A new EP from Nicolas Jaar, now working alongside bassist Dave Harrington as Darkside. All the flourishes of Monsieur Jaar’s charming and restrained production are fully intact. This is just a ten-inch, but ten-inches from this man beats 12-inches from any other (no innuendo intended). Already sold out at boomkat.com but you can pick it up now [...]
The first Digitalis release of the new year and the first new material we get to hear from Grant Evans’ amazing Nova Scotian Arms project in 2012. Prepare yourself for total drone immersion; purchase from either digitalisindustries.com or boomkat.com. UPDATE: Now being distributed by beta.forcedexposure.com.
In lieu of featuring a cassette today, we will instead hype this vinyl debut from Concessionaires Pete Fosco and Brad Rose, two heavy-hitters in the underground ambient/noise tape scene. Concessionaires is their name when they play together, and the UK label Under the Spire is putting out this righteous slab. Pre-order is available right now [...]
Prairie Fire Tapes just released a huge new batch – ten new tapes, to be exact. I won’t write about them all here, but I will point out there is a new tape from Celer, which is always cause for celebratin’. You can buy all the new tapes for $55 Canadian dollars, which are similar [...]
It’s not Tuesday, but in case you did not read the title, Land of Decay is currently offering 30% off of all of their tape prices! This is the label run by the Locrian boys, so you know their taste is impeccable, and I seriously recommend that you just add every single tape to your [...]
At long, long last – the vinyl pressing of A Winged Victory For The Sullen is available to purchase. As with any Stars of the Lid related project, this music is achingly, painfully beautiful. Dustin O’Halloran & Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie bring the slow-mo orchestral drama with brainwash guitar accompaniment. Perfect ambient from people who know [...]
This 12″ is a limited pressing made for Social Music’s Record & Tape Club. It is available here individually for $12. If your head didn’t just explode then you forgot to read the word Grouper in the post title. Must grip – littleaxerecords.com (hint: click on Distributed Titles).
I’m not really sure how or why, but Polish Michael Jacaszek was instrumental in leading both Spencer and I into the drone/ambient/experimental scene. The delicate, beautiful textures he creates work as the perfect entry point for newcomers, there is simply no way one could not like this stuff. His newest album on Ghostly is a [...]
For her new material, Alicia Merz has taken her Birds of Passage moniker deeper and darker than it’s ever gone before. Taking heavy instrumental influence from drone, ambient, and field recordings, Merz is able to craft these minimal soundscapes into stunningly beautiful outsider-folk/pop masterpieces. The full-length is amazing, the 10″ EP contains a collaboration with [...]
We are more than excited to see a new LP from Ilyas Ahmed – especially on Immune, who did such a fine job with the 2xLP pressing of Between Two Skies/Towards The Night. With Endless Fire sees the artist further solidifying his position as one of the most gifted artists in the droning realms of [...]
