Thad McKrakenThere’s been a swell of dark loud psych-prog coming out these days, which I for one couldn’t be happier about. In the last six months or so, I’ve found myself completely immersed in new discs by Lesbian, Titan, the Psychic...
What’s the most you’ve impressive thing you’ve ever done in a month? Ryan Lott, AKA producer/composer Son Lux, wrote, recorded and finished an entire album. 36 minutes of music, to be exact, and in the shortest month of the year...
Quite fittingly, EARTH’s record release show for the quite fantastic Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light: I was at Seattle’s Tractor Tavern — a venue known for swilling whiskey and boot-stomping folk/bluegrass sounds that usually...
Vee Hua 華婷婷This mixtape – the second in a series of three on Icelandic music – focuses on indie and instrumental music.
It’s really easy to get lost within The Magic Place, Julianna Barwick’s debut on Asthmatic Kitty. It’s full of cathedral-reverbed voices looped against one another, intertwining into lines that float into space and little else...
This mixtape – the first in a series of three on Icelandic music – focuses on electronic musicians and garage rock bands.
A lot of barbs were thrown at James Blake on the run-up to his debut LP. Music critic Simon Reynolds playfully referred to Blake and his fellow soulboy bass-heads (i.e. Mount Kimbie, Jamie Woon) as ‘blubstep.’ A poster on a music forum...
Sometimes the most unlikely of music can only be described as “centering.” On the surface, Olekranon’s {bilal} is quite blatant and in-your-face. The album has a lot going on in the way of textures; sounds are layered with density...