Review: Phono Ghosts – Warm Pad, Sharp Stab
Words: Mike Stanton // @DepartmentEss Hailing from that part of the UK where the skies are usually ashen grey and the air pulses with rain, Phono Ghosts pierces the gloom …
Review: Tashi Dorji / John Dieterich – Midden
News from the frontal lobe: Good Evening. Our program directors have informed us that between our regularly scheduled self-destructive behavior (i.e. intropunitive thoughts & actions) we bring you the collaboration …
Review: Glacier – No Light Ever
So let’s just throw our cards on the table right now just so you know where we stand and if you want to read further. This is without a doubt …
Review: ShopLand World: Music for a Discovery Park of Miniature Supermarkets
This recent compilation by the Strategic Tape Reserve is a daunting release, so I decided to break it down track by track. Nicholas Langley – Prelude One Very pretty …
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Review: Lingua Ignota – Caligula
“Biblical” in the both senses of the word. This is an immense, inspiring, frightening, absorbing genre-defying meisterwerk (yep, I’m going down the rabbit hole, be warned). The traces of classical, …
Review: Sawak – Renunciant
Renunciant by Sawak is unlike any album I’ve ever heard before. The album opens up with some wonderful drone and melody, before descending into a bit of noise madness, then …
Review: Steep Leans – Naukeag
Naukeag has a comforting old school indie rock vibe to it. On his second album, Steep Leans (Jeffrey Gray Somers) creates a lovely atmosphere that brings to mind earlier Wilco …
Review: Cigar for Castro – S/T
Typically a prospect of listening and describing extra-long tracks/jams fills me with dread – an hour of unvaried harsh noise, anyone? Not so much in the case of this peculiarly …
Review: Dax Pierson – Live In Oakland
Don’t take your technical abilities for granted or you will lose them at the snap of the neck. It’s as fitting as it is sobering that Dax had to open …
Review Batch – Padang Food Tigers / Aldous Harding / His Name Is Alive / German Army
Padang Food Tigers – Wake Up, Mr. Pancake On Wake Up, Mr Pancake, Padang Food Tigers deliver an enjoyable album of ambient folk music. Lulling guitars and banjos connote …
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