Pye Corner Audio : Hollow Earth

Man, what took me so long to find my way to Pye Corner Audio? Seriously, I’ve heard the name for years now from folks that seemingly matter, yet I never heeded their advice. Like whispers in darkened corners and strange messages left on the front stoop written on hotel stationary that simply reads “Pye Corner […]

Fourteen

I remember my 14th birthday like it was yesterday. It was the birthday my parents bought me my first electric guitar. It was a 1986 Squier Stratocaster. Blue with white pickguard. They’d bought it with the help of my guitar teacher at the time Jim Howie from Paradise Music Store. In my hometown at that […]

Light And Dark : The Sonic World of Record Label Soundtracking The Void

It really is the time of the record label, isn’t it? There are so many great, smaller labels that have stepped out of the ether over the last decade to blow our minds and empty our wallets. Labels like Death Waltz Originals, Tiger Lab Vinyl, Holodeck Records, Burning Witches Records, El Paraiso Records, Data Airlines, […]

Phantoms vs Fire : WLDLFE

One of the most intriguing and beguiling releases last year was Phantoms vs Fires’s Swim(released via Burning Witches Records.) That album seemed to absorb everything it came into contact with and reflected it back to the listener in some beautifully alien way. It was an electronic album that sounded to be built out of individual […]

Panda Bear : Buoys

Panda Bear, aka Noah Lennox, could never be accused of being boring. He pushes the boundaries of electronic and experimental pop music both in Animal Collective and with his solo records. His 2007 masterstroke Person Pitch influenced an entire generation of young indie rock musicians to buy a minimoog and sampler and write about their […]

Random Grab : Le Matos’ ‘Chronicles of the Wasteland/Turbo Kid’ S/T

Le Matos came into my life at a very strange time. In late January of 2016 I had my local record shop order in a few albums for me. They weren’t ones I was really familiar with, but ones I was curious about. Law Unit with Antoni Maiovvi and Matt Hill, Jodorowsky’s Dune S/T by […]

Eerie Family : S/T

I imagine if Jack Skellington and Sally from The Nightmare Before Christmas started a band based on a mutual love of 50s rock and roll, Low, Suicide, and X then I think it would sound like Eerie Family. Eerie Family is Alex Cuervo and Alyse Mervosh, the husband and wife duo from Hex Dispensers, as […]

Nika Moroz : Come To Your Senses

The latest release from forward-thinking electronic music label Soundtracking The Void comes from Nika Moroz. Who is Nika Moroz? I honestly have no idea. There’s hints that she comes from Belarus and originally started out playing guitar and flute(check out the source here, courtesy of The Waveform Transmitter.) Despite knowing little to nothing about this […]

Kevin Hambrick : Clitter and the Clatter

My good friend and fellow music writer DM Jones once said of Kevin Hambrick, “Psychedelic rockers, guitar-pop nuggets and poignant acoustic numbers coexist easily in Hambrick’s world.” No truer statement could be made of the musical world of Kevin Hambrick. He’s been a Fort Wayne music staple for the better part of the 21st century, […]

worriedaboutsatan : revenant

worriedaboutsatan work between the lines. They build quietly, methodically, and with great intention. The musical world of Thomas Ragsdale and Gavin Miller is all about subtlety and nuance, with a quiet dread just under the surface that’s never explained, just understood. Dense electronic music with hints of techno, post-rock, ambient, and downtempo, worriedaboutsatan set a […]