Matmos are masters of the electronic concept album, and I was delighted that the archive in question is the plethora of “sound” albums released by the maverick founder of Folkways, Moses Asch. Beyond the concept, these glitchy, rhythmic, noisy, textural pieces are a joy to listen to and behold.
Tag: Thrill Jockey
Mouse on Mars :: AAI (Thrill Jockey)
Mouse On Mars, however, deliver not a cold, robotic, digital album, but a living, breathing record of their experimentations and perambulations in and around the subject of technology and its growing impact in our civilization.
Oval :: Eksploio EP (Thrill Jockey)
Songs are not defined by their beat or their melodies, because, in truth, they keep oscillating between snippets, cells of sounds, which all contribute to […]
Igloo Magazine :: Best of 2016
While other sites might fight to get 1000s down to 50 or 20, at Igloo HQ we’ve refused to don the hair shirt of reducing […]
GLOBAL NOISE :: Radian, J.Peter Schwalm, Orson Hentschel
Electric explosiveness from Vienna, alluring darkness from Frankfurt and edgy, wall-cracking experimentalism from Düsseldorf. Radian :: On Dark Silent Off (Thrill Jockey) Vienna’s Radian is […]
Igloo Magazine :: Best of 2014
Here it is, well over 160 releases have been selected by various igloomag.com contributors highlighting some of the finest in an expansive array of music […]
Jon Porras :: Light Divide (Thrill Jockey)
Hypnotic, evocative and dynamic sonic minimalism designed for nocturnal listening. Porras manages to generate tension and provocatively restrained drama that pass through the listener’s veins […]
Top releases of 2013
Well over 150 releases have been selected by various igloomag.com contributors highlighting some of the finest in an expansive array of electronic music featuring ambient, […]