THE INTEREST GROUP – EP 1
The Interest Group have created a sugary ice-pop of capital-p Paisley Psych on their first self-titled, self-released EP. The Philadelphia group wrangles…
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SXSW HOUSE SHOW PHOTOS FEATURING GRASS IS GREEN, BAD HISTORY MONTH, EACH OTHER, ETC.
I live in Austin, where house shows are rare. Basements are nearly non-existent due to the limestone bedrock that extends below central…
HOBO CUBES – APEX IDEALS
On Apex Ideals, Montreal-based Francesco De Gallo creates a very pristine form of ambient sculpture from shards of contorted digital audio hosed…
MAGIC EYE – BABYLON
Not Not Fun’s recent tape release from Edinburgh’s Magic Eye sets a raw analog recording palette against a batch of “aquarium” pop…
RYAN EMMETT – PORTRAIT OF A DOG
Pittsburg-based aural-atmospherist Ryan Emmett recently released a tape of his work out on Orange Milk Records. The tape entitled Portrait of a…
JERRY PAPER – FEELS EMOTIONS
Jerry Paper is a complicated laundry list of things: an incarnate spirit, a myth, a blurred line between artist and creation, an…
LOW PRAISES – MYSTERY LANTERNS
Last week Low Praises released another tome in their long-distance bedroom collaboration. The project is comprised of two sonic night-miners, Neil Lord…
BLANK REALM – GRASSED INN
On their latest LP Grassed Inn, Brisbane janglers Blank Realm, mine a more precise pop sensibility from their familiar homespun chemistry. Building…
SECRET BOYFRIEND – THIS IS ALWAYS WHERE YOU’VE LIVED
Fresh out of North Carolina’s harsh noise scene blooms Secret Boyfriend with his first full LP out on Blackest Ever Black Records….
WIZARD OF – FACE/SKELETON
Toronto’s Bob McCully, the man behind the experimental “fucked up synth” and bass project WIZARD OF, released his LP Face/Skeleton on Digitalis…
HUERCO S. – COLONIAL PATTERS
A lot has been said about Huerco S.’s strain of syrupy, ambient techno, much of it in the form of a conceptual…
SSLEEPERHOLD – ‘Ruleth’
SSLEEPERHOLD continues Holodeck Records’ exploration of minimal, man-merges-with-machine, analog synth composition. José Cota, man behind the hardware, relocated to Austin from Los…
