Monday, August 8 2011
‘Retromania’: You’d Throw It Against the Wall If You Weren’t So Immersed in It
Retromania is about the anxiety of influence; how our present moment is feeding into it, how it emerged framed as a historical inevitability, and how its necrotic collateral is any futurism that may have the audacity to disregard the past.
Monday, August 23 2010
Chilled to Spill: How The Oil Spill Ruined Chillwave’s Summer Vacation
Empty nostalgia or a realignment of values, chillwave's alchemical waste-sounds may be on the cusp of a deadbeat summer.
Tuesday, February 9 2010
Electronic Music: The Invader and Infiltrator
Electronic sounds have come to occupy and permeate spaces focused on alterity, from the fringes of academia to the disposal heap of exotica.
Tuesday, December 1 2009
Leyland Kirby: Sadly, The Future Is Not What It Was
A three-disc opus of gorgeous ambient canvases that pine for the loss of a future with the kind of crackle and glow found here.
Friday, November 13 2009
Broadcast and the Focus Group: Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
This a massive paranormal grimoire of sound that future generations may mistake for the audio book to the Necronomicon.
