If you are looking for a nu age, synth guided journey you can do a lot worse than Brooklyn’s AFTERLIFE and their latest HOOKER VISION release CELESTIAL HABITAT. There’s something going on here with this one, it actually feels like an album, a distance traveled from song one through song nine. And it is the feeling of an album length statement that takes these bubbling arpeggios and the recurring head in the clouds synth fog up a notch. I can almost see the sci-fi plot spilling out of these sounds. Good with with some medical marijuana and turkey leftovers.
“DSM” showcases the many individual styles of Brockton’s Van Buren Records
It has been a fruitful 18 months for the Brockton super-collective Van Buren Records. Their two 2021 records, Bad For Press and Black Wall…