Records
Limes: Tarantula Plus Blue Blood
Limes’ Tarantula Plus Blue Blood is like the soundtrack to some enthralling, atmospheric indie film. In fact, it somehow...
Dec 08, 2011
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Pete Swanson: I Don't Rock At All / Man With Potential
Yellow Swans announced their break-up in 2008, but as they slowly tied up the loose ends of the project with...
Dec 08, 2011
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Andy Stott: We Stay Together
Forget “ambient techno.” Call this “Ambien techno.” Techno which drags you down, willing or not, into its slumber, unsettling dreams...
Dec 08, 2011
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Zomes: Earth Grid
Zomes’ monolithic 2011 LP Earth Grid is essentially like listening to someone play 16th century religious music on a Casio...
Dec 08, 2011
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Wolves in the Throne Room: Celestial Lineage
The Purist’s Fervor of 2011 may yet go down in metal history as one of its great uproars. Or something....
Dec 07, 2011
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Curren$y: Covert Coup
Digging through the prodigious amount of material he’s produced in the last three years (currently eighteen albums/mixtapes and counting), the...
Dec 07, 2011
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The Joy Formidable: The Big Roar
Oh glorious waves of wind-swept white noise! Wash over me in mud-laden fields of Glastonbury! Destroy my eardrums with constant...
Dec 07, 2011
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Bosco Delrey: Everybody Wah
I was first introduced to Bosco Delrey by a Last.fm shout that described his debut album Everybody Wah as sounding...
Dec 07, 2011
Tracks
Locrian: "Chalk Point"
The modern Locrian mode of musical scales is unique in its ability to create a particularly haunting sense of dissonance,...
Dec 06, 2011