Tag: Glitch

Max Devereaux :: Aguja (Facade Electronics)

Milwaukee-based multi-instrumentalist, composer, painter, and filmmaker Max Devereaux explores the tactile, physical potential of the turntable on Aguja. Through fragmented vinyl manipulation, layered improvisation, and sonic collage, Devereaux transforms noise and decay into structured chaos, echoing the experimental minimalism of artists like Oval and Alva Noto.

Maps and Diagrams :: Clearwater (ROHS!)

With Clearwater, Maps and Diagrams (Tim Martin) crafts a hypnotic meditation on erosion, decay, and the quiet instability of sound. Blurring the line between ambient composition and sonic disintegration, the album drifts through fractured loops and dissolving textures, revealing beauty in impermanence and space.

Skurken :: Nótt (Touched Music)

Skurken’s Nótt marks a striking evolution in Jóhann Ómarsson’s sound—retaining the emotive depth of earlier works while exploring a broader, more varied electronic palette. Released on the ever-reliable Touched Music, it’s a cohesive and heartfelt journey through texture, rhythm, and reflection that both honors the past and points clearly toward the future.

Somaticae :: ENIAC EP (Evel) — [concise]

Evel remains unwavering in their pursuit of fringe electronics and mangled sonic artifacts, sustaining the IDM undercurrent with an ear for the abstract and the arcane. Somaticae’s ENIAC is a two-track, sixteen-minute plunge into disjointed circuitry and alien signal paths—where noise, rhythm, and atmosphere collide in cryptic harmony.