“Music” Archives

The Ministry of Archers feels like a throwback to past Joy Electric efforts like We Are The Music Makers and Five Stars For Failures.

A gentle and thoughtfully ambient sound that always seems to remain a welcome and warming listen.

Lake Trout shatters through the obvious comparisons, attaining a lofty sound all their own.

This could’ve been a compelling EP but it’s an overlong and thinly-stretched full-length.

Intended as a soundtrack for one of the most (in)famous exploitation films of all time, there’s very little that feels exploitative about this.

Listening to these recordings, you get a real sense of just how overwhelming this group must be to experience live.

Designed for Reading retains a consistent cinematic feel, full of dramatic drones, haunting vocal pieces, and dark slabs of ambience.

There’s a confidence, a security that comes across in his music that is terribly comforting.

Hood’s music, even in EP form, is as mercurial and affecting as ever, while still managing to hint at exciting things that may come.

Epic45 belongs to a small cadre of bands that, for the purposes of this review, I am going to term “nostalgists.”

A fascinating extension of Richard Swift’s musical talent.

For all of the band’s angst-ridden vocals and explosive song dynamics, it never really gets the blood flowing.

A nice compilation that shows off the Japanese shoegaze scene.

There’s such a wealth of ideas and detail in Sutton’s compositions that even hearing other people’s takes on those elements feels like wholly original material.

Lars Gotrich experiences a six-day avant-garde jazz music and arts festival and survives to tell the tale.