As a year in music 2009 has seen two distinct trends. The first, and most rewarding, has been established bands reaching the pinnacle of their career by making epoch defining albums i.e Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear, Dirty projectors. The second has been established bands making albums that fit consistently in their oeuvre both thematically and …
Drifting from subdued, late-night trip-hop into a massive caterwaul of shoegaze / noise-rock fury during the gloriously lengthened second act of the song – “Second Round” is a major step-forward in dynamics for the young Canadian duo. Complete in two acts the nocturnal shadings dissolve into a sick gradient red as the song abruptly shifts …
Recorded in a cabin somewhere deep in West Virginia, the Baltimore based Pergola wrap deft guitar lines around surging and buzzing drones that drift with unaided ease through the aural field. Aside from being a contemplative meditation centered on a few scales, Todd Shelar tastefully displays small flashes of technical skill in his use of …
The UK based composer eases into “Interlude” with a subtle grace that belies a quintet. In the relatively short 2 minute running time, Cross folds in double bass, two cellos, a violin and viola. The track seems to breathe and swell with oceanic rhythms at an almost imperceptible pace. “Interlude”. In it’s placement on the …
By slicing together footage of the retro-futurist Bauhaus Ballet with the Berlin-based musician’s highly affecting synthesizer-based experimental composition, “Spit on the Altar” is an unsettling and hypnotic work that presents us with a vision of the future that we were sure contained metallic robots, contact with other life-forms that conformed to our notions of a …
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