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Because posting about one album on Type Records today isn’t enough, here’s a stream of the new Pete Swanson album. You may remember him from the now defunct noise and drone duo Yellow Swans. On this new album of Pete’s–which I believe is the second he’
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Red Horse is an intense improvisational noise duo. They’re made up of percussionist Eli Keszler and guitarist Steve Pyne. The five tracks they’ve pulled together on this debut album are pretty fantastic. They highlight everything I love about noise, live instrumentation, and improvisation. The music here ranges from
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A track from the new Loops Haunt EP, Ark, which drops today. The song streaming above is the title track, and it’s a pretty intense listen. This producer manages to pull together a plethora of mind-bending sounds in just under five minutes. Some of them are pretty deep and
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Sacred Places by Amenta A new EP from the up-and-coming singer Amenta. This release is titled Sacred Places, and it’s loaded with spacey beats, glistening synths, and soulful female vocals. There are elements of R&B, jazz, soul, and beat music floating throughout this thing. It’s as
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MP3 Doug is a Florida-born MC whose eccentric personality makes for a pretty good listen. The dude finds lyrical inspiration in everything from traffic to the speed of life on the track streaming above, “No Rush.” The jazzy beat is manipulated for maximum atmosphere, and it brings a spacey feel
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For the past few years, the 80s have been a carcass the indiesphere is desperately picking over like a group of starving buzzards. However, that doesn’t mean these more nostalgic releases don’t have their bright spots. So, here’s a track from the forthcoming Choir of Young Believers
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Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington release a new EP together via Jaar’s label, Clown & Sunset. Stream the whole thing via the widget above, and grab it here.
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Tomorrow, Kate Bush will be releasing the album 50 Words For Snow. Of course, she already had an album release earlier this year, but this album will be the first LP of completely new studio material since 2005’s Aerial. “Wild Man” is the first track to drop from the
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The Burial of the Dead by Axel Thesleff On his debut album, Axel Thesleff is doing a lot with a little. The music’s self-produced sound didn’t exactly stun my ears, but the creativity and ambition shown in tracks like the one above did. The 12-minute “the Burial of
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Elder is a Massachusetts rock band, and 2011 saw the release of its sophomore album, Dead Roots Stirring. It’s out now via MeteorCity, and the song above comes from it. Even though this track, “Gemini,” feeds into a few stereotypes for this genre, I can’t help but find
