CD Feature/ Portishead: "Third"
They're still there and they still matter: The triumph of a band who have never sounded this human before.
CD Feature/ Poolplayers: "Way Below the Surface"
Players aligned like metallic dust along the poles of a magnet: Very very silent music, played carefully and in the ...
CD Feature/ Dan Fröberg: "15 Songs (Down at Jinxey´s)"
New folk music: We are still listening to physical objects – but no longer to a physical reality.
Random Stabbings 34
May's interesting records subjectively compiled by Eric Saeger.
CD Feature/ Liar's Rosebush: "Circle the Squares"
Mindbogglingly complex: The comforting rattle of a thousand different hihats.
CD Feature/ The Duke Spirit: "Neptune"
Genuinely edgy alt-rock: A breath of fresh Turkish-cigarette-scented air.
CD Feature/ Jerome Froese: "Shiver me Timbers"
A carefully considered shift: Zippo-sounds for your mind's stadium.
CD Feature/ Pridon: "Apnea Eina"
Defies the laws of dance music: Texture and timbre instead of drums and linear development.
CD Feature/ OrchestraMaxfieldParrish: "The Silent Breath of Emptiness"
Heartbreaking charme: Interrelated tones conglomerating into thick tonal tufts.
The Breeders: "Mountain Battles"
A devilish coolness: Yoko Ono meets Nancy Sinatra.
The Herbaliser: Same as it Never Was heralds happy, dancy return
Funksoul HipHop band The Herbaliser are about to return to the scene with their first album in three years. Promos ...
Withered: "Folie Circulaire" continues the onslaught
Atlanta-based Extreme Metal outfit Withered are about to publish the follow-up to their widely respected debut “Memento Mori”. "Folie Circulaire" ...
Steppas Delight
History being made: A compilation by Souljazz Records cuts through the hype surrounding Dubstep.
Vital Weekly 628
Frans de Waard presents the experimental releases of the week.
15 Questions to Autistici
The release of "Volume Objects" on 12K set the record straight on two things: That Autistici was a netlabel artist, ...