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Amen Dunes Shares New
Single With Sleaford Mods
Amen Dunes has unveiled his first sign of life since 2018. Streaming below and available to download via Bandcamp, “Feel Nothing” brings Panoram back into the fold on synths and features a surprise appearance by a relatively subdued Sleaford Mods. According to a press release, the single is Damon McMahon’s Sub Pop debut, heralding the […]
Jana Irmert Makes Us a
Playlist of Pieces That
Feature Field Recordings
Photography CAMILLE BLAKE Jana Irmert celebrates the sheer possibilities of sound on The Soft Bit, an album that’s ambient in the literal sense. Yeah, it’s soothing in certain stretches, but other parts resemble the turning point in a David Lynch film where you either let yourself sink into the scenes or have them take you […]
Lawrence English Turns
Amazon Trip Into an
Immersive New Album
While he’s not exactly new to field recordings, Lawrence English has never wrapped a record quite like A Mirror Holds the Sky before. Due out September 3rd through the producer’s own Room40 imprint, the 36-minute album was actually drawn from more than 50 hours of raw Amazon recordings. Not quite the New Age effort you […]
Mother of Mars
Singer Jaiko Suzuki
Makes Us an Ecstatic Mix
Photo RONNIE ARDEN While she’s now seizing the spotlight in Vito Roccoforte and Gabriel Andruzzi’s post-Rapture project Mother of Mars, Jaiko Suzuki’s roots are in New York City’s underground club scene as both a DJ and dancer. With that in mind, we asked her to ring in the trio’s recent I Hear record with the sort of mix […]
Phil Manley
Makes Us a Mixtape of
His Favorite Guitarists
Photography PETER ELLENBY If anyone knows their way around a riff, it’s Phil Manley — the guitar-toting demigod best known for his barn burners with Trans Am, The Fucking Champs, and Oneida. And now there’s the not-quite-NPR-related Terry Gross. A power trio in every sense of the word, it features Manley (pictured on the far […]
Pinkish Black, Pallbearer
Members Unveil Italo Disco
Project, Information_Age
Photography JOHN DURBIN + ELIZABETH L. CLINE It shouldn’t come as a total surprise considering what Joseph D. Rowland (Pallbearer) and Daron Beck (Pinkish Black) have been up to over the past year — solo synthcapades and Zombi-led soft-rock covers — but the two former tourmates just revealed their first proper Italo-disco project. Due out […]
Misantrop Shares the
Stories Behind Their
Deeply Personal Debut
Photography GEORGE NEBIERIDZE We’ve all been there before. We certainly have, at least — that moment where the night’s about to end (make that early morning, actually) and revelry turns to regret. Nicolai Vesterkær Krog dials right into the before and after of every last detail on their Opal Tapes debut Reproaching the Absurd, an art […]
Concentric Records Unveil
Latest Ambient Comp,
Exclusive HOLOVR Cut
Concentric Records have revealed the final installment of the ambient compilation trilogy they launched last summer. Due out July 9th, Radiant is defined by a couple loose concepts: “radiating rays, reflecting beams of light,” and “vividly bright and shining, glowing marked by or expressive of love, confidence, or happiness.” Contributors include ASWA, Max Loderbauer, Petre […]