Reviews of Music, Movies, Anime & More

A definite sleeper album, and one that will probably fly under most people’s radars.

Featuring Aarktica, Robin Guthrie, July Skies, I Am Robot and Proud, Lowlife, and more.

Klotzsch’s drifting soundscapes conjure up images of a windswept, rain-battered terrain.

As the title implies, this is dark, dank, atmospheric stuff, hinting at all of the aforementioned imagery.

On Continental, Robin Guthrie shakes free somewhat of his own well-defined sound.

Trying to enjoy Lansing-Dreiden’s chimerical music this time around proved rather difficult.

Epic45 weaves in a sense of nostalgia and wistfulness that touches on the notions of abandoned, forgotten places.

It captures into the meandering melancholy and sense of longing that characterizes Haruki Murakami’s writing.

I find something especially beguiling about Newman’s harsh, brittle soundscapes.

So when I say I had no idea what to expect when I slipped Circles into the player, I really mean that.

Conjures up every cliché of goth/darkwave music… and then easily transcends them.

To be perfectly honest, I just think Munk has found himself in a bit of rut.

An exhilarating of sampling, laptop electronica, glitch pop, and hip-hop.

Captain Yonder are at their best when Pfeiffer and Co. are busy drumming up a rollicking number.

Again, there’s a sense of vastness, and yet there’s none of the obligatory epic flourishes that one often hears in trance music.

This is Saint Etienne doing what they do best: writing breathless, effortless pop songs populated with stories of heartache and longing.

There’s an expansiveness to Bows’ music that it makes seem better suited to the silver screen than on a simple stereo.

This gloomily lush, opaque pop unfolds with every listen to reveal an amazing array of sonic details that consistently proves lovely and alluring.

An album that sounds as if it was composed only for long drives in the horizon’s general direction.

Rocinate is not without its weaknesses, but those only come as a result, I think, of being too ambitious.