Heavy-hearted in the Midwest since 2011
By now if you’ve been a semi-regular reader here then chances are you’ve heard of SFI Recordings. If you’re not a regular reader and stumbled by because you searched “anxiety”, “Midwest”, “sad, middle-aged guy”, or “heavy synth”, then welcome! Glad you stumbled upon my little spot along the information super highway. Regardless if you’re a […]
Read More Cosmic Returns : The Space Traveler’s Guide To SFI RecordingsEver since I was little cleaning has been a form of meditation for me. Organizing, putting away, alphabetizing, sweeping, dusting, rearranging, etc…I find the act of cleaning to be relaxing, weirdly enough. As a kid it was my bedroom. I didn’t have a very big room, but I made the most of what I had. […]
Read More Cleaning Is MeditationJustin Sweatt has covered a lot of musical ground over the last decade plus. Hazy Komische to sweaty dance floor bangers to cosmic synth drifts to pastoral ambient trips, Sweatt approaches them all like a composer telling a story through sound. And for a large swath of that time he worked under the moniker Xander […]
Read More Justin Sweatt : Permian Tapes Vol. 2Slowdive are one of the premier OG shoegaze bands of the early 90s. Releasing their debut album Just For A Day in 1991, then following it up with Souvlaki in 1993. Their sophomore release got mixed reviews when it came out, but like most great things in hindsight was re-evaluated as a masterpiece. Slowdive released […]
Read More Slowdive : Everything Is AliveBeen off work since last Wednesday. Decided I needed an extended Labor Day weekend so I took off work from last Wednesday thru today. Almost seven whole days away from the place I like to call “Fresh Hell”. The plan was simple, really. My wife was taking Thursday and Friday off as well, so on […]
Read More Labor PainsAdam Michael Kozak occupies a very specific space in the world of electronic music. As Burial Grid, Adam has put out a series of buzzing, ethereal, and at times claustrophobic electronic albums that were windows into his own psyche. Dealing with tragedy, fear, his own personal and emotional struggles, as well as looking the decline […]
Read More Burial Grid Readies New Album ‘Waves of Quietus’, Out 10/31; Watch New Video “A Derangement of the Senses”Osees, the ever-evolving, name-changing(see Thee Oh Sees, Oh Sees, The Osees, etc…) project of multi-instrumentalist and garage rock Grandmaster John Dwyer has been a staple in psych/garage/punk/noise rock community for two decades. Starting the project in 1997 as a freak folk band, Dwyer’s band morphed and evolved until 2007s The Master’s Bedroom Is Worth Spending […]
Read More Osees : Intercepted MessageFeatured Photo by Chris Schanz There’s been an electronic music renaissance in the last few years, and SFI Recording has been the epicenter of that. The circuital pulse emanating from the Pacific Northwest home base of Andrew Crawshaw’s record label can be felt in a visceral way from coast to coast. It’s building into something […]
Read More “Solidifying Our Sound” : A Conversation With Delta IV’s Michael Schorr And Jared PaceDo you remember the early 2000s indie music explosion? New York had become the epicenter of a music movement once again, this time with indifferent, arty kids revamping everything from Joy Division to Television to The Cars. The Strokes, Jonathan Fire Eater, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Juan McClean, LCD Soundsystem, and Interpol were at that […]
Read More The Hives : The Death Of Randy FitzsimmonsThe year of our Lord 2023 started out with me feeling like I’d run the course in regards to vinyl buying. I don’t know if I was burnt out, going through a rough record patch, or maybe it was just the idea that prices were going to just keep going up and up. Regardless, I […]
Read More 99 Problems But Vinyl Ain’t One