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Negative Gemini, Slow News Day in the Vampire World, Elian and Anduin ~ Richmond Tape Club Volumes One – Four

Richmond Tape Club is billed as “a series of 20 minute EPs from Richmond, Virginia based electronic artists”, but it encompasses multiple genres including drone, new wave and experimental.  Two cassettes are being released every other month, and we’ve just reached

Negative Gemini, Slow News Day in the Vampire World, Elian and Anduin ~ Richmond Tape Club Volumes One – Four

Richmond Tape Club is billed as “a series of 20 minute EPs from Richmond, Virginia based electronic artists”, but it encompasses multiple genres including drone, new wave and experimental.  Two cassettes are being released every other month, and we’ve just reached

Glaciers ~ Mirrored Through the Ancients

Fans of Big Guitars, rejoice!  The San Francisco band who first brought us the superb And the Sea Won the Battle has returned with an even harder-edged album: loud, catchy, and confident.  But don’t call it post-rock; this is really all-out rock,

Glaciers ~ Mirrored Through the Ancients

Fans of Big Guitars, rejoice!  The San Francisco band who first brought us the superb And the Sea Won the Battle has returned with an even harder-edged album: loud, catchy, and confident.  But don’t call it post-rock; this is really all-out rock,

Moon Ate the Dark ~ Molt and Grow

Last year’s self-titled debut from Moon Ate the Dark enchanted our readers, who made it our most popular review of 2012.  The head of Brian Records was so taken by the album that he asked the duo to record a 2-track follow-up

Moon Ate the Dark ~ Molt and Grow

Last year’s self-titled debut from Moon Ate the Dark enchanted our readers, who made it our most popular review of 2012.  The head of Brian Records was so taken by the album that he asked the duo to record a 2-track follow-up

Daniel Blinkhorn ~ Terra Subfónica

The most diverse album in recent memory, Terra Subfónica is a series of “radiophonic miniatures” that investigates sound and sub-sound, with an emphasis on the ignored.  Extensive liner notes guide the listener through a selection of soundscapes that range from quiet field

Daniel Blinkhorn ~ Terra Subfónica

The most diverse album in recent memory, Terra Subfónica is a series of “radiophonic miniatures” that investigates sound and sub-sound, with an emphasis on the ignored.  Extensive liner notes guide the listener through a selection of soundscapes that range from quiet field

Tattered Kaylor ~ Sombre nay Sated

Australian sound artist Tessa Elieff (Tattered Kaylor) has created and curated many workshops, festivals and sound installations over the past few years, but her recorded discography (including last year’s debut album Selected Realities) is expanding her reach to a global audience.

Tattered Kaylor ~ Sombre nay Sated

Australian sound artist Tessa Elieff (Tattered Kaylor) has created and curated many workshops, festivals and sound installations over the past few years, but her recorded discography (including last year’s debut album Selected Realities) is expanding her reach to a global audience.

Kaboom Karavan ~ Hokus Fokus

An album by a frequent Kreng collaborator, mastered by Nils Frahm?  Forget dragons, locusts and blood, the apocalypse has officially arrived.  On a less important note, Frahm has just cemented his status as the Kevin Bacon of instrumental music.  Combine

Kaboom Karavan ~ Hokus Fokus

An album by a frequent Kreng collaborator, mastered by Nils Frahm?  Forget dragons, locusts and blood, the apocalypse has officially arrived.  On a less important note, Frahm has just cemented his status as the Kevin Bacon of instrumental music.  Combine

Lights Dim & Endless Melancholy ~ Soft Steps / Endless Melancholy ~ Epilogue

Poland’s Lights Dim and the Ukraine’s Endless Melancholy have been busy since they were last reviewed here at ACL, releasing a series of small-run, beautifully designed EPs.  (Lights Dim: please make a third edition of Moon!)  Each act borders on ambience, but

Lights Dim & Endless Melancholy ~ Soft Steps / Endless Melancholy ~ Epilogue

Poland’s Lights Dim and the Ukraine’s Endless Melancholy have been busy since they were last reviewed here at ACL, releasing a series of small-run, beautifully designed EPs.  (Lights Dim: please make a third edition of Moon!)  Each act borders on ambience, but

Disparition ~ Madoc

Madeline L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels have influenced multiple generations of young adults while standing the test of time.  When it was first published in 1962, the initial installment drew criticism for being too religious and for being too secular, a

Disparition ~ Madoc

Madeline L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels have influenced multiple generations of young adults while standing the test of time.  When it was first published in 1962, the initial installment drew criticism for being too religious and for being too secular, a