Shanghai Restoration Project Offer Innovative Alternate Reality on ‘Brave New World Symphony’
Imagination has always been the Shanghai Restoration Project's beating heart, and it has perhaps never been more timely than on Brave New World Symphony.
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The 20 Best Electronic Albums of 2020
Electronic music is a huge tent with many diverse approaches, and it's more international than ever with producers around the globe pushing music forward. The year's best albums featured returns from established talents, as well as ground-breaking newcomers.
The 10 Best Ambient Albums of 2020
In a year that felt lonelier than ever, some expected ambient music to be a soothing balm. Yet ambient artists capture the sadness, the bliss, the hurt, and the healing of this wild year better than most.
The Avalanches Say ‘We Will Always Love You’
The Avalanches as a collaborative pop project isn't a bad look, but the guests here embarrass themselves in too many ways, mostly through vague polemics.
Jordan Reyes: From Industrial Noise to Ambient Americana
Restless musician, composer, and label owner Jordan Reyes has largely abandoned the modular synthesizers of his previous releases to create something organic and meditative. Reyes speaks about his new album and the wide range of music American Dreams continues to release.
NIHITI’s Dark Ambient Electronics Suit the Season on ‘A New Kind of Weather’
Even at only five tracks long, NIHITI's A New Kind of Weather never feels stunted. A single mood is sustained across the album, giving a sustained tension. There's not a song here that is not intricate and truly beautiful.
Actress Explores the Voice on ‘Karma & Desire’
Rather than continue to experiment with more bells and whistles, studio guru Actress has stepped back and experimented with the most elemental of all sounds: the voice.
Coil’s ‘Musick to Play in the Dark’ Gets a 20th Anniversary Re-Issue
This phase of Coil, explained by them as more "feminine", "lunar consciousness musick" in contrast to their previous "solar" phase, featured extensive use of organs, electric viola, and other synthesizers, a greater range of vocal experimentation.
Tristan Perich’s ‘Drift Multiply’ Charts a New Course for the Fusion of Composition and Electronics
Tristan Perich's Drift Multiply is essential listening regardless of your tastes, the combination of violins and one-bit processors has never sounded so graceful.
What Once Sounded Like the Future Still Sounds Fresh on Craig Taborn’s ‘Junk Magic’
Compass Confusion is the long-awaited sequel to Craig Taborn's groundbreaking 2004 recording that mixed jazz, electronica, and new music composition. What once sounded like the future still sounds fresh.
‘Live 80-81’ Is Testimony to How Hot This Heat Were on Stage
Released in 2006, this live LP documents This Heat as a formidable live rock presence.
This Heat’s ‘Made Available’ Is a Near Perfect BBC Sessions LP
Refusing to colour within the lines, This Heat presented new and radically revised work on this 1996 compilation.