Solitaire by Fjord Mustang (Album Review)
“If everybody’s looking through me, I don’t exist” sings Vicky Egam, lead vocalist of Torontonian indie rockers Fjord Mustang on Five Years, the impressive opening track on their newest album…
Interview: Kristin Hsiao
Kristin Hsiao (葵斯汀) Kristin Hsiao (葵斯汀) is an electronic music producer from Taiwan. Through online performances on her Instagram, she has been gathering a following who enjoy her atmospheric and…
Delay 45 – Flux (Album Review)
Delay 45 are a jazz ensemble from Sydney, Australia. Just as that cosmopolitan city is set into its vast red continent, the group set traditional jazz elements; piano, trumpet, bass,…
Monologues by Iván Muela (Album Review)
Monologues is the most recent album from London-based ambient producer Iván Muela. Released on the Rusted Tone tape label, the album sees the artist develop intense and brooding atmospheres over…
Laurie Shaw – The Great Southern (Album Review)
Liverpudlian-cum-Kerry man Laurie Shaw is a hard artist to keep up with. By the time you’ve got around to listening to his new album, another one has been released. Ostensibly…
Park Jiha – The Gleam (Album Review)
A stunning release from Korean multi-instrumentalist composer Park Jiha, The Gleam ruminates on the essence of light, that ubiquitous electromagnetic radiation that comes and goes as does the day and…
Dday One – Mau Propria (Album Review)
There are many aspects of this album to appreciate, from the well-selected and chopped spoken world samples, to the eloquent sense of space created in the mix, Manu Propria is…
Single Reviews: 16th February 2022: Zrangorn, Maruja, Box of Matches, My Twisted Heart
photo by Andreea Chiser Zrangorn – Black Berlin Black Berlin is the title track of the most recent EP from Ballina’s Zrangorn (Conor Hickey). From the moment the sinister synth…
Small Island Big Song by Small Island Big Song (Album Review)
An ambitious eighteen-track project recorded “in the field, from the grassroots up'” on various islands across the Pacific and Indian ocean, Small Island Big Song is a beguiling document of…
Repetitive Music Vol. 1 by Misha Panfilov (Album Review)
As twentieth-century composer Arnold Schoenberg said: “Intelligibility in music seems to be impossible without repetition.” and on Resistive Music Vol 1, Misha Panfilov has taken that maxim and run with…