Liapades Album Cover

Paul Liam Walker ~ Liapades

There’s a delicate art to the field recording based composition: How present should the recordings be? Should they stand alone as a sonic element or merge seamlessly with the other elements of the work? Should they barely register their presence?

Liapades Album Cover

Paul Liam Walker ~ Liapades

There’s a delicate art to the field recording based composition: How present should the recordings be? Should they stand alone as a sonic element or merge seamlessly with the other elements of the work? Should they barely register their presence?

Gazelle Twin ~ Then You Run (Original Score)

Is there a Gazelle Twin sound?  Early fans believed so, until the dramatic left turn of 2018’s Pastoral and its companion album Deep England.  To her benefit, Elizabeth Bernholz is incredibly hard to pigeonhole, confounding expectations at every turn.  This being said,

Gazelle Twin ~ Then You Run (Original Score)

Is there a Gazelle Twin sound?  Early fans believed so, until the dramatic left turn of 2018’s Pastoral and its companion album Deep England.  To her benefit, Elizabeth Bernholz is incredibly hard to pigeonhole, confounding expectations at every turn.  This being said,

Ulvo ~ Monstera Country Cyborg

Sheffield’s Ulvo has been building an impressive discography over the past five years, and Monstera Country Cyborg should be the album that puts the artist over the top.  The music straddles two wafer-thin categories at once: the warm, elaborate electronic music popularized

Ulvo ~ Monstera Country Cyborg

Sheffield’s Ulvo has been building an impressive discography over the past five years, and Monstera Country Cyborg should be the album that puts the artist over the top.  The music straddles two wafer-thin categories at once: the warm, elaborate electronic music popularized

Kim Moore ~ A Song We Destroy to Spin Again

A Song We Destroy to Spin Again is a gorgeous mini-symphony, but leaving nothing to chance, it also comes in equally gorgeous packaging.  Blackford Hill is known for paying attention to detail.  The physical edition includes a 48-page softback book of

Kim Moore ~ A Song We Destroy to Spin Again

A Song We Destroy to Spin Again is a gorgeous mini-symphony, but leaving nothing to chance, it also comes in equally gorgeous packaging.  Blackford Hill is known for paying attention to detail.  The physical edition includes a 48-page softback book of

A Necessity for the Unexpected ~ An Interview With Dustin Wong

Dustin Wong has been an important part of the guitar-based experimental music panorama since the beginning of the past decade, producing a body of work that is quietly playful, through an approach to improvisation and electronics that creates mazes of

A Necessity for the Unexpected ~ An Interview With Dustin Wong

Dustin Wong has been an important part of the guitar-based experimental music panorama since the beginning of the past decade, producing a body of work that is quietly playful, through an approach to improvisation and electronics that creates mazes of

Taylor Deupree ~ Eev

As much of Earth continues to endure the longest, hottest heat wave in recorded history, a cool-down release acts as a relief.  Eev evokes early evening, as the sunset fades and the temperature begins to drop to a merciful level.  The

Taylor Deupree ~ Eev

As much of Earth continues to endure the longest, hottest heat wave in recorded history, a cool-down release acts as a relief.  Eev evokes early evening, as the sunset fades and the temperature begins to drop to a merciful level.  The

HIIT ~ For Beauty Is Nothing But The Beginning Of Terror

Improvising is fun. Or at least, many career musicians eventually grow to prefer the relative freedom that improvisation allows, the focus on sound rather than technique and on creativity rather than the execution of a predetermined pattern. Classical musicians are

HIIT ~ For Beauty Is Nothing But The Beginning Of Terror

Improvising is fun. Or at least, many career musicians eventually grow to prefer the relative freedom that improvisation allows, the focus on sound rather than technique and on creativity rather than the execution of a predetermined pattern. Classical musicians are

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Nye Krigere (New Warriors) started as a stage play about two warriors constructing elaborate machines.  One such mechanism is seen on the cover and in the video below.  According to Future Daughter, these creations are “shields of meaning around an empty

Future Daughter ~ Nye Krigere

Nye Krigere (New Warriors) started as a stage play about two warriors constructing elaborate machines.  One such mechanism is seen on the cover and in the video below.  According to Future Daughter, these creations are “shields of meaning around an empty