Thou Make Us a
Hardcore Mixtape
Photo CRAIG MULCAHY When we first heard about May Our Chambers Be Full and The Helm of Sorrow — the two intense, multi-faceted records Thou cut with Emma Ruth Rundle for Sacred Bones — we thought an explanation was in order. Not of how this happened. The pairing makes perfect sense, to be honest. Enough to […]
Allred & Broderick
Distill 11-Hour Score
Down to One Stunning LP
It’s a little surreal to be sharing What the Fog this week — the very same week that museums are set to reopen with restrictions here in Minneapolis. As encouraging as the news is at such an uncertain time for artists, it doesn’t change how many people now view exhibits. Which is less as a point of […]
Rutger Hoedemaekers
Wraps Long-Awaited
Solo Album For 130701
Rutger Hoedemaekers has shared the second official single from his long overdue debut LP The Age of Oddities. Due out March 5th through the FatCat imprint 130701, the record was started way back in 2016 and took years to complete due to its daunting use of processed vocals (Kira Kira, Theatre of Voices’ Else Torp […]
Keith and Hollie Kenniff
Embrace the Haze on
New Mint Julep Album
Longtime creative / life partners Keith and Hollie Kenniff have announced their latest Mint Julep LP. Due out March 19th through Western Vinyl, In a Deep and Dreamless Sleep was developed during the same prolific time period as the couple’s last album (Stray Fantasies) but has its own gauzy sound hanging over it. “Our previous […]
Om Unit Channels
Basic Channel, Deadbeat
On Acid Dub Studies
Photo KHALI ACKFORD Om Unit has revealed his latest self-released solo record. Due out February 19th, Acid Dub Studies is exactly that: a 303-driven tour de ambient techno and woozy reggae melodies. Jim Coles hinted at the heady project on last year’s mini-LP Secret Location, a killer Seekersinternational collab that’s worth a look and a […]
Tomahawk Announce First
New Album In Eight Years
Photo ERIC LIVINGSTON Tomahawk — the longtime outlet of Mike Patton (Faith No More), Duane Denison (The Jesus Lizard), and John Stanier (Battles) — have shared the lead single from their first proper LP in eight years. Dubbed “a mocking look at the life of work in America” by Denison, “Business Casual” was first teased […]
ACT! and Mixed Media Artist Karen Vanderborght Give Their Younger Selves Advice
When David Psutka mentioned a special augmented reality project in passing last year, it sounded par for the course, to be honest. After all, the Toronto producer / Halocline Trance founder shed his longtime Egyptrixx alias in favor of the far more avant-garde ACT! a couple years back, and it’s lived up to his left-field […]
Bartosz Kruczyński
Makes Us a Dance Mix
Under His Earth Trax Alias
Words + Mix BARTOSZ KRUCZYŃSKI Photography ANNA BYSTROWSKA The idea behind this mix was to expand on my last album, LP2 – Ambient Dance. It focuses on both new and old tracks, the majority of which are from Bandcamp. I think we are in this transition period where a lot of the older generation DIY […]
M. Caye Castagnetto Helps
Us Make Sense of the Many
Layers Within Leap Second
Considering how unclassifiable Leap Second is, we were eager to hear how M. Caye Castagnetto arrived at what Castle Face co-founder John Dwyer aptly calls “a truly interesting conglomeration of loose inspirations and conjurings,” featuring a “sprinkling of Catherine Ribeiro, Dr. John, Terje Rypdal, and Nico.” Or as Bjorn Copeland of Black Dice puts it, […]