Tycho : Infinite Health

Scott Hansen has been releasing music as Tycho since 2006, starting with debut Past Is Prologue. Tycho’s sound can be described as low key electronic. Elements of chillwave, ambient, post-rock, downtempo, and IDM. Don’t know what any of those mean? Well, imagine groovy electronic beats layered in dreamy synthesizers with touches of guitar, bass, and […]

“All The Children Are Scattered”

Been feeling everything a little heavy lately. It was a nice four-day weekend, albeit we skipped out on that Van Hagar concert Friday night. My wife and I decided that neither of us wanted to stand in a field at 93 degrees for three to four hours, so we opted to just pick up our […]

Umberto : Black Bile

Musician/composer Matt Hill, aka Umberto, started out releasing albums that felt like imagined soundtracks to horror and sci fi films. Pulling heavily from 70s Italian horror films you’d catch late night after everyone went to bed, his early albums had everything from Italio Disco, Giallo melodrama, and synth-heavy sci fi sounds. His moniker was taken […]

Too Damn Hot, Van HaGar Cometh, Ready For Fall

We’ve been in the midst of a late summer heat wave and I’m not liking it. Tuesday was a nearly all-time record high around here, with the heat index getting to 105 degrees. Listen, if I wanted to fry my brain walking to and from my car I’d live in Arizona, Louisiana, or Florida. As […]

White Hills : Beyond This Fiction

At this point the New York psych rock duo White Hills have become an institution. Muti-instrumentalists Dave W and Ego Sensation have for the better part of 20 years now been consistently writing, recording, and releasing rock and roll records that bring everything from psych, noise, industrial, garage, and Krautrock into their sound. This duo […]

Lotus : Synthbuljong

The European jazz/psych quartet Lotus’ debut release Synthbuljong is a force to be reckoned with. The band – which consists of percussionist Olaf Olsen (Fra Det Onde, Needlepoint), Chris Holm (Orions Belte, Sondre Lerches band), alto saxophonist Signe Emmeluth, and experimental electric guitarist Karl Bjorå – are not making your grandpa’s jazz music(unless grandpa was […]

Uniform : American Standard

Uniform is not for the weak of heart. Their music is a mixture of power drill guitars, industrial drums, and pained, shrieking vocals. Imagine bands like Godflesh, Ministry, and early NIN injected with Bane’s “Venom” and they roided out into an ominous extreme metal rage. That might be the tip of the iceberg for the […]

Juicer : Retire The Fences

Once in a while I come across an album that hits me hard with a quiet, melancholy simplicity. It locks into gorgeous pop sensibilities while never being too sweet and sunny for its own good. Bands like Wild Nothing, DIIV, Shy Boys, and Beach Fossils to name a few lock into sounds of old and […]

Get Lost In Creativity

I know I’ve posted about this kind of thing many, many, times over the past couple years, so bear with me. I think it’s an important part of living a life that feels fulfilled, which in turn makes us better, grounded people. Losing yourself in the process of making things is, in my opinion, what […]

Dream Division Returns Larger Than Life With ‘A Rose in the Garden of Winter’, Out 8/23; Listen To The Giallo Funk Of “Midnight Visions”

Tom Mcdowell has been making music as Dream Division for quite some time now. Starting out as a solo heavy synth project he’s allowed the project to evolve and mutate into something far more than its humble beginnings. From sci-fi synth dread to imagined soundtracks to classic horror literature to baroque ghost tales to 60s/70s […]