Taiga Remains’ ghost walks amongst us, the last hurrah having come some five years back with the blown-out drone of Wax Canopy (Digitalis), while plain old Alex Cobb […]
Tag: Students Of Decay
Maxwell August Croy & Sean McCann :: I (Students of Decay)
A production at once maximalist and minimalist endows it with an architecture wherein each musical gesture peals to reveal—a spatiality with every emplacement lent heightened presence. […]
Secret Pyramid & John Davis :: Double review (Students of Decay)
A major vector in the trajectory of West Coast US ambient/drone for nearly a decade, Students of Decay quietly brought up a century of releases […]
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 […]
Top releases of twenty-twelve
Well over 180 releases have been selected by various igloomag.com contributors highlighting some of the finest in an expansive array of electronic music featuring ambient, […]
Alex Cobb :: Passage to Morning (Students of Decay)
In a world drowning in ambient droning, Alex Cobb’s methods may be familiar, his materials no more than the tropes of the territory, but outcomes […]
Experimedia & Students of Decay :: Multi-review
The last year has seen Experimedia move up into the big league, a series of compelling recordings by the likes of Lawrence English and Black […]
Pausal :: Autumnal (Students of Decay)
Autumnal is a diptych of floating tableaux of wistful bucolica and gently heart-string tugging micro-symphonics created from a mélange of treated guitar and processed vinyl, […]
ALAN LOCKETT :: End Summerless Mix
Conspiring with fellow-travellers in ambient-drone and atmospheric electronica, Alan Lockett, Igloo Contributing Editor (aka albient for mixage and audio-scrawl), compiles a document of days. [September […]