increasingly concise reviews of contemporary underground psych, drone, experimental, sound art, and electronic music from the fringes
Hugo Randulv, “Drunkna I Ljus” (Discreet, 2025)
Billed as a “minimal masterpiece of immense beauty,” this second album from Enhet För Fri Musik’s Hugo Randulv is composed of two longform pieces for electric cello and controlled feedback. […]
Laura Cannell, “LYRELYRELYRE” (Brawl, 2025)
This 11th solo album from Laura Cannell was amusingly inspired by an eight-year-old conversation with writer/researcher/foghorn enthusiast Jennifer Lucy Allan, who once wrote the titular pun on a post-it note. […]
Kara-Lis Coverdale, “From Where You Came” (Smalltown Supersound, 2025)
I was beginning to despair that I may never hear a new Kara-Lis Coverdale album ever again, as it has been eight years since the Montreal-based composer last surfaced with […]
Romance, “Love Is Colder Than Death” (Ecstatic, 2025)
The latest release from this oft-fascinating (and anonymous) London-based project is billed as a “noir ambient masterpiece” and a “fever dream in the lineage of Dashiel Hammett and David Lynch.” […]
Ash Fure, “Animal” (Smalltown Supersound, 2025)
This is arguably the solo debut from iconoclastic NYC composer Ash Fure, but it has been preceded by quite an impressive & eclectic run of ambitious performances and major accolades […]
Pacific Walker, “Lost in the Valley of the Sun” (Bluesanct, 2025)
This is the second release from the trio of Isaac Edwards, Michael Tapscott, and Raphi Gottesman, but the three artists have a long history together, as all were previously members […]