Swirling and skronking noise-rock from Baltimore, MD, the noise-punk quartet present a pixelated deathscape unspooling from a sentient VCR. This may be a stretch but imagine Unsane filtered through an even prettier version of Unwound playing Shoegaze, and I guess you approximate the unmoored and lovingly unhinged Charm City debutantes. Out on Crass Lips in …
By layering field recordings of rain, birds and crying atop the gentle and distant echo of droning overchords we are invited into a decidedly intimate moment that the Finnish sound artist has created. It’s hard not to get sucked in to the chance encounters intentionally recorded to create a deeply meaningful listen. The last minute …
While there is a lot of warmth in this Byrds-esque alt-country track, there is blood in the streets. The video for “Sure Enough” by the Portland-based artist juxtaposes this slide guitar, Fafrisa Organ and laid back twang with images of (mostly) males who are through sublimating their desire to destroy things and taking it outside. …
FEHLT is the Leeds UK post-punk / slowcore project led by art student Ewan Barr. “Closure” is a close and quite gorgeous approximation of the jittery and anxious late aughts guitar rock bands like Women, Deerhunter and The Hecks spectral-shone through a golden filter of dream pop. Hypnotic guitar lines and Barr’s languid vocals are …
Having dedicated much of his latter career to composing scores for Chinese cinema, the founding father of Trip-Hop teams up with Chinese turnabilist DJ Wordy and video artist Hiraki Sawa to create a surrealist backdrop to his heavy bass line, cotton candy spun synths and ace scratching throughout. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcvbZpCw6zU
Unfolding in a montage of morning routines, commutes and natural footage, the patient and elegiac “Flowerbed”. A lot of ambient and experimental music that is a bit hazy and dilated is often described as trying to recall an acid trip. In this case, “Flowerbed” is exactly that – instead the compound of choice was psilocybin. …
Described as “Hype Williams meets Missy Elliott” the South African MC has blown this video for the “Afro-Rave” anthem “Funani” completely out of the park. Combining a masala of influences including Grime and stabbing noise, Delazy’s stunning visual work is incomparable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxGJVORKs6s
After working as a musical director for many of UK’s biggest pop and electronic acts, Clegg’s EP Phoenix and the lead single “Pyramids” feels like a chance to let loose a bit and explore textures and rhythms outside the typical pop song structure. Massive, ascendant beats are held under the sway of wildly oscillating tones …
Divide & Dissolve create impossibly heavy and prescient doom metal that inhales and exhales light and darkness. The duo from Turtle Island and so-called Australia prove to be an incomparable force here – delving deep into the distortion-laden fissures between doom riff after doom riff, electronics and feedback swell and settle between each movement. “Prove …
In this slowly-evolving, slowly melting image that provides the visual accompaniment for Samuel Proffitt and Treman’s delicate piano & electronics composition, we get the sense of a slow detachment from reality. Led by minimal lines that impact and retract like stones skipping across a placid lake, Proffitt’s command of tone and pacing are on full …
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