Symons’ skillful sonic reconfiguration and melancholy rhythms are as sugary as anything we’ve heard recently, serving as a soundtrack to a bygone era, and Strange Tales stands tall as a pinnacle effort.
Tag: Experimental
Hexalyne / Lain :: Evel 46 (Evel)
The tiniest particles and granular rhythms here are seductive and as abstract as ever, but it’s the evenly dispersed ambient threads that hold the disparate parts together so effectively.
V/A :: Artist Showcase – 4th Edition (Point Source Electronic Arts)
The Artist Showcase series offers a community of like-minded sonic sculptors a platform to present their enigmatic but perplexing structures for the world to interpret.
Ital Tek :: Timeproof (Planet Mu)
Timeproof simply functions as a gloomy and spacious soundtrack to lost planets thanks to the static fizz-fuzz sounds and bewitching textures that Ital Tek carefully extracts from his machines.
Hidden Orchestra :: To Dream is to Forget (Lone Figures)
Brisk and bumpy electronica is submerged in organic soundscapes and sonic vistas that appear out of nowhere.
Seefeel :: Quique (Too Pure) — 30 years later
“Today’s avant-garde will be tomorrow’s pop.” Never such a precise sentence to indicate the content of one of the most transcendent and otherworldly albums of the […]
3View :: Polar Seas (Jeannine Schulz, Andrew Heath & Anne Chris Bakker, IKSRE & Anthén)
Based in Toronto, Polar Seas is one indie label which stands among the best in the panorama of modern avantgarde-micro tonal ambient music.
emho & Arovane :: Sonic Companion #1 (Sonic Dialogue)
The combination is intense and relaxing, which together create something singular and new, a conglomerate otherwise unknown and amazing. Art can be provocative, controversial, difficult and then relaxing sometimes.
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