingredients, wires them to a dirty great bassline and sets the whole lot loose after dark. Get your stank face on.
Chris Herbert :: Grisaille (Room40)
Chris Herbert’s Grisaille is a haunting journey through grainy ambient textures, fractured memories and shadowy soundscapes where beauty emerges from the dust of decaying dreams.
Bibio & Dorian Concept :: Answers (Warp)
What Answers pulls off, mostly, is conjuring a nostalgic feeling attached to nothing specific. Tape hiss, degraded loops, half-remembered melodic phrases, none of it points at an actual memory. It just borrows the texture of one and hands it to you empty, letting you fill in whatever it’s supposed to be about. That’s a strange trick for two artists to pull off together, especially two who built this thing without ever being in the same room.
Markus Mehr :: WATERSHED EP (Hidden Shoal)
In WATERSHED, Markus Mehr transforms recordings from the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine into an unsettling meditation on war, distance, and the responsibility of listening when looking away is always an option.
Trudi Veremu :: Modulisme Session 145 (Modulisme)
Trudi Veremu turns the vintage EMS VCS4 into a voice of her own, blending freeform vocals, experimental electronics, and diasporic memory into an intimate exploration of sound, identity, and the unpredictable relationship between artist and instrument.
Shane Morris :: Tenochtitlan To Etzanoa (Spotted Peccary Music)
Tenochtitlan to Etzanoa is a mesmerizing sonic odyssey through ancient Mesoamerican and Indigenous American spiritual worlds, weaving ritual percussion, haunting flutes, deep chants, and atmospheric electronics into a transcendent journey where ancestral traditions, cultural connections, and shamanic mysteries echo across time and space.
Recent Posts
The Winter Residence :: How the Night Falls (Self Released)
Neutrino Effect :: They Shall Bring Death Upon Us (Labile)
Anorak :: Convolve EP (Defunkt)
Autechre :: Live @ Cabaret Aléatoire, Marseille (Oct 13, 2026)
Charlie May :: Trusted Farms (A Strangely Isolated Place)
Bluhm :: Signals in the Static (handstitched*)
Interdimensional Warlock :: Castlevania Vibes EP (Pretension)
Chris Herbert :: Grisaille (Room40)
