B/B/S/ – Palace
Palace B/B/S/ is certainly topping my Most Non-creative Band Names Ever list, but keeping in mind the number of projects its members Aidan Baker (Nadja), Erik Skodvin (Svarte Greiner, Deaf Center), and...
View ArticleFovea Hex – The Salt Garden I
The Salt Garden I The fears of childhood have a unique staying power. A brief moment of news footage, the roar of a motorcycle, strangers at the door; anything slightly out of the ordinary has the...
View ArticleBlackwood's "As the World Rots Away" Is a Vicious Tribute to the Power of...
As the World Rots Away Since primordial times, forests have been fascinating our minds with their limitless duality. They are a place of refuge (both literally and metaphorically, as Ernst Jünger has...
View ArticleFreeform Delirium Via Obscure Drone: John Haughm's "+37.717364 //...
The Last Place I Remember “….in steadfast spirit of the years 1865-1895” So proclaims the liner notes of +37.717364 // -117.247955: The Last Place I Remember, the bizarrely titled solo album from...
View Article'Ultrasonic Bathing Apparatus' Shows Simon Balestrazzi's Most Experimental Guise
Ultrasonic Bathing Apparatus I suspect this album might be a bit confusing for those who have just a little familiarity with the career of Simon Balestrazzi. I say that because this is about as far as...
View ArticleSwans – The Glowing Man
The Glowing Man I’m not completely sure why I prefer The Glowing Man over To Be Kind, to be honest. Comparisons between the two are practically inevitable; Swans have created an experience closely...
View ArticleJarl Turns His Attention Deep Inside the Mind with 'Amygdala Colours-...
Artwork by Karolina Urbaniak Jarl’s Case 1959: Dyatlov was quite possibly my favourite release of 2015. It’s frightening and unsettling without being obvious (which is never scary), a sonic bay with a...
View ArticleThisquietarmy Goes the Way of the Synth on “Democracy of Dust”
by Angel S. I’ve been hoping that, one day, Eric Quach—the sole mind behind thisquietarmy—would release a synthesizer-based album. To be honest, I was hoping that synths would be his one and only sound...
View ArticleSarah Lipstate Takes Guitar Drone Towards a Pop Aesthetic on Noveller’s “A...
by Zachary Corsa Zach records as Nonconnah creating a unique “southern” style of shoegaze. Check out his music here! Sarah Lipstate’s guitar has been wielded like a ceremonial axe through nearly a...
View ArticleFairytales by Gamardah Fungus Follows the Spirits of Ukrainian Forests
by Angel S. I try to stay as much up to date as possible with the Flaming Pines catalog because field recordist and sound artist Kate Carr has managed to turn her imprint into one of the most personal...
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