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.
Tag: Castles In Space
Kayla Painter :: Infinite You (Castles In Space)
A little less on the club orientated side than previous releases, Infinite You explores darker prospects and leftfield entities.
Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan :: Districts, Roads, Open Space (Castles In Space)
Overall, D, R, O S makes for a diverting work of wry mischief-making social comment in sonic documentary clothing couched in ’70s/80s library sonics and retro-fit synthesis.
CLAIR :: “Body Blossom” (Hot Gem)
The entire composition rests in the ears and mind like a dewy mist hanging over the mossy floor of a forest tucked into rolling green hills.
Field Lines Cartographer :: Dreamtides (Castles In Space)
Dreamtides is another widescreen work that plays out like a sonic dream journal, with vivid illustrations of unreal landscapes couched in slow-elaborated recursions of languorous synth-tones.
Igloo Magazine :: Best of 2021
After covering several hundred releases in 2021, many notables—including links to their respective Igloo reviews or release pages—are cataloged here. As usual, there are no […]
Dalham :: Fünf: The Past Is a Foreign Country EP (Castles In Space)
Rhythmically flowing, these two slices of life, while a beatless foray through nostalgic soundscapes, is as blissful to the ears as any of his previous audio works.
clocolan :: This Will End In Love (Castles In Space)
The broken pitter-patter beats and downtempo foray through wandering synths only seek to further encrust clocolan’s ability to shift us into familiar BoC dimensions.