Graveyard Tapes ~ Our Sound Is Our Wound

As a review site that leans toward the instrumental side, we don’t receive many albums that are about heartbreak; without making a complete site-wide survey it’s impossible to say for sure, but it certainly feels like we’ve covered more albums

Graveyard Tapes ~ Our Sound Is Our Wound

As a review site that leans toward the instrumental side, we don’t receive many albums that are about heartbreak; without making a complete site-wide survey it’s impossible to say for sure, but it certainly feels like we’ve covered more albums

Jim Haynes ~ The Wires Cracked

The Wires Cracked sounds exactly like its title.  The album begins with the electronic equivalent of a sonic boom, and within seconds the listener is plunged into a dystopia of sputtering static, dropped messages and expired half lives.  If wires could

Jim Haynes ~ The Wires Cracked

The Wires Cracked sounds exactly like its title.  The album begins with the electronic equivalent of a sonic boom, and within seconds the listener is plunged into a dystopia of sputtering static, dropped messages and expired half lives.  If wires could

Sound Propositions 04: Steve Roden (part II)

 it seems a necessity, as active listeners, to become sensitive to these things in the world around us that the german poet rilke called “inconsiderable things” (the things from everyday life that most people don’t really pay sensitive attention to).

Sound Propositions 04: Steve Roden (part II)

 it seems a necessity, as active listeners, to become sensitive to these things in the world around us that the german poet rilke called “inconsiderable things” (the things from everyday life that most people don’t really pay sensitive attention to).

JesterN & Paolo Pascolo ~ hBar

If you’ve ever stood still in a busy part of any city just to listen to the way it continually constructs itself then you should be familiar with the kind of experiment hBar enacts: the microscopic dissonance at the heart

JesterN & Paolo Pascolo ~ hBar

If you’ve ever stood still in a busy part of any city just to listen to the way it continually constructs itself then you should be familiar with the kind of experiment hBar enacts: the microscopic dissonance at the heart

Main ~ Ablation

First came Loop, then Main, then Robert Hampson put the pseudonym to rest and went it alone.  After 2006, fans were told they’d never hear another Main album again.  But the mourning was brief, because Hampson himself had not retired;

Main ~ Ablation

First came Loop, then Main, then Robert Hampson put the pseudonym to rest and went it alone.  After 2006, fans were told they’d never hear another Main album again.  But the mourning was brief, because Hampson himself had not retired;

Barn Owl ~ V

Evan Caminiti and Jon Porras have been exploring the more electronic facets of textural guitar compositions on a lot of solo outings, and they really bring it all together on their fifth Barn Owl album. The San Francisco duo’s provocative

Barn Owl ~ V

Evan Caminiti and Jon Porras have been exploring the more electronic facets of textural guitar compositions on a lot of solo outings, and they really bring it all together on their fifth Barn Owl album. The San Francisco duo’s provocative

Marc Behrens ~ Queendom Maybe Rise

It’s been a while since we’ve heard a new full-length work from Marc Behrens, so it’s great to hear him back in action.  Queendom Maybe Rise is an album of two pieces, one long enough to be an album of its own

Marc Behrens ~ Queendom Maybe Rise

It’s been a while since we’ve heard a new full-length work from Marc Behrens, so it’s great to hear him back in action.  Queendom Maybe Rise is an album of two pieces, one long enough to be an album of its own

Liz Christine ~ Sweet Mellow Cat

Adorable kitty-cats meow aplenty on Sweet Mellow Cat, chatting in anticipation and eyes fixated on the slab of meat you just bought, looking up at you with those innocent…uh…puppy-dog eyes. You just can’t resist those eyes, and soon the two of

Liz Christine ~ Sweet Mellow Cat

Adorable kitty-cats meow aplenty on Sweet Mellow Cat, chatting in anticipation and eyes fixated on the slab of meat you just bought, looking up at you with those innocent…uh…puppy-dog eyes. You just can’t resist those eyes, and soon the two of