current album reviews
Helena Silva, “Celeste” (Self-Released, 2025)
This debut full-length from Portuguese violinist/composer Helena Silva is a collection of pieces for violin and electronics that first began its life during a 2023 artist residency in Bali. Notably, […]
Saapato, “In Alaska” (AKP Recordings, 2025)
This latest one from upstate New York sound artist Brendan Principato is a collection of site-specific pieces inspired by field recordings made during a 2023 residency with the Alaska Park […]
The Bug vs. Ghost Dubs, “Implosion” (Pressure, 2025)
The Bug’s Machine collection was one of my favorite albums of 2024 by a landslide, as it felt like Kevin Martin’s culminating and defining masterwork as far as his industrial-damaged […]
Kali Malone & Drew McDowall, “Magnetism” (Ideologic Organ, 2025)
This synth-centric debut collaboration between two longtime friends was recorded over the course of a single day in McDowell’s home studio back in 2022. Normally, a one-off recording session that […]
Läuten der Seele, “Unterhaltungen mit Larven und Überresten” (World of Echo, 2025)
This latest opus from Bavarian hauntological supernova Christian Schoppik is a bit of a departure from his excellent “Water” trilogy in a couple of significant ways. The big one is […]
Nurse With Wound/Diarmuid MacDiarmada “Lung Oysters” (United Dairies/Arcana Hibernia, 2025)
In recent years, the most compelling Nurse With Wound albums tend to be collaborations with other artists and this latest opus reaffirms that trend in impressively decisive fashion. Unsurprisingly, Irish […]
Roméo Poirier, “Off The Record” (Faitiche, 2025)
This fourth solo album from the reliably fascinating French collage artist is billed as “an amusing romp through the discarded history of recording studios.” That claim probably wildly oversells this […]
Eli Keszler (LuckyMe, 2025)
Notably, the first Eli Keszler album that I ever heard was 2011’s Cold Pin, which was centered around a complex percussion installation that used motors and microcontrollers to attack strings […]