Whereas Algebra Suicide employed drum machines to create a laconic monologue, Los Microwaves used electronic equipment to drive experimentation. Two disparate LPs exploring different avenues […]
Tag: Noise
4PLAY :: Multi-review for Aquarelle, Ekin Fil, Secret Pyramid, John Davis (Students of Decay)
Below are considered and passing thoughts on four submissions from Alex Cobb‘s ever-diligent Students of Decay (previously on igloomag here and here). Two recent: an update […]
Nimh and Antikatechon :: Out Hunting for Teeth (Rage In Eden)
The slowly evolving sound textures and massively psych-acoustic timbres include the presence of an aesthetic equilibrium between religiously abstract procession and obsessional rumbling drama. Out […]
Nocturnal Emissions :: Accumulator (We Can Elude Control)
Accumulator gives voice to an age of social division and economic deprivation, collapse of the factory town alongside the dissection of the countryside. These tracks […]
Liz Christine / A. K. Klowski & Pyrolater / Total Normal :: 3view
The sonic quote, the sound of something familiar that someone else has recorded. Though visual collages were already being cut and pasted together in Paris […]
Elektroopa :: Für Sophie (Attenuation Circuit)
With its rich, analogue sound, recurring leitmotifs and sunny disposition, it’s easy to imagine a captivated infant reaching into the air to grab at its […]
Ian Martin / Valanx :: Double review (Elephant)
Elephant have secured two of the modern atmospherics masters. Martin looks gazes skyward before fixing his eyes on the land below. Valanx focuses of the […]
PSYCHIC MALMÖ :: Swedish synthesizer soothsayers
Psychic Malmö is a label that crosses the divide between acoustic and electric, and the boundaries of the label. The scourge of Sweden continues. Scandanavia […]
Aleks Jurczyk :: Brutal Britain (Elephant)
Live samples of birdsong and street noise lighten the mood, allowing the human aspect to enter the constructs of reinforced concrete. Through the grating and […]
Witxes :: A Fabric Of Beliefs (Denovali)
In this nocturnal sonic mosaic, fragments of post-rock, jazz, metal and classical music radiate, however, they are poured in small dosages and put together in […]
Rioteer / Urbanfailure / Gotharman / Axiomid :: Instant Satisfunction (Urbsounds)
Water and wine or oil and water? It swishes around—each artist has at least one very strong, very memorable track, but swallowed whole, all the […]
















