A descent, yes, but definitely some ascension in amongst the charcoal clad visage of man, and his machine. It’s not easy forming sentences in 35°C […]
Tag: Abstract
Xex :: Xex:Change (Dark Entries)
A new wave narrative is at the heart of their sound, a fresh faced exuberance coupled with a critical eye. Experimental, intelligent and a tad […]
Near Paris / I Signori Della Galassia :: Double review (Medical)
For Medical Records’ latest, the Seattle label has stayed close to home, heading to Ohio for Near Paris, before heading further afield to Italy for […]
Stroon :: Triple Farewell (Exitab)
Bouncing around this Manichean soundworld are Stroon’s diminutive melodies, played on vibraphone and tinkly-tronics. Stroon’s Triple Farewell is a peculiar juxtaposition of waves of soft, […]
Nocturnal Emissions :: Accumulator (We Can Elude Control)
Accumulator gives voice to an age of social division and economic deprivation, collapse of the factory town alongside the dissection of the countryside. These tracks […]
Metropolis :: A Machine of Desire / The Flood (Sequencias)
Undefined shapes mix with familiar echoes before waves of the new wash away these scraps of recognition. Mind the gap as you pass into Metropolis. […]
Flint Kids :: Day Nil EP (Abstrakt Reflections)
Featuring remixes by c0ma, Sgure, Randomform and VNDL—all with their own unique tangents on the title track and “Congealed”—Abstrakt Reflections segues into cohesively disjointed electronics that […]
[PHYSICS] :: Spectramorphic Iridescence (Digitalis)
When listening to Spectramorphic Iridescence one consistently gets the impression that we’re mining a previously untapped vein of lost archival tracks, as if there’s an […]
Mark O’Leary & Erdem Helvacioğlu :: Istanbul (TIBprod. Italy)
A discreet, but colorful whole, a stream of consciousness both as concrete as a cobblestone and light as a breeze off the saline sea. If […]
Leonid :: Midas (Photic Fields)
Rather than an outright explosion of fervor, Leonid ponders before adding the next shade to his sound—methodically he constructs, positioning accompaniments before the true form […]
















