Author Archives: postrockcafe
ACL 2013: Overview
A Closer Listen tripled in size in 2013, but our dedication to covering the best instrumental and experimental music stayed the same. Thank you to everyone for your support, your readership and your social media sharing! Our second annual retrospective
ACL 2013: Overview
A Closer Listen tripled in size in 2013, but our dedication to covering the best instrumental and experimental music stayed the same. Thank you to everyone for your support, your readership and your social media sharing! Our second annual retrospective
V/A ~ The Holidays Don’t Have to Be So Rotten: Volume 4
Flannelgraph’s annual panacea has arrived! As the stores and stations ring with the sound of the same ten Christmas songs, over and over, this collection of all-new instrumentals restores some sanity to the season. Every year, Flannelgraph offers a viable
V/A ~ The Holidays Don’t Have to Be So Rotten: Volume 4
Flannelgraph’s annual panacea has arrived! As the stores and stations ring with the sound of the same ten Christmas songs, over and over, this collection of all-new instrumentals restores some sanity to the season. Every year, Flannelgraph offers a viable
Already Dead Tapes: 100 Albums for $10 (And a Button)
Yes, you read that right. Already Dead Tapes’ 100th release, “DOCUMENT: A Retrospective” is streaming online for free, but if you buy the cassette, you’ll also get a golden ticket good for downloads of the previous 99 releases: a full
Already Dead Tapes: 100 Albums for $10 (And a Button)
Yes, you read that right. Already Dead Tapes’ 100th release, “DOCUMENT: A Retrospective” is streaming online for free, but if you buy the cassette, you’ll also get a golden ticket good for downloads of the previous 99 releases: a full
Francisco Meirino ~ An Extended Meaning for Something Meaningless
Francisco Meirino is the composer formerly known as phroq; in the past two decades, he’s released over a hundred solo and collaborative ventures. After such achievements, most performers would be content to rest on their laurels. Not so Meirino, whose new
Francisco Meirino ~ An Extended Meaning for Something Meaningless
Francisco Meirino is the composer formerly known as phroq; in the past two decades, he’s released over a hundred solo and collaborative ventures. After such achievements, most performers would be content to rest on their laurels. Not so Meirino, whose new
Emanuele de Raymondi ~ Ultimo Domicilio
The work of Italian composer Emanuele de Raymondi lands in the juncture between drone, electronic and modern composition. Ultimo Domicilio (Last Domicile) is a work that one yearns to dissect, taking the original tracks and laying them side by side to see where
Emanuele de Raymondi ~ Ultimo Domicilio
The work of Italian composer Emanuele de Raymondi lands in the juncture between drone, electronic and modern composition. Ultimo Domicilio (Last Domicile) is a work that one yearns to dissect, taking the original tracks and laying them side by side to see where
Alexeï Kawolski ~ (Re)construction (1,2,3)
On (Re)Construction (1, 2, 3) Montreal- based Alexeï Kawolski brings a crushingly glitch and industrial laden style of heavy to your ear goggles. But be forewarned, as Kawolski is boldly prescribing the largest non-lethal dose allowable with a 3 CD set
Alexeï Kawolski ~ (Re)construction (1,2,3)
On (Re)Construction (1, 2, 3) Montreal- based Alexeï Kawolski brings a crushingly glitch and industrial laden style of heavy to your ear goggles. But be forewarned, as Kawolski is boldly prescribing the largest non-lethal dose allowable with a 3 CD set
Nuclear Whale ~ The Looming Machine
Jonathan Ridley’s “secular apocalypse” comes to life on the cover, bursting with color and menace, so beautiful that one can’t look away. Two witnesses, perhaps from the Book of Revelation, stare placidly at the swirl of disjointed appendages. It’s too
Nuclear Whale ~ The Looming Machine
Jonathan Ridley’s “secular apocalypse” comes to life on the cover, bursting with color and menace, so beautiful that one can’t look away. Two witnesses, perhaps from the Book of Revelation, stare placidly at the swirl of disjointed appendages. It’s too
Rafael Anton Irisarri ~ The Unintentional Sea
The Salton Sea was never meant to exist. It developed by accident in 1905 as waters were diverted from the California River, submerging the town of Salton. In the ensuing decades it became a resort area, until fertilizer runoff and
Rafael Anton Irisarri ~ The Unintentional Sea
The Salton Sea was never meant to exist. It developed by accident in 1905 as waters were diverted from the California River, submerging the town of Salton. In the ensuing decades it became a resort area, until fertilizer runoff and
