SOPHIE | Oil of Every Pearls Un-Insides | Future Classic / MSMSMSM Release date: 15 June 2018 Written by Jenna Dreisenstock Drenched syrup-swirl; a hallucinatory richness screams The Birth of Venus, the reveal and a shimmering pearl curling in picturesque shine in a nude pop-layered, mermaid-sweetened melody. A dreamlike playfulness in dance
album review / Avant-Pop / Dance / Electronic / experimental / Future Classic / glitch / IDM / Industrial / Los Angeles / MSMSMSM / Pop / SOPHIE / USA
Melody’s Echo Chamber | Bon Voyage | Domino Recording Co / Fat Possum Release date: June 15th 2018 Review by Jenna Dreisenstock Healing within the clutches of the heart, the flourish of reflection and wilt of each nestled thorn; to drink in desperation the clarity of sparkling water – a
Johnny Jewel | Themes for Television | Italians Do It Better Release date: 21 May 2018 Review by Jenna Dreisenstock “The project began as a sonic exploration of the sounds I was hearing in my nightmares. I wanted to find my way out of the maze by focusing on beauty over fear —
album review / ambient / Composer / David Lynch / Electronic / Italians Do It Better / Johnny Jewel / Mark Frost / Oregon / Portland / Twin Peaks
oOoOO & Islamiq Grrrls | Faminine Mystique | Nihjgt Feelings Release date: May 18th 2018 Review by Jenna Dreisenstock A bleeding glimmer in each finger. The shining of the cut-throat glass shards as hands press for a breakthrough; the chamber of a mime. Defined in black and white, painted onto the artistic body in mute
Beach House | 7 | Bella Union / Sub Pop Release date: May 11th 2018 Review by Jenna Dreisenstock A golden lyrical weave; sunlight winding, grasping like vines, a stunning bloom of melancholia sewing flowers in // out and around each rib, growing and wilting with the heaving of saltwater
album review / Baltimore / Beach House / Bella Union / Dream-Pop / experimental / Maryland / Pop / Psychedelic / Shoegaze
Black Moth Super Rainbow | Panic Blooms | Rad Cult Release date: May 4th 2018 Review by Jenna Dreisenstock A honeyed simmer in the deathly wilt; bubble-pop electronic pollen, stunning on sticky fingertips and cry of razor blades in a caramel apple. A lush, flow of saccharine blood in the
Midas Fall | Evaporate | Monotreme Records Release date: April 27th 2018 Review by Jenna Dreisenstock Hands clasped in royal blue; the kindness of unseeing mist, sleeping in palms. Of caverns within and the cold grey, phantasm bodies as stalagmites. Reverberation in effect-soaked bloom, emerald green pines in the howling
album review / Classical / Electronic / experimental / IDM / Midas Fall / Monotreme Records / Post-Rock / Shoegaze
Nils Frahm | All Melody | Erased Tapes Release date: January 26th 2018 Review by Jenna Dreisenstock Vast open spaces within a constraint. Worlds within a wooden bowl; a four walled reverberation of sound; bouncing, rolling, caressing each object as it produces its unique timbre. Layered sounds presented back to
album review / All Melody / Classical / Electronic / Erased Tapes / experimental / Germany / Hamburg / Nils Frahm
Högni | Two Trains | Erased Tapes Records Release date: 20 October 2017 Review by Jenna Dreisenstock You are but a shadow locomotive of yourself; the crisp burn of cold has numbed your feet, your legs. Wheels that have been frozen solid, and left you stranded as the cargo you’ve
By Mo Hafeez Portico Quartet, even for those with their ears to the ground of the jazz scene, will not be a familiar household name to most – this is despite them holding a Mercury Prize nomination for their debut effort Knee-Deep in the North Sea. Jazz, electronica and ambient
