Ned Lagin's 'Seastones: Set 4 and Set 5' Reissue Sheds Light on a Proto-Ambient Classic

Published Sep 01, 2020

In 1975, before the giants of ambient music released their seminal albums, Ned Lagin would give us his Seastones collection, whose minimalis...

Ervin Omsk Creates Disorienting Soundscapes on 'Peilen'

Published Apr 24, 2020

Ervin Omsk is Sven Fritz, a visual artist from Germany who has turned his hand to creating electronic compositions that defy form and struct...

White Poppy Shows Off Her Pop Side on 'Paradise Gardens'

Published Apr 24, 2020

White Poppy — a.k.a. British Columbia's Crystal Dorval — is best known for dreamy pop soundscapes drenched in reverb, saturated with lo-fi r...

Markus Floats Moves His Electronic Explorations Forward on 'Third Album'

Published Apr 17, 2020

With his lively blips and pleasing, resolute drones, Third Album by Markus Floats, a.k.a. Montreal composer Markus Lake, conveys a sense of...

Ian William Craig Red Sun Through Smoke

Published Mar 24, 2020

Art that is initially created to remember a specific moment or event, but ends up forming a powerful narrative beyond the metaphorical walls...

Jon Hassell Vernal Equinox

Published Mar 24, 2020

While the trumpet is often synonymous with some of the greatest jazz of all time, Jon Hassell's trumpet has forged a different path, toward...

Prolaps Pure Mud Volume 7

Published Mar 18, 2020

It is unclear if previous volumes only exist somewhere in the depths of dark souls, but Prolaps's Pure Mud Volume 7 is a shit-show of hypera...

JOYFULTALK A Separation of Being

Published Mar 10, 2020

Having previously brandished dark and moody trance meditations, Nova Scotian composer and visual artist Jay Crocker has hatched something fa...

Saroos OLU

Published Mar 04, 2020

In certain circles, the phrase "beat tape" conjures up simple, endless, repetitive, mind-numbing rhythms that do little to even locate the i...

Leo Takami Felis Catus and Silence

Published Feb 26, 2020

The opening notes and subsequently the majority of Leo Takami's third full-length album enthusiastically invites us to explore his sonic pai...

Jacoti Sommes Travel Time

Published Feb 12, 2020

It's not entirely clear if Ohio's Jacoti Sommes is travelling to Mars or leaving it. Either way, his newest effort, Travel Time, is a fun fu...

CEL CEL

Published Feb 12, 2020

Immediately restless, CEL's debut partnership looks to challenge the norms with recognizable forms. Felix Kubin is a German electro-pop arti...

Long Distance Poison Technical Mentality

Published Jan 29, 2020

Operating as Long Distance Poison, Nathan Cearley and Erica Bradbury manipulate modular and analogue synths into sustained drone exploration...

Jason McMahon Odd West

Published Jan 29, 2020

It seems a little strange to be releasing your first solo album after 38 years of playing in original contemporary bands like the Skeletons,...

YlangYlang Interplay

Published Jan 29, 2020

Catherine Debard's YlangYlang project has seen an abundance of excellent releases since her initial offering in 2012. Her catalogue is also...

Robert Haigh Black Sarabande

Published Jan 21, 2020

Often discussed in the same musical conversations as Harold Budd and Erik Satie, Robert Haigh's storied career reads like an almanac of ambi...

Pulse Emitter Swirlings

Published Jan 14, 2020

Pulse Emitter is Daryl Groetsch, and he has released a plethora of soundscapes and synth journeys over his career. His latest, fittingly tit...

Valgeir Sigurðsson The County

Published Jan 08, 2020

Something is very wrong at "The Dairy Farm," or at least this is the sentiment Valgeir Sigurðsson evokes with his soundtrack for The County,...

Local Talent Higienópolis

Published Jan 03, 2020

So much of jazz and modern composed music is recorded with crisp clarity and high sonic fidelity, but this is not necessarily Higienópolis's...