Pye Corner Audio : Lake Deep Memory

The musical world of Martin Jenkins’ Pye Corner Audio is a vast and mysterious one. The music is low key, sparse, and filled with shadowy twists and turns. Dark ambient hung on skeletal beats like flesh to bone, as if building a creature from things unknown and thoughts unspoken. Eerie, melancholy, and oddly groovy; a […]

Complex Distractions Presents : Favorite Albums Of 2024(5-1)

Hello. We’re a mere two days away from 2025; new year, new me, new you, and all that jazz. I’m hoping for a year a little less rough and tumble myself. Maybe a quieter -dare I say- more boring year. Going into it knowing my job is protected now for at least a few more […]

Whoa, We’re Halfway There : Favorite Albums Of The Year, Mid-Year Edition

Can you believe we’re into July already? Feels like it was just yesterday we were all huddled in the living room during that January Polar Vortex and wondering when the temps would make to at least single digits once again. Now? Well we just had 110 degrees with the heat index two weeks ago. Time […]

Pye Corner Audio : The Endless Echo

Pye Corner Audio opened a whole new world of electronic music for me. It’s one I’ve tried putting a label on ever since I first heard The Black Mills Tapes; then Sleep Games, Stasis, Hollow Earth, and Entangled Routes. It’s the label I’m still attempting to come up with right now listening to Martin Jenkins, […]

Pye Corner Audio Returns With ‘The Endless Echo’, Out 4/5; Listen To “Decision Point”

Martin Jenkins, aka Pye Corner Audio, has been making haunted techno and eerie ambient music for well over a decade now. Releasing the cassette series The Black Mills Tapes in the early 2010s, then putting out a run of LPs that have proven influential and inspiring in the hauntology/library music genres. Pye Corner Audio is […]

‘Summerteeth’ Turns 25, Pye Corner Audio Worship, And Faex Optim Filling A BOC-Size Hole

25 years ago this past Saturday I was sitting in a mildly dumpy hotel room in Fresno, California wondering what the hell I was going to do with myself. I’d flown into town for work. I was Distributor Inventory Auditor for a Midwestern orthopedic company in the late 90s. In simple terms, I traveled to […]

“She Hunts At Night” : Digging Into Pye Corner Audio’s ‘Prowler’

I didn’t discover Pye Corner Audio until 2016. I was in the midst of healing from back surgery(herniated disc) and I was obsessively searching the Mondo/Death Waltz Recording Company’s website to see if I could snag any soundtracks(for therapeutic purposes, of course.) During that time I’d found the amazing Pentagram Home Video’s Who’s Out There?, […]

Pye Corner Audio : Entangled Routes

I’m of the opinion that whenever a new Pye Corner Audio album comes out it’s the best one yet from Martin Jenkins’ long-running electronic project. His haunted downtempo electro sound feels right at home in some dystopian future. Under-the-radar-techno mixed with sci-fi soundscapes and touches of horror, the occult, and VHS dreams emanate from Jenkins’ […]

“Through The King’s Wood” : Getting Lost in Pye Corner Audio’s Black Mill Tapes

I’ve been completely and utterly enchanted by Pye Corner Audio as of late. Admittedly I’m a late arrival to the haunted sound world of Martin Jenkins, but man I’m so glad I finally arrived. It’s a subtle music, that of PCA, but once you unlock the dark, melancholy magic that hides in the downtempo beats […]

Quarantine Uploads : Pye Corner Audio

Waiting around at home with your family or over caffeinated dog till this all blows over can be an arduous process. This is more than just a cold spell, or taking an alternate route to work because a bridge is out. This isolation thing is becoming the new norm, and it may continue to be […]