HYNTA – “SIGNAL” Creating cavernous distances between deep percussive hits and her pitch-shifted vocals, “Signal” eventually picks up a steady beat and anxious bass line creating a linear canvas to fold in deep synth lines, crystalline sketches and late-night/early-am chopped-and-screwed vocals that communicate a push-and-pull between surrender to existential dread and the plunge into the …
HIDDEN LAND – “TRINITY” Trinity” the lead single from Hidden Land’s Perspectives, mirrors a deep conversation between two creative partners communicating across vast distances. The interplay between strings and piano contain eliding passages, doubling back on melodies, exploratory punctuation and confident moves forward into new terrain. The duo is split between U.S.’s west coast and Sweden, but …
MMBLR – “THAT BREEZE” MMBLR is the solo project of Snowmine drummer Alex Breckmann. For MMBLR Breckmann filters his obviously well-tuned ear for pop hooks through blown-out, ambient-adjacent sound palate – constructed through subtle layering of guitars in various stages of processing, vintage synths, dismantled drum kits and household objects. “That Breeze” sounds perfectly cloistered in a self-contained …
HARK MADLEY – “EMPATHY” Madley layers waves of vocal drone and crystalline synths gently atop a slowly pulsating percussive core on the single edit of “empathy” leaving gossamer tracers or reverb and the human voice in its wake. On “empathy” Madley deftly leaves enough space between each layer of sound and calls attention to each …
MASAKATSU TAKAGI – “MARGINALIA #22” Marginalia #22” is taken from an album comprised of similar sketches. Windows flung open to the Japanese countryside, sounds of insects and birds filtering in and first-thought, best-thought improvisation on the piano without any overdubbing or pre-conceived notion before fingers touched the keys. It is quite the beautiful experience to …