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EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Rorcal Are Back With Earthflesh In Tow To Celebrate “Witch Coven”

March 30, 2021

This is one of those premieres which starts with a warning. The below album is not an easy, light, or joyful piece of music. For those familiar with Rorcal and their black/doom/experimental explorations, this ... Read More...

EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Listen to Yardsss’ Enigmatic “∅∀‡ | Cultus” A Day Before Its Release

Eden Kupermintz

September 10, 2020

Premieres

Where runs the line between drone, ambient, and post-rock? It sometimes seems as if the borders between these genres are often blurred and porous as dexterous bands navigate them without much trouble. The feed... Read More...

Bohren & der Club of Gore – Patchouli Blue

Scott Murphy

January 23, 2020

Reviews

Depending on how it's executed, music (and instrumental music in particular) has the potential to be the most transportive mode of expression. Other mediums like film, literature, and art obviously have the ab... Read More...

Have a Nice Life – Sea of Worry

Scott Murphy

November 4, 2019

Reviews

As important as first impressions can be, they're often given more weight than they deserve. Lead singles often receive these types of extreme initial reactions, something exacerbated by the seemingly increasi... Read More...

Hashshashin – Badakhshan

Scott Murphy

October 1, 2019

Reviews

After five years with the blog, there are a number of posts I still look back on fondly. My interview with Lachlan R. Dale still ranks among my all-time favorites for a number of reasons. First, and most obvio... Read More...

Feast of the Epiphany – Practicing Loss

Jordan Jerabek

September 24, 2019

Reviews

Feast of the Epiphany is a unique project. The brainchild of composer Nick Podgurski – along with collaborators Andrew Smiley and Caley Monahon-Ward – the group merges the seemingly incompatible worlds of dron... Read More...

EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Worship at the “Shrines of the Wakhan” with Hashshashin’s Psychedelic Middle Eastern Post-Rock

Scott Murphy

September 11, 2019

Premieres

With my current schedule being as tight as it is, there has to be something compelling about a release to warrant one of my verbose, 1,000+ word reviews; the days where I'd publish near daily reviews on Sputni... Read More...

Pharmakon – Devour

Scott Murphy

August 16, 2019

Reviews

There's been much written about both the quality of vinyl and the lack thereof. I'm not interested in wading into the fidelity wars, but I do want to cite a recent "What's In My Bag" segment with Shepard Faire... Read More...

EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: “Follow the Snake” with New Video from Zvi

Scott Murphy

August 1, 2019

Premieres, Video

Feature Photo by Justina Villanueva Ron Varod (Kayo Dot, Psalm Zero) has kept busy since releasing the phenomenal Deer Pink as Zvi in April. He relocated from Brooklyn to Portland (Oregon), released a colle... Read More...

Earth – Full Upon Her Burning Lips

Scott Murphy

May 20, 2019

Reviews

The quintessential difficult decision is almost always a "lesser of two evils" situation. In music, this typically manifests in an artist's path forward; do they forge ahead along the charted path, or divert i... Read More...

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