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 it. Collaging a bouncy, gnarly synth with delayed piano lines, Panfilov takes Stratum fifteen minutes deep, bringing the listener through a trance-like state tillContinue Reading

Sergiu Celibidache once described time as a ‘condition’ by which ‘the multitude of information contained in sound can be reduced to a unity.’ On Formations by Sunhaus, the tracks seemingly escape from the chains of tempo, smearing notes, and musical voices across a spectrum of electronics and glitches. Formations by Sunhaus IfContinue Reading

Rich Freitas has been behind the drum kit for seventeen years now. For bands like Low-beam and Slander, he has been patient in developing his own musical voice. His debut solo album, using the name Ellery Twinning, was recorded in a log cabin in his native Connecticut. These tracks certainly have a bucolic atmosphere;Continue Reading

Quebecois neoclassical composer Jean-Michel Blais has been releasing his own brand of piano-focused instrumental music since his much-acclaimed debut Il came out in 2016. His third album, aubades, sees the composer rearrange over five hundred separate improvised piano pieces into an eleven-track mission statement on the beauty of spontaneity and the importance of aContinue Reading

  heka is a 28 year old Italian artist based in London. She caught my ear last month with the astoundingly gorgeous single ‘no-one’, and I wanted to know more about this somewhat elusive musician.  You’re from Italy but now based in London. Was a career in music your motivationContinue Reading

Photo by kevin laminto Gaslight – Softcult indie rock/pop Gaslight from Softcult’s new EP Year of the Snake balances itself precariously on the line between pop and indie rock. With top-quality production and an obvious knack for melody, the inoffensive track is a joy to listen to. Textured drums keepContinue Reading

If home-produced, rough-around-the-edges indie-pop is your bag, then Quiet Safe Nothings by Gilboa could be right up your ally. For those who appreciate melody and intention over execution, tracks like opener ‘Quiet’ and ‘Away’ will please the most, while my personal favourite ‘Song in Open D’ will find fans with listeners who value honesty and vulnerability in theirContinue Reading

Photo by Alex Plesovskich In the Fade – The Lost Days folk In the Fade, the most recent single from Californian folkies The Lost Days, is a wholesome affair marked by heavily strummed acoustic guitar, loose tambourine, understated vocals, and sliding bass licks. The girl/boy harmonization of the vocals create aContinue Reading