Repeated Viewing : The Family

Leave it to the maestro Alan Sinclair to elevate us all with a sickly sinister slab of synth. As Repeated Viewing, Sinclair has created a vast library of imagined scores to films that seem to have been torn from my own twisted imagination. As far as dark, heavy synth music goes Repeated Viewing raises the […]

Dogs Versus Shadows : The Importance Of Elsewhere

Producer Lee Pylon’s dogs versus shadow project is not for the average passing listener. Less an album of electronic music and more like transmissions from the beyond, his Waxing Crescent Records debut The Importance of Elsewhere is skittering static and disembodied voices from another dimension. It’s as if Pylon opened lines of communication with realms […]

Sankofa : BLKTCHP

Does MC Sankofa sleep? Is there any downtime for this Midwest rapper? If you check out the list of albums he’s been putting out at a record pace I’d say no. If he’s not plotting the next album with some killer production courtesy of some amazing producer friends, he’s dropping videos of him freestyling over […]

Tom Petty : Angel Dream(Songs And Music From The Motion Picture “She’s The One”)

2016 and 2017 were pretty rough years as far as losing iconic artists. 2016 saw the deaths of David Bowie and Prince, with 2017 taking from us Chris Cornell and Tom Petty. I felt all of those losses as I was a huge fan of each of them, but Tom Petty hits the hardest for […]

The Flaming Lips : The Soft Bulletin Companion

The Flaming Lips were in serious flux in 1997. After guitarist Ronald Jones left the band the remaining members, Wayne Coyne, Michael Ivins, and Steve Drozd, seriously wondered if the band was done. This led to a certain amount of artistic freedom. With no expectations of hits or standard album form the three, along with […]

Harglow : RE(Hexed + Dacted)

“The recordings you are about to experience have no known origin.”-Outpost 31 Studios One of the most interesting albums I heard in 2018 was Harglow’s debut album. An album of electronic music that was equal parts dark industrial and Satanic incantations. It was an album I deep dived into heavily, until my wife found me […]

The Unseen : The Goatman

The latest release from Tom McDowell’s Library Of The Occult label is a “lost soundtrack” of sorts, this time from the band The Unseen(Klaus Morlock). Locking into a mixture of late 60s psychedelia, Gothic ambient, and just enough of those things that go bump in the night, The Goatman sounds otherworldly and aged like a […]

Justin Sweatt : When The Light Goes

Justin Sweatt is a weary traveler in this world. He looks around with an artist’s heart and a writer’s mind, capturing what he sees and interprets it through electronic music. Sweatt might consider himself a cynic, but I’d say he’s more of a stoic. The bitter of life doesn’t escape him, but he doesn’t let […]

Outpost 31 Studios Presents: Quarantine Cuts Volume 1

Oklahoma-based record label Outpost 31 Studios presents to you, the listener, Quarantine Cuts Volume 1. What is this “Quarantine Cuts” you ask? It’s an 11-track collection of songs bringing together artists from all over the states, as well as Europe. A coming-together of vibes and sonic delights that range from jagged rock to ethereal tones […]

Hawksmoor : On Prescription

Hawksmoor, aka musical marvel James McKeown, has had one hell of a year, folks. Last year he dropped one of the best electronic albums of 2020 in Methods of Dreaming, a coming together of classic 70s Komische vibes and prog rock tendencies that seemed to show us what a collaboration between Tangerine Dream and Genesis […]