Dancing Alone is a solid production where no expenses are spared. If you are a fan of Elska’s vocal textures or enjoy translucent gothic-ambient moods and melodies, this album will most appeal to you.
Tag: Downbeat
Derrick Stembridge :: Past Present Future: Archive I (Labile)
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Faex Optim :: Adventures In Nature EP (Magic Square)
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Data Rebel :: Retrospective (Sun Sea Sky)
Post-industrial slivers interplay with predominately ambient motifs and chilled low-pressure rhythms as Data Rebel creates serene IDM snapshots that are at once fleeting as they […]
At The Psychedelic Circus :: Psychedelic Motel (Shipwrec)
Somewhere between early-era The Orb, The Future Sound Of London, and Legion Of Green Men you’ll find this transportive musical sprawl—a breakaway from the norms of […]
Keiss :: Tau Ceti (Touched Music)
Ambient streams dance about fluttering beats and driving rhythmic bursts of light. Brisk, melodic, and augmented armchair downtempo that deserves a thorough listen front to back. […]
Midday Static & Faex Optim :: Double review (Self-Released/Carpe Sonum)
Combining the latest albums by Midday Static (Verichrome, Self-Released) and Faex Optim (Look Around You, Carpe Sonum) creates an utterly sublime and nostalgic reality. Verichrome […]
Midday Static :: Ektachrome (Self-Released)
References, contrasts and comparisons aside, Midday Static fine tunes his sound with Ektachrome, an album that is lively and condensed in a thick kaleidoscopic downbeat […]
V/A :: Frequencies Of The Mind III (Mindtrick)
Oozing with subdued electrical patches and driving rhythms, there’s plenty to digest as FM3 jets to the top of our 2016 list—an intoxicating, surreal musical […]
Wermonster :: Solar Tales EP (Uncomfortable Beats)
Wermonster distills layers upon layers of found sounds and a few voices to orchestrate an organic musical amalgam of textured beatwork and transitory sonic vistas […]
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