We’ve been feverishly anticipating this one, so excited it’s finally out. Bathetic has just released Cough Cool’s debut LP. If you’ve heard Dan Svizeny’s bedroom pop brilliance before (we released a tape on SLG awhile back), you know what you’re in for. For newcomers, give this album a listen below, we think you’ll fall in [...]
Three Lobed Recordings dug into the catacombs to pull out this awesome collaborative LP by Bardo Pond and Tom Carter. Originally recorded eight years ago, “4/25/03″ is an interesting time-capsule that hints at where drone/psychedelic music would go in the coming years. It sounds like early, primitive recordings by Barn Owl or Grails, which is [...]
Sorry for the slow posting lately, life has been incredibly busy for both of us. Still, we should’ve posted about this album sooner, its a stunner. Pete Swanson, formerly of Yellow Swans, has just released an LP that will surely make a bunch of year-end lists. If you haven’t noticed (you will when you read [...]
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 [...]
Here’s a bent-electronica record from one of our favorite labels (Draft, a subsidiary of Gift Tapes) and one of our favorite experimental artists (Matt Carlson from Golden Retriever). Sci-fi synth shit is over. Mind-melding techno weirdness is king. You either love it or hate it, enough said. Limited to 500 copies and available via DraftRecords.com.
It seems that fucked-up electronica is seriously taking over. Among the kings of this movement is the KPLR duo. Now just a one-man act (Dexter Brightman), KPLR finally has a debut full-length LP on Digitalis. Complete weirdo shit, for warped, spun-out techno heads. Sold out through the label already, but available via Experimedia. untitled by [...]
If you’ve ever wanted anything from Immune, or just want some great music, be sure to hit up their Black Friday sale. They’re blowing out single LPs for $8, double LPs for $12, and CDs for $7. So much good stuff, seriously. Visit ImmuneRecordings.net.
Every once in awhile, a record comes to us from a relatively unknown artist that simply blows us away. I had never heard of Clint Heidorn before, but when his email said that he was referred over by Experimedia’s Jeremy Bible, I knew it’d probably be good. “Atwater”, it turns out, is great. It’s a [...]
Seriously, if the whole Locrian/Utech camp aren’t considering reigning kings of the dark, experimental scene by now, I don’t know who is. Ural Umbo, comprised of Reto Mäder and Locrian’s Steven Hess, have been sprinkling the world with some of the deepest, darkest drones possible for the past couple of years. Utech just dropped their [...]
