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Scott Morgan makes emptiness feel heavy on Equivalents, an album inspired by Albert Stieglitz's photographs of clouds.
21 Aug 2019
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Monomotion's 'Fujisan' Effortlessly Synthesizes Beats and Ambience
Monomotion have crafted a gorgeous suite of songs that you can dance to and relax with in a beautifully satisfying conclusion to a trilogy that began in 2015.
07 Aug 2019
Buster Keaton on a Laptop: Haiku Salut Bring 'The General' Into the 21st Century
British instrumental trio Haiku Salut create a new soundtrack for Buster Keaton's classic 1926 film The General with brilliant and unconventional results.
02 Aug 2019
Electronic Producer Lusine Is Never Content to Just 'Retrace' His Steps
Retrace features inventive, fully-formed pieces that push Lusine's sound forwards; pulling and twisting the core elements into different shapes.
18 Jul 2019
Carmen Villain's 'Both Lines Will Be Blue' Explores Andean Melodies Through Ambient Dub
Carmen Villain's latest album Both Lines Will Be Blue veers hard from her last two albums, trading her psychedelic roots for spacious ambient dub.
17 Jul 2019
K. Leimer Is Concerned About Humanity's Growing Crises on 'Irrational Overcast'
Experimental, electronic artist K. Leimer binds the music on Irrational Overcast to the central themes to create something that attempts to articulate the dangers that threaten societal equilibrium today.
09 Jul 2019
Félicia Atkinson's 'The Flower and the Vessel' Focuses on Small Gestures​
Experimental composer and French poet Félicia Atkinson creates The Flower and the Vessel "with pregnancy", using small gestures to explore questions of ontology and becoming.
08 Jul 2019
Norwegian Producer Andre Bratten Continues His Signature Moody Electronic Music on 'Pax Americana'
Andre Bratten's Pax Americana is full of contemporary synths with an undercurrent of low-key gloom, as suits the general mood of 2019.
28 Jun 2019
His Name Is Alive: All the Mirrors in the House (Early Recordings 1979 - 1986)
Warren Defever was crafting drones is his home in his pre-teens. This first of three His Name Is Alive archival releases compiles those recordings.
27 Jun 2019
Kevin Richard Martin's 'Sirens' Is Harrowing Music Inspired by Child Birth
Inspired by the traumatic circumstances of his child's early birth, Kevin Richard Martin's Sirens is one of the most frightening works of domestic horror ever committed to record.
17 Jun 2019
Experimental Music Festival Obey Convention Draws Unconventional Voices
We present interviews with three of the festival's most uncompromising voices. Debby Friday explores feminine aggression through her self-styled blistering Bitchpunk. Korea Town Acid is a classically-trained pianist who creates intricate, eclectic beats. Layia combines field recordings, instrumentation, and live vocals in dense ambient collages.
14 Jun 2019
The 'Heavy Age' Is Here: An Interview with Unwed Sailor
Unwed Sailor's Johnathon Ford discusses the history and evolution of his beloved band. "I've always focused more on a verse-chorus-bridge kind of structure. To my brain, it's like a New Order song without vocals."
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13 Jun 2019
Earthen Sea's 'Grass and Trees' Has an Oblong, Building-Block Quality
Earthen Sea's lavishly detailed new album, Grass and Trees, sounds like a classic dub-techno album but somehow doesn't feel like one.
13 Jun 2019
Portuguese Ambient Duo HRNS Create Universally Human Music on 'Naomi'
On their debut Naomi, Portuguese duo HRNS channel memories and feelings into impressionistic ambient drones.
05 Jun 2019
'Pale Bloom' Is an Assertion of Sarah Davachi's Stature as a Composer
Sarah Davachi asserts herself as a composer rather than a mere ambient artist on these four ghostly tracks that comprise Pale Bloom.
05 Jun 2019
Eluvium's 'Pianoworks' Is a Welcoming and Reflective Collection of Compositions
With his second collection of solo piano pieces, Eluvium offers the most accessible presentation of his musical persona yet.
03 Jun 2019
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