Andy Fosberry : When Comfort Is Stranger

Andy Fosberry makes visual music. His albums are filled with a series of emotional sketches. Fosberry works in film scoring, but even when it’s not for someone else’s vision the music feels cinematic. Vast soundscapes that feel like grand orchestrations one minute, the next they’re intimate swaths of piano and strings. But always with a […]

Thelonious Monk : Palo Alto

In 1968 Thelonious Monk was in poor health, with little money in the bank, and sadly seen in the jazz world as “stale” and “out of touch” by the jazz snobs at Downbeat Magazine(the same ones that thought Miles Davis was violating jazz protocol with the masterpiece Bitches Brew.) Thelonious Monk, the man who just […]

Matt Glass : 12 Hour Shift Soundtrack

The new horror/dark comedy 12 Hour Shift tells the story of a nurse(played by Angela Bettis) who is a drug addict and involved in a black market organ trafficking ring. On one particular evening the organ delivery is mishandled and Bettis’ nurse Mandy scrambles to find a replacement organ. Insanity and mayhem ensue. The film […]

Sufjan Stevens : The Ascension

On Sufjan Stevens follow-up to 2015s ornate and personal Carrie & Lowell, the singer-songwriter returns to his extended electronic compositions. At one hour and twenty minutes The Ascension can feel dense and at times hard to get all the way thru in one sitting, but with patience comes the rewards. Much like Stevens 2010 opus […]

Isvisible Isinvisible : Moon-White Water(re-mixes)

Now this is something you don’t see everyday. A remix album for an album that has yet to be released. Is that like putting the cart before the horse? A greatest hits before the first album is released? I don’t know, but when it’s Isvisible Isinvisible I think all bets are off. And when he’s […]

Dream Division : Beyond The Mirror’s Image

Tom McDowell is a man that doesn’t rest. As Dream Division he is constantly writing, recording, and creating musical worlds of darkness and beauty. Heavy synth-based music that covers the far reaches of space to dark catacombs filled with spirits long trapped in our world. His work touches on classic horror and sci-fi scores of […]

Hawksmoor : Methods of Dreaming

I was sick a lot as a kid. I spent the week of Christmas 1976 in an oxygen tent with Pneumonia. I was three. My parents found out a couple years later I had severe allergies which was what brought on all the respiratory issues I was suffering from. That led to allergy shots and […]

Justin Pinkerton : Aak’ab

There’s a warm, comforting world that lives in Justin Pinkerton’s newest release Aak’ab. The modular sound here feels like a circuital blanket to warm us in these troubling times. When things seem so hopeless and we in turn feel helpless, the synth-based tracks that make up this record are a temporary reprieve from the madness […]

Fra Det Onde : Feat. the Legendary Emil Nikolaisen

Fra Det Onde translates to “From Evil”, and while I wouldn’t say there’s something nefarious about this amazing spaced-out jazz set there is definitely something otherworldly. Drummer Olaf Olsen, bassist Rune Nergaard, and trumpeter Erik Kimestad Pedersen all have miles and miles of musical road between them, working in the free jazz and experimental music […]

Omni Gardens : Moss King

Omni Gardens’ West Coast Escapism from 2018 was one of my favorite albums of that year. I’d never really given new age music much thought prior to that record. There was this idea that formed in my brain early on that new age music was the scent of incense and was made by guys that […]