Review: Clara Engel – “Dressed In Borrowed Light” August 24, 2021 Clara Engel makes skeletal music whose bizarre sense of Minimalist scale is only outstripped by the haunted and almost foreboding nature of the soundscapes… Continue Reading
Review: Eluvium – “Virga II” August 24, 2021 When ambient composer Matthew Cooper released Virga I in December 2019 – ages ago, as the world turns – he had no reason to foresee what… Continue Reading
Review: Musk Ox – “Inheritance” August 3, 2021 Inheritance, the third outing from Canadian chamber folk trio Musk Ox and the follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2014 LP, Woodfall, begins modestly with the… Continue Reading
Review: Erik Della Penna – “Rainy” July 13, 2021 Ladies and gentlemen, Gotham’s antique-garde marches onward! Though banjo tinkerer and carnival barker/band leader Curtis Eller continues to rage raggedy in the North Carolina… Continue Reading
Review: Raphael Weinroth-Browne – “Worlds Within Live” July 13, 2021 What can we learn when a musician re-records a post-classical solo work, without an audience, then bills it and releases it as a live… Continue Reading
Review: Ramona Cordova – “Naive” July 6, 2021 Home recording has been a blessing to the indie world, a truly democratizing force in a musical toolkit constructed out of DIY ethos. Yes,… Continue Reading
Review: Brainiac – “Attic Tapes” June 24, 2021 Musical polymath Tim Taylor shuffled off this mortal coil way back on May 23, 1997, killed in a car crash in his 30th year of… Continue Reading
Review: Black MIDI – “Cavalcade” June 24, 2021 Calculated tumult. No two words in the language English better sum up the much-anticipated second full-length LP from black midi, Britain’s more aspirational and… Continue Reading
Review: Damien Jurado – “The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania” June 10, 2021 “The world is a liar/ the stars are a must.” So whispers the iconic singer-songwriter Damien Jurado on the opener to The Monster Who… Continue Reading
Review: Loscil – “Clara” June 10, 2021 With Clara, the sound sculptor Scott Morgan continues to astound. Morgan’s latest LP as loscil – short, for the record, for “looping oscillator” –… Continue Reading
