After covering several hundred releases in 2023, many notables—including links to their respective Igloo reviews or release pages—are cataloged here. As usual, there are no winners or runners-up as the lists are alphabetized by artist and selected tracks are featured on our Soundcloud playlist.
Tag: Castles In Space
Field Lines Cartographer :: Phases of This and Other Moons (Castles in Space)
Otherworldly yet strangely familiar, sometimes sounding oddly more organic than electronic, at once beauteous and mysterious, huge and delicate.
Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan :: The Nation’s Most Central Location (Castles in Space)
Overall, a wistful reflection on the past inside the present, seen through hometown glass darkly; a critique of its place in the nation ‘inspired’ by the architecture and history of the eponymous New Town he grew up in.
James Adrian Brown :: There Is Space Under Your Seat (Castles In Space)
Heavily electronica-based utilizing analog synths alongside tape machines, piano, strings and walls of ambient atmospherics, often focuses on the analog side of capturing and creating sound in the real world with physical hardware.
Field Lines Cartographer :: This Vibrating Earth (Castles in Space)
FLC pushes the sonic envelope into more atomically intense innerscaping; couched as it is in sprawling tracts from brooding pulse (“Still Canyon”) to queasy drones (“Hypogeum”), chthonic atmo (“Thawing Ice Temples”) to percolating celestial (“Rain Clouds Descending”)…
Igloo Magazine :: Best of 2022
After covering several hundred releases in 2022, many notables—including links to their respective Igloo reviews or release pages—are cataloged here. As usual, there are no winners or runners-up as the lists are alphabetized by artist and selected tracks are featured on our Soundcloud playlist.