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MY DISCO Share Their New Dark Ambient Album, Environment
Like all of the MY DISCO albums that came before it, Environment examines the Australian trio’s sound from completely new angles and emerges a band reborn. Befitting their recent signing to Regis’ Downwards imprint and their boundless surroundings at Boris Wilsdorf’s Berlin studio, it’s a spare and spooky experiment that references everything from Rainforest Spiritual […]
Lawrence Chandler Looks Back At the Past 20 Years, From Bowery Electric to Happy Families
Photo LUCIA RIVERO Rather than simply point out Beggars’ welcome reissue of Lushlife—Lawrence Chandler and Martha Schwendener’s final album under the name Bowery Electric—we thought we’d ask Chandler to reflect on how the past two decades lead him from the duo’s singular mix of trip-hop, drone, and ambient textures to the shadow-boxed pop of his […]
Chasms’ Favorite Dub Tracks
Photography JESS GARTEN One of the most striking things about Chasms’ second dream-pop LP—The Mirage, which hits shops today through Felte—is its devotion to dub, and the chemtrails of techno and reggae that lurk just beneath the surface of Shannon Madden and Jess Labrador’s intoxicating music. With that in mind, we asked the bassist and […]
Drekka Breaks Down His New Ambient Industrial Album
Words MKL ANDERSON No Tracks in the Snow (available now on Dais Records) is a collection of four-track recordings from the earliest period of Drekka: 1996-2000. It was a period where I was moving from Chicago to Bloomington, IN, where I still live; moving from the hustle and bustle of the city to the ease […]
UCC Harlo Melds Classical and Club Music on United Album
A long overdue LP that took six years to make