Sep 28, 2022 Music Grace Notes: Jay Tholen, Mount Eerie Jay Tholen offers more Gospel chiptune and Mount Eerie contemplates mankind’s fragile existence.
Sep 22, 2022 Music Grace Notes: Jay Tholen, Either/Orwell Jay Tholen’s music is bizarre, worshipful… and unlike anything else you’ve likely heard emerge from Christian circles.
Sep 22, 2017 Music On Celestial Archive, Jay Tholen Finds Joy and Security in God’s Sovereignty (Review) Tholen’s first album in four years finds him pondering marriage, being an artist, and the mysteries of God’s divine will.
Sep 10, 2016 Video Games Police the Internet of the Future in Hypnospace Outlaw Tholen has launched a Kickstarter campaign to help fund the game’s development.
Sep 15, 2015 Video Games Who knew you could make a video game about a twerking, hug-loving clown? Remember, not every video game is about shooting and killing.
Jan 1, 2014 Best of Opus Music My Favorite Songs of 2013, Part 1: Arcade Fire, Mary Onettes, My Bloody Valentine, Daft Punk & more Featuring gloriously mopey ’80s pop, robotic heartbreak, shimmering dreampop, late night ambience, and the return of a music legend.
May 4, 2013 Music The Low Drone of Earth by Jay Tholen (Review) The Low Drone of Earth may be Tholen’s darkest album to date, but it’s also one of his most successful and well-realized.
Sep 7, 2012 Music When Ominous Red Sailing Stones Sleep Beneath Fire Rainbows by Jay Tholen (Review) The album continues Tholen’s streak as a fine purveyor of weird, fascinating music from the fringes of Christendom.
Sep 16, 2011 Music Vainglory EP by Jay Tholen (Review) Tholen’s latest is another fine example of his “Christ-centered chipwave.”
Jan 6, 2011 Music Control Me by Jay Tholen (Review) What if Anamanaguchi, Susumu Hirasawa, Ronnie Martin, and Sufjan Stevens got together and made a chiptune gospel album?