Review – Velum Break – caprolactam
This record is like driving through a city, all light and sound flying past. Much like all good IDM most of this record would fit perfectly set to anime edits. …
Review – Chernaya Lentochka – Primus
Chernaya Lentochka’s album Primus provides hopeful post-punk energy without feeling overwhelming. Maybe the language barrier is preventing me from hearing the true meaning of these songs, but sonically Primus feels …
Review – VA (Valentino Arco) by Danny Playamaqui
Oh that’s a lot of tracks. Like, way more tracks than I expected. And they’re all named after food? Spices? Welcome to Danny Playamaqui. So one day on twitter I’m …
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Blog Summary – April 2018
Read our interview with Dylan Carlson (Earth) and/or listen to his new album Conquistador See some of the things we saw at Big Ears 2018: Kieran Hebden (Four Tet) and …
Review – Lana Del Rabies – Shadow World
Before I give you the skinny about this album, I thought I would just offer a really helpful PSA: you don’t just listen to a Lana Del Rabies album. If …
Review – Andrew W.K. – You're Not Alone
Leave it to Andrew W.K. to make even being emotionally vulnerable seem like a party. For those who have known Andrew W.K. as a character, he was a supposed party …
Review – Waterman Fragment – S/T
A sermon for the damned. Coming together like some radical preacher of the coming doom, Waterman Fragment has my attention. Stretching out tension in relevant sparks and droning a tooth …
Reviews – Oxykitten, Larry Wish, Lips and Ribs (Field Hymns Records)
[easy-image-collage id=40839] Oxykitten is Justin Case of Portland Oregon. Justin has a lot of synths and an ear for a tune. Across the eleven tracks of this cassette-only release, there …
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Review – Dead Trains – County Road Bound
Grab your bag, you’re runnin’ late. Dead Trains bring to you County Road Bound, the latest in Hillbilly Hardcore from Allston area. In a Boston neighborhood becoming famous for a …
Review – Jason Wietlispach – Oak Creek Recordings (Soutrane, 2018)
Where have all the philosophers gone? They’re still out there, of course. Intelligence – though seemingly in widespread recession – isn’t extinct: it’s simply multiplied. Gentrified. Found a change of …
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