“Music” Archives

Snow Leopard Messiah reveals that Cashmore’s greatest contribution to neofolk is how supremely listenable and pleasant he makes it.

If a song like this played on the radio today, it would result in outrage from multiple points on the cultural spectrum — though for different reasons.

The experience of listening to music is so much more than simply the music’s audio fidelity.

Lush’s catalog will be reissued prior to their first gig in two decades.

In addition to standard LP, CD, and digital editions, the album is also available in two very limited quantity “deluxe” editions.

It’s not often that an album comes from out of nowhere and immediately charms and enchants you. This is one of those albums.

Easily one of the best and most sublime releases I’ve ever heard from the Hearts of Space label.

Nearly beatless ambient dub that drift around the listener with nary any resistance.

These dozen songs possess an emotional heft that one doesn’t always associate with the synth-pop genre.

Haunting, dark, epic, and danceable. Recommended for fans of Makeup & Vanity Set and Daft Punk.

Cinematic electronic music, Quaker-influenced synthpop, spacious ambient dub, atmospheric chamber music, and exotic instrumentals.

My latest “Chrindie ‘95” piece looks back on Circle of Dust’s self-titled debut and its place in Christian industrial music’s history.

Without a doubt, the most ambitious mewithoutYou album to date, by any standard, but also the most troubling.

For those times when you just want to lose yourself in some sad, nostalgic, starry-eyed ambience for an hour or so.

Their lush, atmospheric music is still as evocative as ever, even in this short video preview of “Pray For Rain.”

It’s deeply enjoyable, and even a little moving for this fan, to see Slowdive vindicated after all these years.

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

This time: Atmospheric darkwave, eerie space rock, poetic post-hardcore, jangly pop, and soulful hip-hop.

In which I wax rhapsodic about the expansive, futuristic “ambient dub” of Paul Dickow.

Even without the inevitable nostalgia, ‘Show’ captures a brilliant performance by a band at their zenith.