“Kranky” Archives

Some tracks may leave the new listener bewildered, but I challenge anyone to not find the beauty ultimately contained in these recordings.

I could only fully appreciate Submers’ nautical-themed soundscapes once I listened to them over headphones.

An album that reminds me of why I loved, and continue to love, their music so much.

Mark Nelson is determined to minimize his albums’ accessibility as deliberately as he minimizes his sound.

AMP has indeed changed their sound, and not managed to totally disappoint in doing it.

Haunting female-fronted atmospheric music in the vein of Flying Saucer Attack and Low.

Like so many things, brevity is the soul of this album. The amazing thing is just how vast that brevity sounds.

One wonders when Low will get trapped in their musical stylings.

Pure contemplative magic.

The whole disk is nice and airy, never a dissonant note for too long.

It is challenging, but digging underneath the surface could just reveal some interesting tidbits.

This an album that speaks of freedom, but also is brave enough to declare that one must venture through darkness and madness to achieve it.