2012
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On their debut full-length, extreme music supergroup Murder Construct releases what will probably be my favorite grindcore album of 2012. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Working with the spacious and slow jam-inspired sound that was defined on 2011’s With U EP, Holy Other is now taking his style to the full-length format. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Electronic music producer Four Tet assembles the 12″ house singles he’s been sporadically releasing throughout the year, and places ’em on this new compilation, Pink. WATCH THE REVIEW
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With modern cameras capable of capturing colors we don’t even have names for, the decision to shoot in black-and-white is not a decision to be made lightly. In his video for the David Byrne/St. Vincent collaborative song “Who,” director Martin de Thurah not only uses black-and-white to establish
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Los Angeles beat maestro The Gaslamp Killer is readying his first proper full-length album for a September 18 release via Brainfeeder. The record will be called Breakthrough, and features guest contributions from Gonjasufi, Samiyam, Shigeto, Dimlite, Daedelus, and several others. The latter is featured on the most recent track to
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When the adjective optimistic is used to describe electronic pop music, the sounds of treacly, unimaginative boy-girl duos with musical knowledge so primitive they make Beat Happening look like Beethoven in comparison often come to mind. A highly welcome change of pace, Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Altar Eagle pen mature, subtle
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By clicking play on the widget above, you won’t be listening to a song. Instead you’ll be listening to a sonic painting. The reason I make this distinction is because the music was not written simply to be a pleasantly arranged series of notes. Instead it is a
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Years Past Matter by Krallice Black metal experimentalists Krallice release their fourth full-length album, Years Past Matter, and it’s definitely a step up from the New York band’s last album, Diotima, in my opinion–at least from a production standpoint. Every drum hit and tremolo-picked guitar lead on
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Rangda drops a new track from its forthcoming album on Drag City, Formerly Extinct.
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Indie folk outfit Villagers has a new single out titled “the Waves,” which features an extremely surprising change of direction for the band whose previous efforts were mostly humbling, sad, singer-songwriter tunes with baroque instrumentation and a Bright Eyes-esque personality. This new track, though, features loads of electronics, louder instrumentation,
