The Minor Tough : A Few Thoughts On Spoon

Featured Photo by Oliver Halfin With Spoon recently dropping a best of collection, that got me thinking about the rock band from Austin. In the last 20 years there have been just a handful of bands that I’ve obsessed over. Wilco, the Flaming Lips, Tangerine Dream, Steely Dan, and Spoon. There have been others that […]

Spoon : Everything Hits at Once//The Best of Spoon

It’s hard to believe Spoon have been around long enough to warrant releasing a ‘best of’ collection, but here we are. It’s 2019 and Spoon have just released a 13-track collection of tracks that cover from 2001s Girls Can Tell clear up to 2017s Hot Thoughts. Everything Hits at Once: The Best of Spoon is […]

Jonas Munk & Nicklas Sorensen : Always Already Here

I spent the afternoon in some musty old record shop on a nondescript side street for an afternoon deep dive into gatefold sleeves and incense-laced air. Checking the “electronic” bin I come across cats like Cluster, Kluster, Tangerine Dream, Terry Riley, Klaus Schulze, and Jonas Munk & Nicklas Sorensen. Jonas Munk and Nicklas Sorensen? Never […]

INUIT : IIAALI

Italian native Marco Santucci de Magistris, aka INUIT, takes a deep dive on his debut release IIAALI on the always amazing Aural Canyon Records. IIAALI is one of those albums that allows you to close out the world and lock in with something deeper and something bigger than you. Through the use of synthesizers, de […]

Isvisible Isinvisible : indexOf (vol.1)

Simon Pott, aka Isvisible Isinvisible, works in the studio as if he’s a mad scientist. Twisting knobs and connecting circuital boxes with wires, Pott works a kind of musical magic in the realm of modular synthesizers. What looks like madness to the uninitiated, is really sort of a controlled chaos of compositional majesty. If you […]

Ty Segall : First Taste

Ty Segall is back with a new album. Coming down from the T. Rex grooves and Detroit City rock/funk of Freedom’s Goblin, his newest First Taste looks a little more inward. Segall still knows how to shake a tail feather or two, but this feels less like an extroverted peacock and more like a cautionary […]

Videodrones : Atavistic Future

Videodrones work in swaths of synth and analog dread. From their beginnings in 2016 with Mondo Ferox, the electronic duo which consists of Jakob Skøtt and Kristoffer Ovesen, relied on Betamax memories of grainy horror and sci fi flicks and the world of music composers like Popol Vuh, Fabio Frizzi, and the modular synth excursions […]

Moon Duo’s “Stars Are The Light”

Ripley Johnson and Sanae Yamada, aka Moon Duo, have always dabbled in music that carries a certain physicality to it. Underneath the electro beats, slinky keys, and jangly guitars there lies the beating heart of movement. Dance floor excursions, that is. It was never apparent that Moon Duo were purveyors of dance music, as they […]

Missions : Subcreature

There’s a nocturnal feel to Missions full-length debut album Subcreature. A neon glow the emanates like reflections on seedy city streets when the safety of daylight is its furthest distance from you. Dark electro beats and subtle synth structures make a musical narrative for electronic vocals to slink along with. Missions, aka Los Angeles-based musician […]

My Rainbow Connection

There’s two very distinct cinema memories I have as a kid. One of them was seeing Star Wars when I was 4, and the other was The Muppet Movie when I was 5. After those two it’s a mish mash of good, bad, and in-between. But those two first movies left an indelible mark on […]

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