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NOW PLAYING: Mist, ‘House’
The Artist/Album: Mist, House (Spectrum Spools, 2011) A Short Review: The fourth release from John Elliott’s new vanity label is a side project sojourn with Radio People’s Sam Goldberg. Best experienced as a maroon-flavored double LP, House justifies its hefty import-only price tag with a multi-tiered suite of torrential drone tones, saw-toothed synth waves, and […]
NOW PLAYING: Four Tet, ‘Rounds’
The Artist/Album: Four Tet, Rounds (Domino, 2003) A Short Review: Declare a dude’s quilt-like productions “folktronica” and this is what he does in return: send his samples spiraling through space in the hopes of hitting us square in the head (the silver bells and scenery-chewing rhythm section of “She Moves She,” the adrenaline shot loops […]
THE S/T ARCHIVES: An Interview Between GZA and Telepathe
Now that Telepathe‘s finally released unveiled some new material–one side of a single that’ll be available exclusively through Insound next month–we thought we’d revisit one of our favorite magazine features of all time: a completely random conversation between the Wu-Tang-obsessed duo and GZA. Here’s one pull quote, of which there were many: “There’s a fine […]
TEST PRESSING: Stream Light Asylum’s ‘In Tension’ EP
When the s/t office first heard about Mexican Summer‘s Light Asylum signing, we thought, ‘Oh great, our favorite local act is finally going to finish their debut album.’ Little did we know that it’s not on tap until next year. Guess they’re taking their time in hopes of getting things right. Or maybe they’re just […]
Xander Harris Makes Us a Kosmische Mix, From Klaus Schulze to Cluster
Much like the smoke-engulfed serial killer sleeve of his debut album (Urban Gothic, available now on Not Not Fun), the synth-guided songs of Xander Harris pay tribute to horror’s heyday; a time where John Carpenter’s crystalline keys were as creepy as Michael Myers’ mask and the death toll that went along with it. And unlike […]
RECORDING UNDER THE INFLUENCE: Liturgy On … Friedrich Nietzsche
Words by Hunter Hunt-Hendrix The single most important non-musical influence on the composition of Aesthethica, and generally the existence of the Liturgy music project, is the work of Friedrich Nietzsche. Below are five aspects of that influence…
PREMIERE: Cave In, “Heartbreaks, Earthquakes”
While we’re currently in the thick of it with the next issue of self-titled, our old friends Cave In were nice enough to share a song from their new White Silence LP. The long-awaited (six years!) effort hits shops next Tuesday through Hydra Head, and we’re happy to report that it’s a welcome blend of […]
PREMIERE: Sole Teams Up With Tobacco On “Pianos Falling”
Not to make this Anticon week–see our 13 & God stream–or anything, but one of its longtime artists, Sole, recently wrapped his first full-length since officially leaving the label early last year. And true to his past work, Hello, Cruel World (available July 19th on Fake Four, Inc.) is a bewildering effort featuring his longtime […]