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Tag: Instrumental
Hana Stretton :: tiarn (Self Released / Lima Loma / PW Elverum & Sun)
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.
Serge Geyzel :: Stay. EP (Self Released)
Rather than simply calling out for someone to remain, Geyzel uses these five tracks to explore what happens when you finally stop holding everything in. Its hidden strength is found in that openness: a willingness to wander through uncertainty, sit with absence, and ultimately let it all out.
Caural :: Aura (Prism92)
Aura leans more toward the hip-hop beat era than straight IDM, experimental in spirit, with enough left-field nuance that it resists being filed simply as instrumental hip-hop. It’s a document of a producer figuring out his own DNA in real time, two decades before anyone thought to look back and call it influential.
Simon Pyke :: Drift Works (Self Released)
Operating as Simon Pyke (aka Freeform) and various collaborative ventures, unveils Drift Works—twelve fractured post-ambient sketches unfolding in slow, seamless disintegration.
Record Of Tides :: Intercelestial (Mahorka)
Within that tension between structure and collapse, Sven Piayda uncovers a strange sense of ease. Intercelestial thrives inside instability, shaping corroded electronics and broken rhythmic patterns into something fluid, tactile, and strangely alive.
Hollan Holmes :: The Sanctity of Rust (Spotted Peccary Music)
Hollan Holmes delivers a conceptual ambient-electronic album that energizes beauty, while considering decay, aging, and the passage of time. This could act in a sonic parallel to Holmes’ visual art, celebrating the unconventional elegance of oxidation and endurance.
Memory Effect :: Ritual Machines (Augment)
Ritual Machines fulfills its promise: a hypnotic, otherworldly passage through exploratory electronics, guided by ceremonial rhythm, subterranean resonance, and a persistent sense of sonic invocation.
Perry Frank :: Scenario (Shady Ridge)
Founded in 2006 by Sardinian composer Francesco Perra, the one-man project Perry Frank crafts a deeply immersive sonic world where ethereal drones, degraded glitch textures, and echoes of ancient Sardinian folk traditions dissolve into a dreamlike meditation on memory, stillness, and time suspended.
Atlea :: Optics EP (Katabatik)
A shadowed pulse circles Optics, as Atlea folds primal electronic textures, finely etched vocals, and dark techno motion into a hushed yet magnetic release that lingers at the edges of perception.
Patricia Wolf :: Hrafnamynd (Balmat)
Patricia Wolf’s Hrafnamynd—her second LP for Balmat—melds ambient composition, field recordings, and empathic melody into a haunting, memory-soaked soundtrack whose warm synths, birdsong, and tape-worn textures mirror Edward Pack Davee’s raven-haunted Icelandic imagery and its meditation on collective and personal remembrance.
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