Review: Phirnis – Presence / Cadence
Austrian musician Phirnis has returned with a new album, one that has been many years in the making, and it is an epic one. Released by the German label TC5, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Review: Sewnshut – S/T
Sewnshut’s self titled release is one part lo fi techno, and one part introspective sound art, and a beautiful sounding record. The record opens with some bendy guitar (?) samples, …
Review: Baluchitherium – Lost Glasses, Empty Love
Sometimes it’s not good enough. You’re not sure what’s up, but something ain’t right. It could be the absence of something or too much of something else. There is a …
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Review: My Body, 'Tis of Thee Compilation
This excellent release from Nashville’s Centripetal Force brings together 10 diverse acts – the music here is definitely outsider material and covers genres from folk to electronica via cosmic psych …
Review: The Night Monitor – This House is Haunted
Resembling early 70s BBC Radiophonic Workshop, The Night Monitor’s This House is Haunted is a genuinely unsettling listen. Based on one of the most famous poltergeist cases in the UK, …
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