Antoni Maiovvi : Psychonaut

Listening to Antoni Maiovvi’s brand new album Psychonaut is a visceral experience. It seems to embody all those darkly perfect musical twists and turns we’ve come to love from the horror score/Giallo Disco/imagined soundtrack provocateur. Ominous ambient pieces, sweaty disco synth, and beautifully built synth pop all wrapped up in an all-encompassing musical journey. Maiovvi […]

Jonas Munk : Mirror Phase

Fall is upon us. It’s the time of year where everything seems to slow to quiet contemplation as the leaves turn and die. Slow motion diving as their brittle remains dust the forest floors and residential lawns in a last act of authority and condemnation. Fall brings chilled walks in the mornings and evenings while […]

The Hard Quartet : The Hard Quartet

I think the majority of folks coming across the new music project The Hard Quartet would scoff at it being called a “supergroup”. But those with their heads in the world of early 90s college/alternative rock would think the label apropos. The band – which consists of Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus, Chavez and Superwolve’s Matt Sweeney, […]

The Smile : Cutouts

The Smile -the Radiohead side project of Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood- shouldn’t work as well as it does. Like Yorke’s solo albums and Greenwood’s film scores they are great listening experiences, but we’re always waiting for them to get back together with their Radiohead counterparts and give us another masterpiece. Since 2022 Yorke and […]

Justin Sweatt : North Texas Electric

Justin Sweatt has been making forward-thinking electronic music for well over a decade. He first began making electronic music as Xander Harris, releasing a collection of classic electronic music that ranged from darkly illuminated techno to hazy ambient to 80s-inspired synth pop with a touch of 70s German electronic pioneers for good measure. But then […]

The Cure (Finally)Return With ‘Songs Of A Lost World’, Out 11/1; Listen To “Alone”

It’s been 16 long years since The Cure released an album. 4:13 Dream dropped in 2008, and while not an awful album it was disappointing. There were great songs there, but they seemed to have been muddled in murky production and a somewhat lack of focus on the part of The Cure’s leader/front man/songwriter Robert […]

Jonas Munk Returns With ‘Mirror Phase’, Out 10/25; Listen to Album Opener “Dawn Layer”

Jonas Munk has long been a master of mood-heavy electronics; be it with his past project Manual, his masterful ambient collaborations with Ulrich Schnauss and Billow Observatory, and of course his solo work like Pan and Absorb Fabric Cascade. He knows the instruments like he knows the backs of his hands, and he uses guitars […]

Black Wick : \\VIDEO//|\\DRONED//

I get a lot of invites from labels to check out their latest releases. I check out as many as I can given the volume, plus the fact that I have a pretty jam packed life outside of writing about music. But the main reason I started doing this back in late 2011 was because […]

Repeated Viewing : Strip Their Flesh + The Artefact

Ahh, the double feature. There’s nothing quite like pairing up a couple horror movies for a sleazy horror marathon. The first double feature I can remember seeing was at the Warsaw Drive-In when I was probably 4-years old. For some unknown reason my parents thought it’d be a good idea to pack me and my […]

Peel Dream Magazine : Rose Main Reading Room

Peel Dream Magazine is what I would call intellectual pop. The L.A.-based band has effortlessly swayed through Krautrock, shoegaze, twee pop, and dream pop throughout their four full-length albums. Each one saw sonic expansion and a deeper connection to storytelling via band leader and songwriter Joseph Stevens. Stevens incorporates everything from early 90s college rock […]