At the moment I’m heavily preoccupied with reading David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, so in homage I’ll write only one sentence in each category, and squeeze whatever I need to say into it. Onward to changes in 2013, I say! Best Album Zelienople, The World Is A House On Fire (Type) Rounding out another...
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Marc Riordan has established himself in my mind as one of the more intriguing musicians in Chicago: thoughtful, soulful, and creative, with an unmistakably solid feel.
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In abstract sound exploration, there’s some kind of instinct that guides certain folks, who seem to simply feel things on an uncommon level.
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Ancestral Diet – the duo of Caethua and Andy Neubauer – drops this grimy LP from Caethua’s own label.
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This collaboration between High Wolf and Neil Campbell of Astral Social Club plays to the strengths of both artists, with the result sounding quite cozy indeed.
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This 7-inch piggybacked on the release of punk troubadour King Dude’s latest full-length, “Burning Daylight.”
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You don’t have to know of the work of Norwegian sound artist Tor Lundvall to hear immediately that it’s occupying a different space than most ambient/field recording artists out there.
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Invisible Sports is the solo project of Aaron Moore, British expat and co-founder of Volcano The Bear, participant in a whole heap of significant fringe-rock projects.
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Flat Can Co is a rather clean-sounding scuzzy rock quartet from Cleveland, supposedly dropping their final album on Remember When.
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Onewayness is the synth-drone guise of Erie, PA’s Adam Holquist, whose output has been steady growing via radioplay and mostly self-released work.
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Controlled Burn is another recent release from Chicago’s austere Peira label, whom I profiled a couple months back for Foxy D. and who happily was named this year’s “best experimental label” by readers of the alt-weekly Chicago Reader (as there are an awful lot of other incredible labels in the city at the moment,...
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Joe Colley is an experimentalist and installation sound artist among other things, working in disparate spaces, exploring sound phenomena relating to altered or skewed perceptions.
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As Loopool, L.A.’s Jean-Paul Garnier has released a bevy of albums since the late 1990s on labels including but not limited to Not Not Fun, Hipster Death, and Ilse.
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