Not to be consumed by those prone to anxiety, or afflicted with low levels of patience. The formation of such an album is a strange thing, completely new to me. This is a Latitudes release, an idea created by Southern Recording studio that has been going on for a number of years. From reading the […]

Hot on the heels of the haunted Sulphur Bloodlines 12” on Cold Spring Records comes the new Iron Fist of the Sun album, Who will Help me Wash my Right Hand. The working methods of Iron Fist… seemed to reformulate differently on Sulphur Bloodlines, with its extended notes, shifts of noise and synthesiser modulations. This […]

Electronic fluctuations, an asperous guitar and cheap Casio-tones create what might best be called outsider alien synthscapes. Well, that’s not the only thing these ten tracks could be called. One might want to tag this cassette as discount minimalism, or file it under one-man with a four-track drone. However, I keep returning to the term […]

The Spirit Dies is a solo act from Dublin, Ireland. Under the sole stewardship of a certain “Ninah”, The Spirit Dies operates as a drone / ambient / field recording project, with a main descriptor as “instrumental music for [horror] movies: I write ambient drones, haunting soundscapes, experimental textures.” (Facebook) I hate to say that […]

The most recent release from Hamilton, Ontario’s The Infant Cycle makes a strong argument for the position that not only can all sounds be made musical, they can be made musically beautiful. Now that each and every sound one encounters can be captured, shared, transformed, repurposed and decontextualized in an easy, portable and affordable manner, […]

One conspiracy theory I read on the explanation of chemtrails claimed that the US Air Force was setting these clouds up in our atmosphere in order to act as some kind of weapon. It had to do with the creation of clustered particle layers that could redirect the light and energy of the sun into […]

I have to admit that it’s been quite some time since I have stopped long enough to relax and give Aidan Baker a dedicated listen.  Like some other prolific favorites of mine, from Vinterriket to Mystified, I’ve found it difficult, if not frustrating, to attempt to keep up with his career and decidedly gave up […]

Behind the steps of death, past the prison of grief, many of us can have a clear vision of what or who has passed away from us. We can appreciate that the perversions of life no longer plague our loved ones, and the value of the best moments we’ve collected alongside the departed reaches as […]

An immense leap forward; this is what Fraktal is for the Romanian ambient trio Environments. After quite a silent and barely popularized debut album and its far more interesting and challenging follower (both out through the now defunct Asiluum Arts net label), Stefan Panea (composition), Para (drums) and Marius Costache (noise, engineering, visuals) are offering […]

Last week, I got into a few discussions about the point of releasing compilations, and as I’ve attempted to be or was involved in a lot of them in the past, I have to say it’s damn hard to make something really worthy and interesting. And this one is among the best examples of how […]