Jun 3, 2015 Music Holly Herndon’s Electronic Music Dazzles, Disorients on Platform (Review) For all of its artificiality, there’s very little that’s cold, clinical, or merely “academic” about Platform.
Dec 2, 2006 Music IBM 1401, A User’s Manual by Jóhann Jóhannsson (Review) A tribute to an old computer, the five long tracks that make up this disc are elegiac and gorgeous.
Jul 4, 2006 Music The Drift by Scott Walker (Review) You must either acquiesce to Scott Walker’s latest or just throw the whole thing away and move onto something safer.
Apr 3, 2005 Music Euphoria by Insides (Review) You get the feeling you could see entire seasons pass with this record on the changer, falling in and out of love and hate as it plays on.
Jan 19, 2003 Music Writers Without Homes by Piano Magic (Review) Piano Magic picks up right where This Mortal Coil left off.
Jun 1, 2002 Music Spooky by Lush (Review) Lush always focused more on the ‘pop’ side of the ‘dreampop’ equation.
Jan 12, 2002 Music Son De Mar by Piano Magic (Review) Haunting soundscapes that conjure up misty beaches, abandoned lighthouses, and hulking shipwrecks.
Jan 12, 2002 Music Dead Can Dance (1981-1998) by Dead Can Dance (Review) 4 discs might seem like a little much for any band, but given Dead Can Dance’s diverse, extensive catalog, it feels just about right.
Aug 8, 2001 Music Ask Me Tomorrow by Mojave 3 (Review) Mojave 3 has gone for a starker acoustic sound that’s stripped down, sparse, and surprisingly more inviting.
Jun 30, 2001 Music Sleeps with the Fishes by Pieter Nooten, Michael Brook (Review) Sleeps with the Fishes is adept at taking what should be morose music and converts it into something resplendent.
Dec 21, 2000 Music Polydistortion by Gusgus (Review) Throws a wrench into the idea that 4AD will forever be consigned to releasing ethereal female-fronted groups.
Dec 21, 2000 Music Soundpool by Dif Juz (Review) This is a reissue of two records, Huremics and Vibrating Air, by one of the 4AD record label’s most criminally unheard of bands.
Nov 3, 2000 Music Come on the Phone by Magnétophone (Review) Play any of these songsfor someone and tell them it’s a long-lost Autechre b-side and they’d probably believe you.
Sep 9, 2000 Music This Is Normal by Gusgus (Review) Confirms the fact that we are hearing one of the most exquisite groups of the ’90s, and of the next decade.