Archive for September, 2011
Hexed by Telecult Powers
Few bands have left a bigger crater in their wake in 2011 than the duo of Telecult Powers. Witchbeam and Mister Mathews have been brewing up some of the best electronic stew for a while now but never has it been more condensed and ready to bathe in than on their first vinyl sacrifice,...
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Xeno & Oaklander, “Sets & Lights”
Wierd Records is fast becoming a notable home for the synth underground.
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Lost Boy ? / Slothbear, split 7″
This record is a great thing for Long Island.
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Arborea, “Red Planet”
On this, Arborea’s third release, husband and wife duo of Shanti and Buck Curran continue their labor of love, once more constructing haunting, folk-based tunes that evoke seasons and untamed spaces, timeless melodic short stories about a mythical past that might in the heart be closer to reality than what you are staring at...
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Hunted Creatures, s/t tape
This tape sounds like channel-surfing late-night television on acid in a haunted house, which I suppose is a pretty awesome niche to occupy.
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C.J. Chenier, “Can’t Sit Down”
Zydeco is the ultimate rural house party music, with a goodtime vibe and a syncopated shuffle beat that is impossible to resist.
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Primitive Motion, “By Arc or Chord” tape
On Primitive Motion’s Certain Materials EP that came out earlier this year on Soft Abuse, we heard the Australian duo of Leighton Craig and Sandra Selig knocking out a brand of minimal, reverbed-laced casio pop, with some occasional live drumming
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Sigbjorn Apeland, “Glossolalia”
With digital sampling technology capable of reproducing virtually any musical sound source, a rear-guard action is being fought by some musicians who deliberately embrace older, somewhat primitive instruments
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