Authors: Ryan Hall
Review: Thus Owls – Black Matter
Thus Owls = Voice Coils + Kate Bush + Grizzly Bear
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Review: The Mattson 2 – Agar
The Mattson 2 = Popol Vuh + Niagara Falls + Dungen … read more
Review: The Visit – Through Darkness Into Light
The Visit = Helen Money + Roger O’Donnell and Julia Kent + The Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus … read more
Review: The Greatest Hoax – Enso
The Greatest Hoax = Steve Hauschildt + Boards of Canada + Panabrite
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Review: Symbol – Online Architecture
Online Architecture is one of the greatest synth-based records to grace my inbox this year. … read more
Review: Tetuzi Akiyama & Anla Courtis – Naranja Songs
Tetuzi Akiyama & Anla Courtis = Ava Mendoza + Chris Corsano + Sir Richard Bishop … read more
Review: Tarquin Manek – Tarquin Magnet
Tarquin Manek = Diamond Terrifier + Nate Young + Mike Shiflet … read more
Review: Takénobu – Reversal
Takénobu = Balmorhea + Kishi Bashi + Rachel’s … read more
Review: The Alvaret Ensemble, Kira Kira, Eiríkur Orri Ólaffson, Ingri...
The Skeylja project is a collaboration featuring the Berlin-based Alvaret Ensemble, who traveled to Iceland to practice and play with several prominent musicians in the avant-garde/post-classical tradition (a genre which Iceland seems to foster). … read more
Review: Spray Paint – Dopers
Spray Paint Dopers Monofonus Street: 10.23 Spray Paint = Clipd Beaks + The Fall + Brainbombs “Late night speed/was a bad idea”—soundtracking a comedown from flakka or some other terror-drug in the middle of a 15-hour drive on tour through some Midwestern hellscape, Dopers seethes and roils in mid-tour angst fueled by bad food and
Review: Small Black – Limits of Desire
In the supposedly genre-less world we live in, being pigeonholed into a nascent musical genre is probably the biggest challenge a 20-something Brooklynite will ever face. Enter Small Black. … read more
Review: Sleepmakeswaves – …and so we destroyed everything
Sydney Australia’s Sleepmakeswaves have the ability to move from the sublime to sublimely heavy in a half-breath’s time. … read more
