“Experimental” Reviews

An incredibly immersive and overwhelming experience, especially when listened to on headphones.

Definitely an interesting listen, because I don’t really know of anything that sounds like this.

Listening to any Patton project now is like Bobby McFerrin on crack.

A mix of ambient and industrial that sounds interesting at times but never really comes together.

It’s a foreboding album to listen to, and almost draining, but it’s one that will always hold a special spot in my CD collection.

Pascal Humbert’s cinematic music conjures up images of rundown desert locales and holes-in-the-wall.

The music seems designed to keep listeners as uncomfortable as possible, but Gang Gang Dance occasionally finds a solid groove in the chaos.

Max Richter’s compositions possess an arresting and singular beauty.

Full of examples of why Kranky is one of the most essential — and consistent — labels currently out there in indie-dom.

Even longtime Clinic fans may find this more of the same.

If loving Animal Collective is wrong, I don’t want to be right.

As lovely as Atone’s sounds are, there’s a sense that the songs lack a real focus.

Francesconi possesses a preternatural skill for finding unique connections between seemingly disparate sounds.

Even with the album’s obvious flaws, Summer Make Good is certainly no reason to write off or dismiss Múm.

As much as I want to enjoy the album, it seems insistent on holding me at arm’s length.

On One, Brian John Mitchell explores drone to its fullest, bathing the listener in huge swaths of pure sonic drifts and tides.

Melodium attempts to take purely electronic arrangements and make them sound organic and natural.

An example of pure genius on display, and one can’t help but be inspired and excited while watching it.

More focused and concise then their debut, but still as out there as you’d expect from cLOUDDEAD.