Northern Valentine’s latest conjures up massive, ominous soundscapes that beckon to be explored by patient listeners.

All in all, In Sea Remixes offers little new insight into Aarktica’s music or any of the remixers.

Aarktica’s latest is a return to the drone-oriented ambience of their earliest releases, but it exhibits a polish and poise that only a decade of experience can provide.

An evocative recording for doomed voyages through uncharted, treacherous — and heartbreakingly beautiful — waters.

Plumerai are clearly heading in the right direction with their sound.

When Lycia hits their stride, all of the pretense and bombast works entirely in their favor, and the music feels more comprehensive and accomplished than portentous.

Black Happy Day leaves the listener smack dab in the middle of a foreboding, constantly shifting environment.

Though not without its flaws, this EP is proof that Plumerai have things figured pretty well out.

The result is a twisted, screaming mass of feedback along the lines of David Pearce and Richard Walker’s finest moments.

Conjures up every cliché of goth/darkwave music… and then easily transcends them.

I find something especially beguiling about Newman’s harsh, brittle soundscapes.

Soundscapes that transport listeners to surreal, alien, and dark territories.

Lycia is probably one of the few modern bands to truly capture and continue the sounds captured on such seminal discs as Faith and Pornography without sounding like mere copycats.

Because of the album’s truncated recording, it’s pretty raw and unfinished in places, more a work in progress suspended in time than anything else.

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

When you think you have the album figured out, the band seems content on frustrating your expectations.

There’s a quality to Pure Tone Audiometry that plays with your perception of the sounds therein.

Kobi create pieces of stunning focus and intensity, especially given the unstructured approach behind their construction.

A classically trained vocalist and a punk rock bassist unite to create an intriguing drone album.

One of the hardest things of all to understand about this album is why it sounds so much like everything the people in the songs want to escape.