AE Paterra : VCO 025 :: Alone In Your Dark

AE Paterra is the drummer extraordinaire of the electro synth prog duo Zombi, along with Steve Moore on bass and synths. They’ve carved a niche for themselves over the last 20+ years(debuting in 2004 with Cosmos). The band tows the line between prog rockers and classic 70s/80s horror film scores, somehow bringing the worlds of […]

Boards Of Canada Return And Now I Feel Complete

13 years. It has been a whopping 13 years since the great Scottish electronic brother duo Boards of Canada have released a new album. Tomorrow’s Harvest arrived in June of 2013 after another long turn between albums with their last album The Campfire Headphase coming out in 2005. I get it. Their records are worlds […]

Manual : True Bypass

Musician and producer Jonas Munk has remained pretty busy these last few years. Between releasing music with Causa Sui, ambient solo works, and putting out records with Auburn Lull’s Jason Kolb as Billow Observatory, he’s leaving a wide swath of sonic endeavors for us to get lost in. And let’s not forget running record label […]

Fight Night : Mr Eff Returns With Meditation For Violence

I still remember the palpable excitement when Mondocon 2019 arrived and everyone was talking about someone named Mr Eff and his album Eyes Down. I wasn’t there, so I figured I’d never get a chance to hear it. Well, that’s just the naive music-obsessive in me. Of course I was able to get a copy(just […]

Complex Distractions Presents Favorite Albums of 2025 : Electronic Edition

We’re back. This time I’m talking all my favorite electronic albums of 2025. There were some amazing electronic records released this year…some you’ve heard, and probably some that will be new to your ears. So scroll on down and see what we’ve got. 10. Camp of Wolves : Bear Creek I’ve been a fan of […]

Filippo Diana : The Haunted Palace

Italian musician and composer Filippo Diana works in the dark corners. His music feels pulled from some Gothic nightmare; dark corners, monolith castles hid in ancient forests, and existential dread just under the surface all built from ambient textures, propulsive synthesizers, and the drive to take the listener on a journey. For most of the […]

Oneohtrix Point Never : Tranquilizer

Discovering the musical world of Daniel Lopatin known as Oneohtrix Point Never was a revelation. Much like stumbling across Boards of Canada, you feel like you’re coming across something completely singular and unique. There was nothing quite like that music before it. There were bits and pieces of 80s new age and drone music -as […]

Metavari : House Tetra Sessions, Vol. 1

Nate Utesch has always been about the evolution of sound and art when it comes to his long-running musical project Metavari. From the early days as a Midwestern post-rock outfit(Be One Of Us And Here No Noise) to moving into more synth-based electro pop(Moonless), to creating more ethereal/new age soundscapes(Metropolis, Absurda, Soft Continuum), Utesch is […]

Burial Grid : NORD Compendium

Adam Michael Kozak, aka Burial Grid, has always had a fascination with the dark corners of life. His modular/analog electronic music has always been more of the glitchy and nervous variety, as if manifesting darkness, anxiety, and fear through square waves and circuital curiosity. And while a lot of artists make dark and foreboding electronic […]

Dressel Amorosi : House of Dolls

The musical world of Dressel Amorosi is a splendid, sinister thing. The band consists of Heinrich Dressel(Valerio Lombardozzi) and Federico Amorosi, a duo locked heavily into the world of Giallo scores, Goblin jams, and prog rock tightness. All combined together gives us a musical world of 70s Italian horror with plenty of meat on the […]