Pleasure-Voltage is a record that manages to balance the most relaxing aspects of ambient music along with the most psychedelic. The collaboration composed and performed by Benjamin Finger, James Plotkin, and Mia Zabelka engages the listener without coming on too strong. Too often in ambient records, I’ll hear sudden bursts of noise, drone, or what…
Consider supporting our writers via Paypal, Venmo and CashApp Adams/Bucko/Cunningham - Every Way But What Came To Mind Already Dead Tapes and Records Reviewed by J. Brodsky For all the micro-genre pissing contests held by fascist teenagers (and teenage-minded adults) in the comments of YouTube videos, on music forums, and within other, less savoury…
Tiny Magnetic Pets - The Politburo Disko EP Vitamin C The Politburo Disko EP by Tiny Magnetic Pets makes a strong case for new wave and synth-pop not being genres that are “over” or simply retro. I was really impressed with the sound design on this record. Starting the EP with “Enigma Code Variations…
Automatic Colors / Zero Gravity Tea Ceremony Reviewed by Austin Potter The groundhog predicted an early spring. I find that hard to believe when winter blues set in and drag on and on and on ad nauseam until I begin to question my sanity—my existence even. Who am I? What am I? Where am I? Further…
It always fucks me up when an album gets released at the end of a year. Just when I’m ready to wipe the dust from my hands and prepare for the lull of early year doldrums, out comes a banger from Terry Six and Louie Bankston; right at the buzzer. …A Thousand Guitars is their…
Words and vocals. Any singer, songwriter, rapper, speech giver, PRESIDENT!!! worth their salt knows that both are extremely important together. Tossing them out recklessly communicates being flippant, but using them both communicates so much. Anger, strength, sadness, resignation, lack of seriousness. The power of words is all in not just what you say, what you…
