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Stream: Kylesa – “Quicksand” The buzz around this new track is the it is very reminiscent of some old Smashing Pumpkins songs, this is true to the point that I could easily confuse it for one. The most notable feature of this is the guitar groove which lives and breathes Pumpkins,
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Accalmie by Black Polygons Combine a cute pop sensibility with rough, ambient textures, and you’ll begin to approach some semblance of what Black Polygons is going for on Accalmie. The twelve tracks on this relatively brief albums are difficult to sum up in a couple genre names, but their
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Stream: Saltland – “ICA” A mournful and desolate track from the forthcoming Saltland album, I Thought It Was Us But It Was All Of Us, which is dropping on Constellation Records this May. Saltland is basically spearheaded by Montreal cellist Rebecca Foon, which is a name Thee Silver Mt. Zion and
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On her latest installment of tracks–which were formulated at the time of 2008’s Dragging a Dead Dear Up a Hill–multi-instrumentalist Liz Harris brings another collection of ambient-style folk tracks that are opaque, shadowy, and extremely emotive. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Bongripper // Hate Split by Bongripper / Hate Chicago doom metal experimentalists Bongripper team up with the fast and furious hate for a quick split 45 that’s available on Bandcamp right freakin’ now! Stream it via the widget above, and enjoy! Check out a review for Bongripper’s Satan Worshipping Doom
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I first heard of Pete Swanson a few years ago when he blended the worlds of techno, noise, and drone together on the album Man With Potential. While the end product didn’t really move me, I did find the dude’s concept to be pretty interesting. Swanson is now
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“Your Cast Will Tire” is one of many shadowy and unsettling moments from the new Raime album, Quarter Turns Over a Living Line, which is out now via the fittingly titled Blackest Ever Black label. The seven tracks here toy with dark ambient soundscapes, pulsating beats, and some dub effects
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Here’s a track from a collaboration dropping on Nov. 20th via Software that has me pretty psyched. Tim Hecker and Daniel Lopatin are really at the top of their respective games right now when it comes to experimental and ambient music, and to hear the both of them collaborate
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Ambient music artist Jaime Fennely creates a series of tracks with the famed and 170-year-old harmonium on this new album, Check Your Swing. Some effects and other sounds seem to be used in the process, so I guess this isn’t strictly a harmonium album, but the instrument’s unique
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On 3:33’s latest effort, the experimental and drone-influenced beatmusic project widens its sonic frequency, and gets pretty ambitious with a 41-minute closing track. WATCH THE REVIEW
