Experimental Electronic Music
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.
From silence, impermeable space EP transitions, and fades away as if nothing ever happened. As if these peculiar disheveled electrical bits were perhaps a mirage; that once we’ve wiped our eyes to see better, only vanishes into thin air.
SU3 is yet another foray into the unknown; allowing its listeners to traverse distant and dense sound structures that are utterly unique and abstract, eerie and serene, chaotic and calm, and often at the same time.
Solypsis drives a powerful wedge through the whole electronic scene—leaving a jagged and bumpy trail that very few are able to replicate.
Cathode Ray Tube’s form of crunchy industrial glitch and blurry hypnotics continues to expand via Wandering Stars’ 4-piece suite.
The myriad of ideas is baffling, the collection of found sounds is staggering, and how CRT manages to glue it all together remains a mystery.
As the artist accurately describes, these are analog accidents that rinse, repeat, and reflect—stitched together like an aural set of strands. Both organic and orchestrated with a lively feel, One x 3 is a welcomed if not ghostly three-piece suite with nuanced exploratory sounds.
This aptly-titled album quite literally splits open to reveal its sheared tectonic plates, slicing and dicing blips and bleeps to their extreme breaking point and […]
As an avid electronic music aficionado for over 20 years, Robert Galbraith is a recognized name in the (darker) beat oriented electronic music scene. Highly-skilled […]
“In the midst of a global pandemic that has dominated 2020—roaming across a cinematic soundscape in flux, and surveying darker, perhaps stranger chasms—(artists) draw inspiration […]
