nine is best experienced in full—an immersive journey that never feels confined by its sonic architecture, instead showcasing a collective of artists fully in tune with subtlety, mood, and musical balance.
Tag: Shoegaze
Zavoloka :: ISTYNA (Prostir) — [concise]
Industrial sediment spreads across six distinct pieces by Ukrainian composer and sound sculptor (Kateryna) Zavoloka.
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.
KIKOK :: Slow Crunch (Mestnost)
Across five original tracks and six transformative remixes, Fedoseev’s deep-rooted love for live performance radiates. Here, performance becomes communion—an unspoken language etched in shimmering soundscapes.
Vague Lanes :: Divergence And Declaration (Viasonde / Swiss Dark Nights)
The second coming of Vague Lanes (aka Mike Cadoo and Badger McInnes) comes as a moody, dark, and also insanely catchy collection of darkwave tunes. The group nails the one thing I always appreciate when listening to music: the foundations. If your grooves aren’t solid, there’s a good chance the music is going to fall flat.
Giannis Gogos :: Light Within (Saos)
With a seamless blend of structured instrumentation and drifting passages, this ten-track suite unfolds as a collection of evolving, serene, and blurred shoegaze elements that hover just above the realm of organic surrealism.
Neutrino Effect :: FAMINE (Labile)
Radiating enigmatic industrial-electronic pulses from Omaha, Neutrino Effect (aka Jon Sanford) ventures into an entirely different dimension with FAMINE, a fourteen-track assemblage, fleeting in length but with the cosmic force of the universe propelling us through its boundless depths.
Earthen Sea :: Recollection (Kranky)
Combining calming dub, shoegaze (shoegauze), and sinuous psychedelic/guitar inflections, Recollection delivers an emblematic return to some familiar sounds, easily pulling in fans of these genres, and others besides.
Hollie Kenniff :: For Forever (Nettwerk / Imaginary North)
Ambient is like a river. You step into the flow and let the new waters ripple on past. Breathtaking ripples abound on this record from […]
2View :: Sounding Boards — Skytree, Zachary Gray
There’s red line, thin, but distinct, between different kinds of sounding—between soundalike and sound like, resemblance and redolence, imitation and influence; thus, though sometimes end products may sound similar, in essence they differ crucially.
Daniel Vickers & Sergio Mariani_MRN :: New Dawn EP (Audiobulb)
Two seasoned musicians covering upper atmospheric realms offer a reassuring, charming, yet fleeting escape with New Dawn.
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