Troy Schafer ~ Supreme Happiness Forever
An odd note about experimental music: we often support an artist’s desire to go all-out atonal avant-garde, dissonance shrieking from warring strings, once we know that the artist doesn’t have to go this route. In other words, once an artist
Troy Schafer ~ Supreme Happiness Forever
An odd note about experimental music: we often support an artist’s desire to go all-out atonal avant-garde, dissonance shrieking from warring strings, once we know that the artist doesn’t have to go this route. In other words, once an artist
Peter Toll ~ movement (holkham)
When listening to pure, unadulterated field recordings, the conscious mind is aware that it is hearing history rather than composition. The fallow deer steps and honking mating calls of “movement (holkham) #1” are no studio creation; they unfold in real
Peter Toll ~ movement (holkham)
When listening to pure, unadulterated field recordings, the conscious mind is aware that it is hearing history rather than composition. The fallow deer steps and honking mating calls of “movement (holkham) #1” are no studio creation; they unfold in real
Deison ~ Quiet Rooms
Spectres circle Quiet Rooms, never appearing fully to the eye. Deep in the subconscious, we may be aware that something isn’t quite right, but any experience of paranormal phenomena is one out of sight, influenced by a slight, fearful dread and an
Deison ~ Quiet Rooms
Spectres circle Quiet Rooms, never appearing fully to the eye. Deep in the subconscious, we may be aware that something isn’t quite right, but any experience of paranormal phenomena is one out of sight, influenced by a slight, fearful dread and an
Sunwølf ~ Beyond the Sun
It’s hard these days to launch a band, especially a post-rock band, and to get noticed. Maybe it helps to define one’s sound as “stoner ambient drone”, the tag that Sunwølf has chosen to summarize its work. But there’s something different
Sunwølf ~ Beyond the Sun
It’s hard these days to launch a band, especially a post-rock band, and to get noticed. Maybe it helps to define one’s sound as “stoner ambient drone”, the tag that Sunwølf has chosen to summarize its work. But there’s something different
Brambles ~ Charcoal
Mark Dawson’s debut as Brambles is packed with mystery and buoyed by austerity. It’s not common to hear an album whose source instruments can confound and comfort at the same time. The intellectual in us will sometimes have a hard
Brambles ~ Charcoal
Mark Dawson’s debut as Brambles is packed with mystery and buoyed by austerity. It’s not common to hear an album whose source instruments can confound and comfort at the same time. The intellectual in us will sometimes have a hard
Padna ~ Burnt Offerings
This year’s final instalment of Preservation’s Circa series arrives just as I think I’ve worked out the coded typography on the covers – at least, the penny’s finally dropped that each cover has the phrase ‘CIRCA2012’ on there – and
Padna ~ Burnt Offerings
This year’s final instalment of Preservation’s Circa series arrives just as I think I’ve worked out the coded typography on the covers – at least, the penny’s finally dropped that each cover has the phrase ‘CIRCA2012’ on there – and
Lento ~ Anxiety Despair Languish
Black metal was recently denounced by The Vatican and the Holy See, pointing at the genre as responsible for fuelling an increase in Satanism. No angelic light exists inside this music; the only light is pitch black. Demonisation within music reaches
Lento ~ Anxiety Despair Languish
Black metal was recently denounced by The Vatican and the Holy See, pointing at the genre as responsible for fuelling an increase in Satanism. No angelic light exists inside this music; the only light is pitch black. Demonisation within music reaches
Astrïd ~ High Blues
Musicians who choose to put the word ‘blues’ in their album title can usually be divided into two camps; those who wish to dwell upon the misery that having the blues brings, and those who see their music as sitting
Astrïd ~ High Blues
Musicians who choose to put the word ‘blues’ in their album title can usually be divided into two camps; those who wish to dwell upon the misery that having the blues brings, and those who see their music as sitting
a closer listen 