“Electronic” Reviews

A chilled, challenging psychedelic album that will reward the patient listener.

For all of its artificiality, there’s very little that’s cold, clinical, or merely “academic” about Platform.

The sort of downtempo music that’s best listened to when you’re too tired to stay awake but not tired enough to go to bed yet.

For all of their engineering, programming, and whatnot, it’s to Silver’s credit that these songs never seem sterile or artificial.

Imagine a sci-fi/fantasy amalgam featuring feather-haired space knights soaring through the cosmos on metallic steeds, wielding blades of cyber-mithril and saving maidens from evil nebula dragons.

If you’re expecting subtlety and restraint from a band calling themselves Infinity Shred, then you’ve got another thing coming.

An impressive and haunting debut thanks to its remarkably mature degree of restraint and control.

Easily become much greater than the sum of its parts.

Dreamy, washed out bliss-pop full of swirling, sighing vocals and ambient guitar textures.

Contains some of the most retro and forward-thinking music that Jonas Munk has done in a long time, maybe ever.

Talik creates a warm, relaxing ambient/electronica sound that works quite nicely for late night listening sessions.

The Swedish duo have created what could very well be the ambient/dream-pop album of 2009.

The shortness of these pieces only enhances the beauty contained therein.

The cover art promises more than the music, as good as it may get at times, can ultimately deliver.

Perfect soundtrack material for late night excursions.

The perfect soundtrack for a nice cup of tea and your favorite Murakami novel.

You can listen to these songs twenty times and still not hear all of the sonic details contained therein.

This otherwise light and fluffy music contains a surprisingly engaging amount of emotional heft.

Weigl and Hoffman combine orchestral sounds, sparse piano lines, Spanish guitar, and skittering, echoey beats.

Hopefully, this collection of odds and sods from Manual’s archives presages a sea change in Jonas Munk’s career.