Clouth threads precision engineering through moments of volatility, never allowing complexity to collapse into clutter. Each track on Cicada feels both autonomous and interlocked, contributing to a broader arc that moves from propulsion to release.
Tag: Avant-Garde
Shane Parish :: Autechre Guitar (Palilalia)
Gratitude feels like the right place to begin—because without a chance introduction decades ago, this remarkable record might never have found its way into the world.
Susumu Yokota :: Laputa: Skintone Edition Vol. 1 (Lo Recordings)
Lo Recordings’ reissue of Susumu Yokota’s Laputa resurrects a long-mythic masterpiece of Japanese electronic music—an uncompromising, genre-dissolving vision that drifts from ambient and electro-acoustic collage to jazz-inflected and ritualistic sound worlds with breathtaking imagination.
Philippe Petit :: The Acoustic Cornet, an hommage to Leonora Carrington (Mahorka)
After first encountering Philippe Petit through The Haunting Triptych (2010), The Acoustic Cornet—released by Mahorka as a tribute to Leonora Carrington—emerges as a radical electro-acoustic work of abstract, collage-driven experimentation that fuses manipulated objects, elastic electronics, and avant-garde improvisation into a richly unpredictable sonic experience.
Akhira Sano :: Fading (ato.archives)
Akhira Sano transforms a soon-to-be-demolished family home into a fragile, room-by-room sound diary, shaping its creaks, air, and fading resonance into an intimate work of environmental memory.
Antonio Gallucci :: Hope for Nothingness as Something (Dinzu Artefacts)
Antonio Gallucci’s Hope for Nothingness as Something unfolds a luminous, meditative sonic theater, where meticulous avant-garde textures and subtle micro-intervals create an elusive ballet of sound and reflection.
Sinemis :: Farewell (Injazero)
Blending prog electronic tension, restrained club energy, and immersive urban atmospheres, Sinemis’s Farewell is less about moving bodies than about pulling the listener deeper into its futuristic inner world.
Big Blood :: Electric Voyeur (vinyl) (Psychic Sounds / Dontrustheruin)
Big Blood’s digital only release Electric Voyeur, from the very tail end of 2024, is now out on vinyl from Psychic Sounds.
V/A :: Analog 2025 (Remastered) (Unexplained Sounds Group)
Analog 2025 is a thunderous, all-consuming surge of analog fury—an album that squashes, foams, and swirls with such raw sonic force it stops you dead in your tracks.
Elori Saxl :: Drifts And Surfaces (Western Vinyl)
Elori Saxl’s Drifts And Surfaces opens with a stark electronic pulse, setting the tone for an album that reshapes her experiences on Lake Superior into three distinct, commissioned works. Expansive yet intimate, it explores the lake’s haunting duality and the fluid boundary between individual identity and the artistic communities that carry us.
Seabuckthorn :: A Path Within A Path (Laaps)
Seabuckthorn, the project of guitarist and sound artist Andy Cartwright, crafts an evocative blend of ambient, electro-acoustic, and semi-classical textures on A Path Within A Path, released by Laaps. The album unfolds like an avant-garde chamber work, rich with spiritual depth, intricate guitar work, and collaborations that expand its introspective, transportive soundscape.
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