Archive for January, 2016
Review: Brave Timbers – Hope
Profound spatial empathy and invisible audiences, in a series of gentle interactions between guitar, piano and strings.
Review: JD Mason – Opalescent
Inward intimacy and dank space, in an album for fingerplucked guitars and peripheral chaos.
Review: Marcus Hamblett – Concrete
A strange mixture of meticulous orchestration and soft, spontaneous guitar work.
Review: Temple Maps – DEC15MBER 1: Cryogenic
Pixelated hip-hop nightmares and ambient panoramas crammed into boxes. Part of a five-chapter series of experimental music from Portland.
Review: Aluk Todolo – Voix
Restless krautrock momentum gains murderous self-awareness.
Review: Tag Cloud – A Footnote Of Sorts
Chris Videll bends broken wiring into beautiful shapes and sends high voltage flooding through them.
Review: Stinky Picnic – Minecraft
A bedroom psychedelia of manipulated percussion, coarse distortion and towering vocal loops.
Review: Māra – Surfacing
Beautiful vocal momentum and peripheral haunts, in a new solo work by Faith Coloccia.
Review: Eating Flowers – God Was A White-Tailed Deer
Vertical tension and the ripe crackle of otherwise aged tape.
Interview: Ingrid Plum
A conversation with a conceptual artist on the weight of silences, recording the wind and the charm of accident.