Reflex Condition : Unknown Restraints

Once in a while you’re surprised by an album. You’re not looking for it, but out of the blue an album drops from the ether and into your lap and sort of blows your mind. The band Reflex Condition just dropped their album Unknown Restraints last Friday and by now I’ve listened to it four […]

Daniel Davies : Signals

For his first solo album with Sacred Bones Records, Daniel Davies was inspired by the mixed media artist Jesse Draxler. Davies creates music that feels visual and expansive, much like taking inspiration from film to create movie scores. His album Events Score from 2018 did feel very cinematic, but more compact and personal. With Draxler’s […]

Phantoms vs Fire : Modern Monsters I & II

There are very few artists working today quite like Thiago Desant, aka Phantoms vs Fire. His music is informed just as much by his visual aesthetic as his musical aesthetic. When you start out your creative ventures as a graphic designer I feel it allows your musical creativity to bloom in a completely different and […]

Andy Fosberry : 13

UK electronic label Soundtracking The Void is back again with a new release for 2020. This time its from UK media composer Andy Fosberry. Fosberry runs Fully Composed Studio, a studio where Fosberry creates music for film, TV, commercials, and pretty much anything that sight and sound come together in an organic, natural way. Soundtracking […]

Urgula : Frequency Wars

Techno music has a certain freedom to it that allows the music to zone out, expand, and elaborate on a single rhythm for as long as it needs. It works some kind of sonic voodoo on the listener, putting us in a state of suspended animation. I’ve grown to appreciate the genre over the years, […]

Fragile X : Late 03 : Hylozoic

The Glasgow electronic wizard J Gorecki, musically known as Fragile X, is all about moving us. Taking us on a journey thru his music. Many of us walk the path of mundanity in our daily lives; clocking in and clocking out, paying bills, cleaning up, and even talking about the same things and never deviating […]

Field Lines Cartographer : The Ferric Landscape

Mark Burford’s work as Field Lines Cartographer feels more like digging for fossils or mapping out new galaxies than just sitting and listening to an album. He creates a vast and strange musical landscape that is somewhere between meditative bliss and a frightening science fiction discovery. Songs slowly spread over time frames that cover from […]

Subtle But Disturbing : Dreams, Nightmares, and the Sonic World of Rory Mohon

Rory Mohon may not be an artist you’re familiar with, but just one listen to his 2018 album Darkly Dreaming and you’ll know why he should be. Mohon writes dark electro music that feels cinematic. It sounds ready for the big screen, but I’ll stop short of saying “imagined soundtrack”. Yes, his songs are cinematic […]

Jonas Munk’s “Sabi”, “Resonance”

There are few artists that can handle themselves as effortlessly in front of and behind the board as Jonas Munk. Over twenty years of writing and recording, first in the electronic project Manual in the late 90s/early 2000s, then as guitarist for Causa Sui, and beyond that a collaborator with a who’s who list of […]

Outpost 31 Studios Releases “Inverted Dreamer” By Treebones; ‘Midnight Radio’ Coming Soon

Treebones makes electronic music that isn’t fussy, but easy to get lost in. The North Carolina-based artist works in simple melodies and addictive beats, and carries them out like otherworldly incantations. He stands by the adage of “less is more”, and in doing so gives us skeletal songs with beating hearts you can see pumping […]