Their typical signature based on layered, reverberant guitars and processed acoustic eerie ambiences are always catchy, elegant and brilliantly brought to the fore. Faithful to […]
Tag: Shoegaze
Million Dollar Money Machine :: Strangers (Sound & Sequence)
MDMM mark quite a departure for X0X. Their sound comes from an indie foundation with some synth influences, rather than being influenced by Aphex Twin […]
Ivan Shopov & Valance Drakes :: Unearthing Buried Chapters (Amek)
A carefully networked collection of sculpted organic electronics with a heartbeat. Ivan Shopov recently did a split with Monolog (Veracity EP, Subtrakt 2018), described as […]
Bastion :: Bastion (A Colder Consciousness)
There is an inescapable melancholy attached to Bastion. In spite of the smiles and analogue pop, the unbridled optimism of this snapping shoegazing synth wave […]
In Rotation :: Multi-view (April 2018)
In rotation for the past several weeks, this multi-view reveals the latest sonic landscape from 20 talented musicians. Plenty of brittle, glitch, abstract, noisy, mechanical […]
Hakobune :: Obelisk (Polar Seas)
The compositional architecture of this album is mainly focused on an avalanche of guitar drone noises and clusters with slow variations into it, mixing consonances […]
Belong :: October Language (Spectrum Spools)
9 years on, Spectrum Spools presents a pristine vinyl cut with reimagined album art, physical copies including a download card and three rare tracks from […]
V/A :: DRMN (Rakun0)
Subtle, nuanced, foggy electrical tones evolve and devolve seamlessly, making for a musical foray that is abstract yet moving. Spread over an hour, each musician […]