Authors: Ryan Hall
Review: SQÜRL – EP #2
Coming off a brilliant collaboration with lute revivalist Josef van Wissem, this largely instrumental, sprawling compilation of psychedelic guitar explorations of dissonance and repetition is as good as any Jarmusch film: disconnected, adjacent to popular culture and unmistakably idiosyncratic. … read more
Review: Snacs – Swim Tape
Snac’s Swim Tape received heaps of praise in 2013 for sending a chilled-out, sample-based beat pastiche of chillwave-meets-nu soul-meets-droning ragas, deep underwater. Josh Abramovici intends you to listen in one 30-minute sitting, a transporting move through stream-of-conscious beat-making. … read more
Review: Spirits and the Melchizedek Children – So Happy, It’s...
So Happy is comprised of deep washes of neo-psychedelic, reverbed-out guitars, spectral folk of a doomed American West and the deep ebb and flow of droning guitars sacred enough to divine gold. … read more
Review: Shampoo Boy – Crack
Shampoo Boy = Head Dress + Ben Frost + Barn Owl … read more
Review: Second Layer – World of Rubber
Second Layer = Abecedarians + Joy Division + Cold Cave … read more
Review: Sarah Neufeld – The Ridge
Sarah Neufeld = Circuit des Yeux + The Visit + Kate Bush … read more
Review: Sankt Otten – Messias Maschine
If you couldn’t tell from the band’s name, album title or album cover, this band is German. Waaay German. … read more
Review: Seams – Quarters
Quarters utilizes crisp, unadorned beats that snap and pop in crystal-clear hi fidelity. These simple chord progressions and beats are then added on layer by layer with buzzing synths and serrated arpeggios until the sum eventually outweighs its parts, but not without leaving a golden thread back to the beginning. … read more
Review: Rachel Grimes – The Clearing
Rachel Grimes = Balmorhea + Speaks Volumes–era Nico Muhly + Rachel’s … read more
Review: Roger O’Donnell with Julia Kent
Roger O’Donnell with Julia Kent = Peter Broderick + Hauschka + A Winged Victory For the Sullen … read more
Review: Ron Morelli – A Gathering Together
Ron Morelli = Corporate Park + Vereker + Violet Poison … read more
Review: Radis Benu – les prsctvs
Radis Benu = William Basinski + The Caretaker + Philip Jeck
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