experimental

  • airing

    New England noise artist Derek Piotr has a new record on the way in may titled Airing. The track streaming above, “Colossus,” is the first to drop from it. Derek’s music has a bit of a love-hate relationship with accessibility. His tracks consciously avoid melody and tone as if

  • The elusive London-based electronica producer, Burial, drops a stellar set of new tracks on his latest EP. WATCH THE REVIEW

  • cover

    It’s been a while since something of this style really hit me, and I’m not sure if the project that created this song, nihiti, will do something like this again anytime soon. The reason being other tracks on this group’s SoundCloud are much more acoustic by comparison.

  • album

    Mirroring is a new collaborative project featuring two well-respected female musicians, Grouper and Tiny Vipers. For years, these two have been releasing music that encompasses the worlds of ambient music, folk, and psychedelia. It’ll be nice to hear how they impact one another on this forthcoming record. The album

  • MP3 Every time I hear a new track from West Coast rapper Kendrick Lamar, I just can’t help but admire this dude’s drive to do something new, fresh, and different with every single track. The beat here has a rattling hi-hat that gives it a slightly Southern Flavor.

  • 12"

    A cerebral progression of deep rhythms, sporadic tones and noises presented on this new track from Kyoka. This thing’s got a great groove, which is incredibly danceable, but the sounds used to execute are very bold and colorful. It’s got a mechanical, calculated vibe to it, but still

  • Though the second installment of Angels of Darkness, Demons of light fixes some of the issues I had with the first, I can’t seem to shake this incredibly strong feeling of musical deja vu. WATCH THE REVIEW

  • abstract

    Singer-songwriter Spencer Krug, a man known for his eccentric and drawn-out tunes in bands like Wolf Parade and Sunset Rubdown, has released a new track with his more experimental side project, Moonface. A new album has been announced. The title: Heartbreaking Bravery. It’s a collaboration with the band Siinai,

  • A track for the song “Cheerleader,” which comes off the latest St. Vincent album, Strange Mercy. The album made it onto my list of favorite albums from 2011, and you can check our review of it here. Look for this album now on 4AD. A lot like the video for

  • ambient

    mmpsuf is a Lithuanian electronic music duo someone turned me on to via the TND Facebook page. I breathe a sigh of relief every morning I wake up and see we’re still allowed to share music with one another on the Internet. Back on topic: The duo has a