Calgary native Craig Storm founded the Monroeville Music Center ostensibly prior to the Center’s first blog post (which dropped in 2010), but no documentation can be found to prove this. A technology-based narrative was adopted by Storm, describing the various goings on at the Center, including…
There are few tracks that so perfectly summarize an album as “Nature” foreshadows and outlines Valet’s forthcoming LP from Kranky. The title cut from Honey Owens’s third Kranky effort, “Nature” turns her layered pop sounds outward, resulting in a bright, ethereal…
Having released an immense body of work covering nu-kraut synthesizer music (Snowbride, with Rachel McIntosh), funky cold wave (Roman Photos (RIP)), sublime no wave (Suitcases) and dark, doomy drone (loosely/somehow with Outer Gods), the Drew Haddon doesn’t seem to be limited by any factors. The Atlanta-based…
Please say hello to the first installment of Decoder’s new in-house podcast, an audio companion to the website scheduled to appear every other month (courtesy of our producer David Perron from the FFFoxy Podcast. For our first episode, the site editors introduce themselves while contending with…
When he’s not producing a refined racket with Mansion or creating numbed, spastic rhythms with Body Glove, Adam Keith records isolating but exploratory bouts of warm, mechanical nihilism as Cube. Having issued several cassettes as Cube (and its variant Cubicle), including the mesmerizing and…
Though the official announcement is now nearly a week out of date, I can’t help but direct attention to Baro Records’ wonderful cassette reissue of Julian Lynch’s 2009 Orange You Glad LP for Olde English Spelling Bee. When I bought that record, shortly before escaping my fiendish…
Ohio’s Cabin Floor Esoterica is on a path to becoming one of my favorite labels. Every cassette arrives hand packaged in a thick card box with a pasted on label and the artist’s name stamped on the lid. Each copy is accompanied by a trinket that plays off of the theme of the release. These…
Keshco is an international and more than a decade-old ensemble that makes psychedelic “jingles,” low-key library music essentially, and though their latest is characteristically minimal, the name Unaccentuated seems almost absurd appended to what some might even call particularly sensuous…
While there’s no shortage of noisy techno projects, the field still remains stocked with a precious few worth plowing for. Take Corey Hucks, for example. Having been involved with a number of austerely rhythmic, dissonant projects, including Body Glove, Ex-Pets, Gaze, and Puke Attack, Hucks reserves…
Although largely associated with Implodes, the Chicago psych outfit that errs on the side of hazy, exploratory post-rock, guitarist Ken Camden has no problem venturing into aural depths solo. You could almost argue that he prefers it, retreating into complete and utter isolation with only his guitar…
“For this episode of the podcast, it was a real pleasure to have Matthew De Gennaro join us at KMSU studios to perform a live set, to chat a bit about his music, and to spin a few rarities, including some assorted 78′s (a FFF first!) from his personal collection. We caught on to Matthew’s…
Derek Rogers has only been picking up steam these past few years, popping up on various labels of equally fascinating labels (Bridgetown, Patient Sounds, J&C Tapes, Umor Rex, et al.) with a bold sprawl of glitching, beatific ambient music. The latest chapter in the Dallas resident’s forray…
I’ve been on tenterhooks awaiting Fleece’s new EP since hearing their track “Sweat” on Death Records’ compilation, and holy shit, did they deliver — Eulogy is a speedy trip through six tracks of glorious San Fran punk that clocks in and out (and then flips you the…
“Since 2008 the core trio that make up Woven Skull have been gathering together in the Northwest of Ireland in a place called Leitrim which is known for its tales of ghosts, ‘tree folk,’ underwater creatures and the constant battle calls of the ancient Tuatha De Danann that can be heard on…
I have often proselytized to fellow listeners on the need to experience Chester Hawkins in a live setting to understand his electro-kosmiche, audio-spiritual underpinnings. A recent digital release Murmurations is proof enough that Hawkins may be at his best when he has a flesh-and-blood audience with…
Noisey experimental composer Eisenhower’s debut Rough Drafts of a Think Piece cassette immediately involves the listener in the mid-century milieu of the project’s namesake, opened by an echoing, warped passage of sampled light brass music that floats under a drawling singer whose had…
The new spring batch from Bridgetown has a pronounced vein of 2010 nostalgia: Weed Diamond and Media Jeweler guitarist JT Schweitzer has turned tone-wrangler as EH46 for a magnificent new ambient outing, A God With Horns, while Ancient Crux, aka Travis Von Sydow, returns to performance and music…
Though we just missed including it in last week’s review by a few hours, I thought we could start this installment by pointing out that Adam Harper recently turned his pen toward East Asian influenced music in his latest column for the FADER; “soothing sounds to save even internet-accelerated…
Bob Bucko, Jr., is a prolific experimental artist, guitarist, and label curator, but his most recent Captcha Records effort, I Did What I Could With What I Had, finds him in the midst of the studio. BBJR amplifies his experimental buzz and sharpens his blues acumen on I Did What I Could…The first…
