Review: MAbH – On Being Pollinated
One of the arguments for the superiority of the 12” LP over other formats was the ability to include better artwork, that glorious 12” square cover, the liner notes large …
Video Premiere: Barbara Morgenstern – Juist / Poose
Few scenes in movie history capture the sense of urban alienation/melancholy/decay with the same palpability that the Pruitt-Igoe segment in Koyanisquatsi does. The helicopter hovering over abandoned buildings is quite …
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New Music Releases – November 2019: Pt. 1
First roundup of new releases coming out this November! Handpicked by our followers. Djunah – Ex Voto (Triple Eye Industries) Djnuah is an incredible band, their debut Ex Voto …
Review: C. Moody Crews – LA, 2000
Los Angeles is many different things to many different people. For those of us who have never been, it’s a place that holds a sort of mystique, a fictional world …
Video Premiere: Bloom de Wilde – Atlas Cassandra
If Bloom de Wilde, the subject of our video premiere, will ever blow up in a big way (and chances are, she just might) the first comparison you’ll hear 99% …
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Little Guide to Physical Formats for Independent Labels/Artists
Over those last few years there was no shortage of articles heralding the comeback of a cassette (The Guardian, more recently, but also Pitchfork and LA Times, to name just …
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Review: Closed Circuits – (Keys 2007-2018)
Keys (2007 – 2018) is a really interesting collection of sounds from Chris Page aka Closed Circuits, a Portugal-based experimental musician, gleaned from his back catalogue of ten years. Seemingly …
Review: Qualchan. – The End of All Seasons.
Words: Iain (Ghost Signs / Transpacifica) Modern music production is akin to magic, it’s all a trick to fool us into thinking something that didn’t take place did. These musicians …
Review: Incentive – Happiness
Lush and dense electronic soundscaping from Ohio resident Incentive tackles personal trauma and depression. If an individual’s soul could be writ large in music then Incentive has achieved this with …
Indie Label Roundtable #8 – Chant Records / Wormhole World / AnalogueTrash
Volume 8 of our series dedicated to independent record labels! This time our interviewees include Chant Records (US), Wormhole World (UK) and AnalogueTrash (UK). We highly recommend diving into ILR …
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