A psychedelic journey through 16-bit landscape paintings of every Sega RPG game you dreamed of beating, “Moonstruck’s” decidedly bedroom pop aesthetic is blown up with large screen lushness. Bending lo-fi warbled synth and guitar melodies around Yann Le Razavet’s hushed vocal delivery, the track breaks wide-open in several places with uncanny tonal control that belies …
Sarah Pagé has full control over her technique and the harp’s potential for modulation. Bending notes before sending them through a bevy of pedals, Pagé’s harp takes on a multitude of musical voices – from Robbie Basho style exploratory rambles just teetering on the edge of distortion, to tightly wound viola strings threading the needle …
Drawing on some particularly striking Midsommar vibes, the video for Rob simonsen’s beautifully transcendent Neo-Classical pop album is lush with symbolism and feeling. Transposing chosen isolation against a high desert backdrop the costumes and choreography set a spark to the contemplative, piano-led composition by Simonsen. “Coeur” explores the limits of how grand and sweeping simple …
Milly is the slowcore / shoegaze project from CT-btw-LA artist Brendan Dyer. This young musician somehow manages to nail the chugging, languid glory of 90’s slowcore referencing Codeine by name but bands like Seam and Chapterhouse by spirit, with the pulverizing shoegaze choruses of bands like Nothing or Title Fight’s recent work. A crushingly honest …
The Swiss producer has created a near perfect summer track full of sun-warped analog synths, hard-snapping percussion and organic, complex rhythmic patterns that find their way in and out of the song’s superstructure. The song is paired with vintage vacation footage that finds its climax with an impromptu beach dance party and several well oiled …
“Sunglasses” is a towering, spiraling composition teetering just on the edge of madness. Black Country, New Road is a blender set to puree – No Wave sax stabs, jittery start-stop guitar riffs build into an never-ending escalator of anxiety after a triumphant intro. Released on the Thurston Moore affiliate Blank Recordings, BC, NR pull from …
Like mosquitoes caught in amber, the loop pedal has regenerative properties. Guitarist / post-grad music student Bloom / Pool has created a lush and golden-hued sound world on “Nectar” where guitar melodies double and fold back on themselves creating ghostly shapes of what they once were. The video accompaniment by filmmaker Shivangi Jain follows this …
Ural Mountains is a Buenos Aires based solo-shoegaze artist, so the decision to cover “Sometimes” by My Bloody Valentine should come as no surprise. Ural Mountains’ treatment and visual accompaniment is to drill down to the songs inherent nostalgic and sweet melody by paring back (and not attempting to replicate) Kevin Shields’ sheets and sheets …
“Respawn” is a scorching slab of eliding drone and cicada-like melodies pushed far into the red clamoring for space from the German experimental artist. The visuals for “Respawn” is a perfectly hypnotic slowmotion-and-reversed footage of a bus and it’s passage through a crowded metro area. There is a beguiling simplicity that forces us to look …
“A lone construction surveyor navigates the mysterious lower level of a soon-to-be demolished building. Burdened with the task of mapping the infrastructure’s ancient network of utility lines and deteriorating foundation, he descends deeper into paranoia as his measurements begin contradicting his findings.” I love the way this video portrays the collapsing of inner space of …