Category Archives: Electronic

Blak Saagan ~ Un Sequestro Lungo 10,000 Anni

In the digital era, it’s rare to encounter a project as ambitious as this: a triple-LP concept album available as a boxed set, including a book with a short story (in Italian) and 180 illustrations.  Un Sequestro Lungo 10,000 Anni is

Blak Saagan ~ Un Sequestro Lungo 10,000 Anni

In the digital era, it’s rare to encounter a project as ambitious as this: a triple-LP concept album available as a boxed set, including a book with a short story (in Italian) and 180 illustrations.  Un Sequestro Lungo 10,000 Anni is

Simi Fyda ~ In My Personal Heaven, I’m the Devil’s Spawn

Simi Fyda‘s In My Personal Heaven, I’m the Devil’s Spawn offers no gentle introduction. Compared to Yuri (2023), it works within a noticeably narrower palette. The bright contrasts of its predecessor have given way to a largely monochrome world, built

Simi Fyda ~ In My Personal Heaven, I’m the Devil’s Spawn

Simi Fyda‘s In My Personal Heaven, I’m the Devil’s Spawn offers no gentle introduction. Compared to Yuri (2023), it works within a noticeably narrower palette. The bright contrasts of its predecessor have given way to a largely monochrome world, built

Intertoto ~ Siccar Point

Geology and music often operate in symmetry; we tend to write of “sedimentary layers of sound” and “geological shifts.”  In January, we reviewed Paleo Soul, a rock album by Washington geologist Barry Walker Jr.  This month, we turn to Scottish

Intertoto ~ Siccar Point

Geology and music often operate in symmetry; we tend to write of “sedimentary layers of sound” and “geological shifts.”  In January, we reviewed Paleo Soul, a rock album by Washington geologist Barry Walker Jr.  This month, we turn to Scottish

art test ~ Foreign Lands

Some release an album a month, while others release an EP every couple of years.  art test belongs to the latter group.  2024’s fever dreams collected a series of carefully curated singles, and 2026’s foreign lands does the same, acting as a tiny mix tape.

art test ~ Foreign Lands

Some release an album a month, while others release an EP every couple of years.  art test belongs to the latter group.  2024’s fever dreams collected a series of carefully curated singles, and 2026’s foreign lands does the same, acting as a tiny mix tape.

Mohamed Bourouissa ~ LILA

Mohamed Bourouissa has long treated sound as an integral part of his artistic practice, but LILA marks the first time it fully steps into the foreground. Conceived as a “musical object,” the album functions as an inventory of relationships: each

Mohamed Bourouissa ~ LILA

Mohamed Bourouissa has long treated sound as an integral part of his artistic practice, but LILA marks the first time it fully steps into the foreground. Conceived as a “musical object,” the album functions as an inventory of relationships: each

BOUNCYDUCK ~ It’s Either Me or My Auntie

Across a discography that ranges from politically charged works such as Palestine Is Always War and In the Life of a Palestinian Prisoner to the nostalgic reimagining of Arabic popular song found on Orientalism, Bouncyduck has consistently refused to be

BOUNCYDUCK ~ It’s Either Me or My Auntie

Across a discography that ranges from politically charged works such as Palestine Is Always War and In the Life of a Palestinian Prisoner to the nostalgic reimagining of Arabic popular song found on Orientalism, Bouncyduck has consistently refused to be

CLOUDWARMER ~ I Know the World Reasonably Well and Am Right About Everything

CLOUDWARMER is Eddie Palmer, also known as the New York half of Fields Ohio.  While he embraces classic timbres such as trip-hop and plunderphonics, his music is astonishingly contemporary, as evidenced by track titles such as “I Am Piloting An Oil

CLOUDWARMER ~ I Know the World Reasonably Well and Am Right About Everything

CLOUDWARMER is Eddie Palmer, also known as the New York half of Fields Ohio.  While he embraces classic timbres such as trip-hop and plunderphonics, his music is astonishingly contemporary, as evidenced by track titles such as “I Am Piloting An Oil

Travis or Alice ~ Travis Goes Deep

Some lives are difficult to imagine unless one has experienced something similar. Alisa Nedashkovska (Travis or Alice) wrote her debut EP during her first two years as a Ukrainian refugee in Berlin, and uses the music to bridge the gap

Travis or Alice ~ Travis Goes Deep

Some lives are difficult to imagine unless one has experienced something similar. Alisa Nedashkovska (Travis or Alice) wrote her debut EP during her first two years as a Ukrainian refugee in Berlin, and uses the music to bridge the gap