Review: SQÜRL – EP #2

Review: SQÜRL – EP #2
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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

Review: Snacs – Swim Tape
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 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 Sad

Review: Spirits and the Melchizedek Children – So Happy, It’s...
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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

Review: Shampoo Boy – Crack
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Shampoo Boy = Head Dress + Ben Frost + Barn Owl … read more

Review: Second Layer – World of Rubber

Review: Second Layer – World of Rubber
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Second Layer = Abecedarians + Joy Division + Cold Cave … read more

Review: Sarah Neufeld – The Ridge

Review: Sarah Neufeld – The Ridge
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Sarah Neufeld = Circuit des Yeux + The Visit + Kate Bush … read more

Review: Sankt Otten – Messias Maschine

Review: Sankt Otten – Messias Maschine
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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

Review: Seams – Quarters
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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

Review: Rachel Grimes – The Clearing
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Rachel Grimes = Balmorhea  + Speaks Volumes–era 
Nico Muhly + Rachel’s  … read more

Review: Roger O’Donnell with Julia Kent

Review: Roger O’Donnell with Julia Kent
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Roger O’Donnell with Julia Kent = Peter Broderick + Hauschka + A Winged Victory For the Sullen … read more

Review: Ron Morelli – A Gathering Together
Review: Radis Benu – les prsctvs

Review: Radis Benu – les prsctvs
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Radis Benu = William Basinski + The Caretaker + Philip Jeck
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