Hana Stretton’s album tiarn is filled with the kind of hazy lo-fi arrangements that pull on the heart strings of sepia toned memories, fading Polaroid snapshots in sound of private moments and community life alike. It’s not crazy to learn that some old family camera footage is part of the inspiration behind these songs.
Tag: Folktronica
Jonny Nash :: Once Was Ours Forever (Melody As Truth)
Once Was Ours Forever is an album that asks for nothing but offers so much. It’s a buen retiro built from the light of things once held. Nash doesn’t aim for effect, he moves toward the truth of small gestures.
Avi C. Engel & Bradley Sean Alexander :: Rewild (floralia)
Rewild is a sumptuous, bittersweet, and spiritual post-ambient effort with captivating moments of everlasting and nostalgic beauty.
Clara Engel & Bradley Sean Alexander :: Ghost Bird (Polar Seas)
Pieces are shrouded in a gleaming and delicately evocative foggy atmosphere. The airy touching ambient folkish dimension of this album tends to adopt wistful sentimental […]
Two on the Radar :: Phoenician Blinds and L.U.C.A.
Exhilarating, vividly atmospheric fusion of jazz, afrobeat, rock and hip hop from new promising London-based quartet Phoenician Blinds, and a cosmic cinematic mélange of electronica, […]
A WINTER TRANSMISSION :: Smith & Mudd, Experiments in Silence, Drape, Fatih Tuter
Time for this year’s second Winter Transmission. Four albums to keep you warm and cozy yet soul-stirred and mind-stimulated during the cold gray days. Smith […]
[.que] :: Drama (Schole)
Coltish beats gallivant with comely melodies played briskly on piano and acoustic guitar and scrubbed vigorously with bubbly electronics. [.que] is Nao Kakimoto, a twenty-five-year-old […]
BALMORHEA :: Pyrakantha (Official video)
Shot at twilight over the course of 42 days, Colin Kennedy’s video for “Pyrakantha” by Balmorhea follows skater Danny Garcia through the streets of LA […]
Capitol K :: Andean Dub (Faith & Industry)
Capitol K sails wonky, lo-fi electronica, psychedelia squiggles, and streetified, foot-stomping huayño as expertly as a master kite-flyer keeping his delicate craft aloft and swooping. […]
















