Experimental Electronic Music
While field recordings of Björk actually picking mushrooms or dancing on her coffee table is perhaps the biggest missed opportunity on Fossora, the opportunity of time that lockdown gave Björk to reconnect with nature, her evolving family and her love of the simple joys of domestic life, have delivered a truly remarkable album.
Such a powerful yet minimalist album, f5point6 successfully traverses the smallest glitch fractures across each of its dozen tracks presented here…
What I like best about this album is that the stories told are all about texture and emotion, sometimes dark and powerful, sometimes delicate yet commanding…
…helping the listener to disconnect from the constant noise in modern life and take solace in the space between—especially with both tracks coming in at over 30 minutes.
Matthew Arnold’s sound has changed since his Toytronic days, although not drastically. The tender melodies of the past remain, the lightness of touch, with innovations in musical design…
You recognize things, and sometimes you don’t; the same thing one has with the real and the virtual. Quiet and pleasant music, perfect pass time music, the soundtrack for modern living.
XZICD is heavily focused on the meaning of memories, dreams, family bonds and if these are truly the characteristics which shapes us, all under a narrative thread that follows the album from beginning to end.
There’s a gritty and nostalgic flare surrounding inurmaul by Cuadroped; downtempo beatwork rolled up into bite size tracks ranging from 60 to 150 seconds is no ordinary feat.
A minimal movement that creates a sense of resolve and peace, like a mantra after a journey through the dark night of the soul.
We Are Robots provides plenty of brittle collisions and polished sonic artifacts with curious melodies and briskly shuffled rhythms…
Ravaged clicks and mangled machinery aplenty, Conder-Rhyptik packs a baffling punch to the senses; an impenetrable sonic foray sitting comfortably on the outer edges of an expanding universe
