current album reviews
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 […]
Cyrus Pireh, “Thank You, Guitar” (Palilalia, 2025)
I had not encountered this Detroit-based guitar visionary’s work before this debut for Bill Orcutt’s Palilalia label, but it seems like Pireh was already blowing minds with his previous album […]
Death and Vanilla, “Whistle And I’ll Come To You” (Fire, 2025)
This is Death and Vanilla’s third re-imagined soundtrack to date (the others being Vampyr & The Tenant), but it seems like a much higher profile release than the previous two […]
Biosphere, “The Way of Time” (AD93, 2025)
This latest album from Geir Jenssen’s long-running ambient/techno project admittedly blindsided me a bit, as I had not been keeping up with his recent releases on his own Biophon label. […]
Jake Muir, “Campana Sonans” (enmossed, 2025)
Colorfully described as “a synapse-popping electro-acoustic soundwalk around Western Europe’s cathedrals,” Campana Sonans is a pair of deeply immersive and hallucinatory sound collages inspired by the daily sounds of church […]
Pye Corner Audio, “Lake Deep Memory” (Quiet Details, 2025)
This latest album from shapeshifting synth conjurer Martin Jenkins is his first for Quiet Details and captures him in one of his more “immersive soundscape” moods. Notably, I have historically […]