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Horse Lords ~ The Common Task
Like the Bridget Riley-styled art of the album cover, The Common Task seems to emerge, fully armed, from the traces of a bright modernist history whose ruins yet infuse our hearts with hope. The many references of the album have
Horse Lords ~ The Common Task
Like the Bridget Riley-styled art of the album cover, The Common Task seems to emerge, fully armed, from the traces of a bright modernist history whose ruins yet infuse our hearts with hope. The many references of the album have
*Press A* ~ Overland: Biomes, Iris and the Giant
Jocelyn Reyes ~ Overland: Biomes A tactics and management game about leading a group of survivors in a post-apocalyptic setting: the premise sounds perfect for a dramatic, tragically-infused soundtrack. And yet, that’s exactly what the excellent Overland: Biomes avoids, opting
*Press A* ~ Overland: Biomes, Iris and the Giant
Jocelyn Reyes ~ Overland: Biomes A tactics and management game about leading a group of survivors in a post-apocalyptic setting: the premise sounds perfect for a dramatic, tragically-infused soundtrack. And yet, that’s exactly what the excellent Overland: Biomes avoids, opting
Beatriz Ferreyra ~ Echos +
There’s a memorial aspect to acousmatic sounds that can lead towards a conceptual end-point usually avoided by Schaefferian humanism: the severing of the sound from its source is a kind of death. Echos + is an in-depth exploration of their
Beatriz Ferreyra ~ Echos +
There’s a memorial aspect to acousmatic sounds that can lead towards a conceptual end-point usually avoided by Schaefferian humanism: the severing of the sound from its source is a kind of death. Echos + is an in-depth exploration of their
Jordan Reyes ~ Fairchild Soundtrack + Border Land
A certain senselessness pervades the entirety of this album, which brings together two separate, yet interrelated works. One is a soundtrack for a short film about the abuse of a teenage girl at a summer camp, and the other is
Jordan Reyes ~ Fairchild Soundtrack + Border Land
A certain senselessness pervades the entirety of this album, which brings together two separate, yet interrelated works. One is a soundtrack for a short film about the abuse of a teenage girl at a summer camp, and the other is
Laughing Ears ~ Metamorphosis 形变
Instability, incompleteness, a certain kind of relativity. These are the sources of Laughing Ears’ Metamorphosis, which avoids totalizing effects and holistic conceptions of style in order to present listeners with an ever-shifting music that sounds like dance but is more
Laughing Ears ~ Metamorphosis 形变
Instability, incompleteness, a certain kind of relativity. These are the sources of Laughing Ears’ Metamorphosis, which avoids totalizing effects and holistic conceptions of style in order to present listeners with an ever-shifting music that sounds like dance but is more
Thomas Köner ~ Motus
The commonplace figure of the utopia of the dancefloor is a powerful motivator for dreams of communion, and yet, it’s constantly limited to select spaces and times in which the world’s divisions are dismantled only to be remade again once
Thomas Köner ~ Motus
The commonplace figure of the utopia of the dancefloor is a powerful motivator for dreams of communion, and yet, it’s constantly limited to select spaces and times in which the world’s divisions are dismantled only to be remade again once
*Press A* ~ Tasty 2019 Leftovers: Pine
The curse of compiling annual lists of our favorite releases is that a few soundtracks are always released too late in the year for us to properly digest. Over the coming days we present two albums that would have been
*Press A* ~ Tasty 2019 Leftovers: Pine
The curse of compiling annual lists of our favorite releases is that a few soundtracks are always released too late in the year for us to properly digest. Over the coming days we present two albums that would have been
Toh-Kichi ~ Baikamo
Under the name of Toh-Kichi, the duo of Satoko Fujii and Tatsuya Yoshida have released but three albums in the past 15 years, but the combination of their expertise and sheer creativity into such highly original music makes any wait
Toh-Kichi ~ Baikamo
Under the name of Toh-Kichi, the duo of Satoko Fujii and Tatsuya Yoshida have released but three albums in the past 15 years, but the combination of their expertise and sheer creativity into such highly original music makes any wait
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