Kuma : Time Makes Memory Of Us All

Kuma’s musical world on Time Makes Memory Of Us All is a curious one indeed. It feels as if Kuma, a Canadian producer/DJ, is opening a portal to some strange world that’s grappling with a fight between the organic and the synthetic. Moving away from his dubstep roots, Kuma dabbles in the world of ambient […]

Step Out Of Reality With The Psychic Circle; Listen To “View From The Magicians Window Part 1”

UK-based record label Library Of The Occult has been offering up dark, synth-driven music since its introduction this past summer. New music from Dream Division, Ogre, and Timothy Fife has delved into classic Gothic literature, occult themes, D&D, and contact with worlds beyond our own. LOTO has made it its mission to keep the spirit […]

Metz : Atlas Vending

METZ have been making angular swaths of post-punk noise for a few years now. Over the course of three full-lengths and a handful of EPs and singles, the Canadian trio of guitarist and vocalist Alex Edkins, bassist Chris Slorach and drummer Hayden Menzies have honed their sound from unhinged anxiety and pent-up rage to an […]

Please Stand By

This week is the annual family trip down south to Brown County, Indiana. I guess technically it’s not an annual trip as last year we went to Canada, and the year before that I’m not sure we went anywhere. So, the last time we were in Brown County was three summers ago. We got a […]

Further Into Your Moods and Thoughts : Keith Canisius Talks Shortwave Broadcaster

Keith Canisius has been pretty busy the last few months. During lockdown he’s released two albums under the name Shortwave Broadcaster, an ambient project that takes heavily-effected guitar and turns it into something ethereal. Strings awash in modulation, reverb, and delay that transform into swaths of gorgeous sound. Long, expansive tracks that spread out into […]

Com Truise Returns With ‘In Decay, Too’; Listen To “False Ascendancy”

Com Truise is one of those artists I can listen to pretty much any time. There’s never really a moment where those big synths, rattling bass, and electro drums don’t wake something in my brain. Maybe it’s like an IV drip of nostalgia into my vein. A portal to the early 80s and a childhood […]

Flyover Sounds : Mari Vander’s “Apathy”

So who is Mari Vander? Well, I can tell you that she’s a singer/songwriter out of the River City, aka Fort Wayne, Indiana. Outside of that there’s not much info. Before the song I’m about to share with you today Vander recorded Lullaby(The Demo Album), which is acoustic demo tracks that have the raw intimacy […]

Fir Cone Children Returns With ‘Waterslide At 7 A.M.’ Out 10/30; Listen To “Panic in The Mansion”

The musical world of Fir Cone Children is a mixture of bittersweet joy and melancholy longing, all wrapped up in a dream punk/shoegaze swirl. Alexander Donat keeps Fir Cone Children as an output for light and life, where his other project Vlimmer works more in post-punk and Gothic shades. While many struggled to hold it […]

El Paraiso Records’ Wild Ride

I’ve been following the Danish record label El Paraiso Records for close to seven years now. Ever since a friend hipped me to a band called Causa Sui and their album Euporie Tide. From the moment I hit play on that stunning album I’ve gladly followed both the band and the label down their very […]