Midas Fall | Evaporate | Monotreme Records Release date: April 27th 2018 Review by Jenna Dreisenstock Hands clasped in royal blue; the kindness of unseeing mist, sleeping in palms. Of caverns within and the cold grey, phantasm bodies as stalagmites. Reverberation in effect-soaked bloom, emerald green pines in the howling
album review / Classical / Electronic / experimental / IDM / Midas Fall / Monotreme Records / Post-Rock / Shoegaze
Chrome Sparks | Chrome Sparks | Counter Records Release date: April 13th 2018 Review by Jenna Dreisenstock An expression of growth and unbridled immersion in the new; yearning – a whole auditory world in which to embrace, the overwhelm of beauty in possibility. A delicate separation of sound within itself.
Angelica Bess / Chrome Sparks / Counter Records / Electronic / Electropop / Graham Ulicny / Kllo / New York / Review / Synthpop / USA
Zola Jesus | Okovi: Additions | Sacred Bones Records Release date: April 6th 2018 Review by Jenna Dreisenstock A phantasm of self, cloaked in black ambience through a traverse of the inner; the worlds built within us, the banshee of dissonant human experience. An industrial drone of the classical; our
Henry Green | Shift | Akira Records Release date: March 30th 2018 Review by Jenna Dreisenstock A sunlit fall into stillness holds a stagnancy within it; a quiet moment to reflect on oneself, to know oneself – or an envelop of that silence. The heaviness of hyper-awareness in the still,
Akira Records / ambient / Bristol / Electronic / experimental / Henry Green / Post-Rock / Review / United Kingdom
Mint Field | Pasar de las Luces | Innovative Leisure Release date: February 23rd 2018 Review by Jenna Dreisenstock Otherworldly immersion; a caress, the reflection of oneself a ghost in fading. To reach out a hand, glass cold to touch, a projection of the world living within; otherworldly being, shadow
Electronic / experimental / Innovative Leisure / Mexico / Mint Field / post-punk / Review / Shoegaze / Tijuana
GusGus | Lies Are More Flexible | OROOM Release date: February 23rd 2018 Review by Jenna Dreisenstock Reverberation of synthetic texture and geometric groove; hypnotic immersion in the echo of progressive, unraveling experimentation – a delve into the past and learned influence and powerful breakthrough of the present. Rhythmic loops
Biggi Veira / Daniel Ágúst / Electronic / experimental / GusGus / Iceland / OROOM / Review / Reykjavik / Synthwave / Techno
Son Lux | Brighter Wounds | City Slang Release date: February 9th 2018 Review by Jenna Dreisenstock Stretch your arms out before you; uncurl the clench of your fist. Pull your fingers taut; watch the stars spill from your palms; the glittering, the blind. The push and pull of action.
Brighter Wounds / City Slang / Electronic / experimental / New York / Pop / Post-Rock / Review / Son Lux / USA
Nils Frahm | All Melody | Erased Tapes Release date: January 26th 2018 Review by Jenna Dreisenstock Vast open spaces within a constraint. Worlds within a wooden bowl; a four walled reverberation of sound; bouncing, rolling, caressing each object as it produces its unique timbre. Layered sounds presented back to
album review / All Melody / Classical / Electronic / Erased Tapes / experimental / Germany / Hamburg / Nils Frahm
Nabihah Iqbal | Weighing of the Heart | Ninja Tune Release date: December 1st 2017 Review by Jenna Dreisenstock Ghosts; spectral beings in limbo of a heavy heart. A levitation of internal, eternal noise; entities of our past selves, bleeding into one another. Phantasm bodies we wait – weight, the
Electronic / experimental / London / Nabihah Iqbal / Ninja Tune / post-punk / Review / Shoegaze / United Kingdom
sgrow | Circumstance | NO FOREVERS Release date: 10 November 2017 Review by Jenna Dreisenstock We hold in our hands the former; flare touch, gleaming crystal reflection – ourselves beneath a sheet of glass, a picture frame. It shimmers in the grasp of what we cling to, or what the
