Experimental Electronic Music
Arrowounds delivers the music, magic and mystery, solidifying the esoteric energies emanated from the underworld into the medium of this album. It’s a perfect soundtrack for getting lost in the labyrinthine depths waiting to be discovered beneath the surface of everyday Ohio and Kentucky.
This is music made with total creative freedom, by a group perpetually evolving. Rather than repeat themselves, A-Sun Amissa continue to carve out their own shadowy corner of the experimental world—one where dread becomes catharsis, and ruin gives way to reverie.
Such an exploration might seem at first more fitted to harsh noise or the post-industrial genres, but the sounds here are lush and radiant, calming, relaxed. There is the pungent fragrance of death present, but it isn’t cloying, but something familiar and comforting.
A culmination of everything Day Before Us has cultivated over the past decade, while venturing into even more radiant, immersive terrain. For listeners willing to let go and drift in its pull, Dim Shores of Eternity is one of the most beautiful and haunting releases of the year—a spiritual monument built from silence, sorrow, and sublime sound.
Throughout Fluorescent Grey, the compositional identity is collective and porous. Leimer, Peters, and Barreca continue their project of dissolving ego in favor of ensemble synergy, crafting a shared auditory imagination where the boundaries between composer, performer, and listener collapse.
VSESLAV (aka Stanislav Sevostyanikhin) masterfully weaves shimmering layers of ambient textures and flowing synthesizer currents on Dryoma to craft immersive sonic relics that transcend conventional notions of time and dimension.
The new Imprints album, titled Blood Moon—debuting on Data Discs—is a spellbinding passage through ambient and electroacoustic soundscapes, blending reimagined motifs with original compositions inspired by The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
In No Memory is calming, haunting, and ethereal, its deep undertones of dark ambient and industrial threads weaving a hypnotic atmosphere.
An epic imaginary soundtrack for a fanciful film noir. In a dreamlike and nocturnal atmosphere, filled with rain and decaying sounds, In Darkness Let Me Dwell—available on Owl Totem, a “dark vibes” division of Dronarivm Records—deconstructs, reworks and wants to pay homage to the imagery and clichés of cinema noir.
Contrary Motion is an album for those who wish to embark on a journey of neurodivergence from the realm of traditional thought and soundwaves so as to access the remedies that will give them relief from the complexity of modern life. This is live audio that has been refracted through the studio by means of frequency hopping between Australia, Ireland and England.
These six expansive tracks feel suspended in time—meditative and immersive—where reflective dark ambient passages and timeless dronescapes stretch into a surreal echo of the world around us.
