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REVIEW: Thriftwicker Audio Society – VOLUME IV – HOW TO LIVE A ZESTY LIFE (2021)
Like Kraftwerk at a lower bit-rate, this crunchy lil’ synth piece was self-released by Thriftwicker Audio Society in 2021. How To Live A Zesty Life (like a lot of art-brutish music) doesn’t attract the listener with any particular song as well as it functions as a background mood piece to play [insert activity] to. For…
REVIEW: Client_03 – Ur_Luv / Interpersonal Relationship Assessment (2021)
“It sounds a lot like you’re the one assessing us”, the ‘interviewer’ says. So what does that make this? B-side track Interpersonal Relationship Assessment is a 12 minute sound play of the character that is Client_03 being ‘assessed’; a therapy-like interplay in which a feminine robotic voice answers a down pitched interviewer’s questions. All and…
REVIEW: Slow Blink – Time Constant (2022)
In a buzzy glow of lo-fi warmth comes Slow Blink’s Time Constant. Released last week on April 1st, 2022, Time Constant is the 4th full-length album by Chattanooga, TN’s Amanda Haswell through their Ambient project Slow Blink. Performed live at Stove Works in Chattanooga on March 18th, and while less doom-laden than their former live…
REVIEW: Tokyo Wanderer – Incubus (2019)
Tokyo Wanderer crosses the connections between all the ‘wave’-genres of the late naughts and teens; Synthwave, Outrun, Chillwave and Future Funk blend in and out across the album. Only Vaporwave fails to make an overt appearance. Incubus is clinically cold. Synth lines and ‘glitched’ out chops are warped through phasers, both standing as foundational sonic…
REVIEW: Sierra Ferrell – Long Time Coming (2021)
Released on Rounder Records in 2021, Long Time Coming is the third full-length album by Nasheville, Tennessee-based Sierra Ferrell. The musicianship is impressive, but can’t get me far enough away from this nagging lack of interest. The songs, their compositions and performances are very pretty, but lack conviction or something to really grab hold of.…
REVIEW: Christian Mistress – To Your Death (2015)
One thing that contemporary Rock never shed from its predecessors was overt-cheesiness. So a Hard Rock / Heavy Metal retro act coming out of Olympia,…
REVIEW: Primeval Well – Talkin’ in Tongues with Mountain Spirits (2021)
Metal is one of those precious genres that can be dropped into any culture across the world and it will just work. Egyptian Black Metal?…
REVIEW: Lower Level Bureau – Innerworld (2015)
Released on the Italian label Vollmer Industries in 2015, Innerworld is the 2015 debut album by the Eunice, Louisiana-based recording project Lower Level Bureau. Recorded…
REVIEW: Montel Palmer – Catastropheland (2022)
Catastropheland, despite what its name suggests, instigates a state of dubbed out bliss. From the Cologne, Germany based trio Montel Palmer, Catastropheland is a lo-fi…
REVIEW: Fonta Flora – Farmer’s Wake (2020)
Farmer’s Wake is the debut full-length album by South Carolina-based and Southern Gothic themed Alt-Country band Fonta Flora. The duo consists of lead singer and…
REVIEW: Malakas – Flamme Flottante (2018)
Flame Flottante is the 2018 EP release by French instrumental duo Malakas. Based in Coulommiers, France, band members K.Yordanoff and M.Le Saux have created a…
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