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Review: Visionist - Safe

The beat of “Victim” stumbles and sucks; electronic booms, reverse cymbals. It’s a body jerking in rash respiratory indecision. The chest bursts outward and retreats at speed. Fragments of melody congregate around the rhythm like twenty thoughts demanding full attention simultaneously. Safe is the sound of peaceful coherence and

Review: Valerio Tricoli - Miseri Lares

The conversational hiss and clang of steam engine maintenance; the psychological haunt of whispering voices whose plosives pop with bubbles of moisture; the gentle rock of a torch suspended from the ceiling; watching overnight planes besides the splintering stream of a wood fire; re-plumbing the water supply of a military

Review: Rashad Becker - Traditional Music Of Notional Species Vol. I

Many of the sounds populating Rashad Becker’s PAN debut are “slurps”: watery, bubbly slugs of glissando that travel up the side of my head like a tongue licking me from my cheekbone to my crown. Each track starts with just a couple of these sorts of sounds – sparingly used

Review: Aaron Dilloway + Jason Lescalleet - Grapes And Snakes

It’s as though the record player needle has developed a serrated edge, crawling laboriously through the grooves and cutting untidily into the vinyl surface. Despite being the product of remote collaboration, Grapes And Snakes carries an ugly, visceral intimacy that evokes the illusion of a physical and real-time contact

Review: Mika Vainio + Kevin Drumm + Axel Dörner + Lucio Capece - Venexia

The release page for this four-way collaboration highlights the various lines of connection between each of the participants (Capece and Vainio’s work in the Vladislav Delay Quartet, Drumm’s previous trio work with Dörner and Capece etc), as though Venexia was an inevitability, merely awaiting for the paths to

Review: Ben Vida - esstends-esstends-esstends

“Higher amplitude will help to reveal” claims the press blurb of esstends-esstends-esstends. True to word, increasing the playback volume appears to push the walls outward and backward, ballooning the sounds themselves to bigger sizes and shunting them to extremes of distance. The album toys with the listener’s place within

Review: NHK'Koyxeи - Dance Classics Vol.I

Even for someone with no previous exposure to the music of Kouhei Matsunaga (such as myself), a quick glance at his collaborative history is enough to suggest the eclecticism of his artistic output: partnerships alongside the blistering volume of Merzbow right the way through to the ambient micro-movements of Asmus