May 21, 2016 Music In Rotation: Winter Severity Index, William Ryan Fritch, 2814 & Eco Virtual (Review) Wintry darkwave, glorious orchestral-folk cacophonies, sleepy urban soundscapes, and vaporwave muzak.
May 12, 2016 Music Hyper Light Drifter (Original Soundtrack) by Disasterpeace (Review) Disasterpeace’s evocative soundtrack is reason enough to play “Hyper Light Drifter.”
Apr 23, 2016 Music Settlers by Western Skies Motel (Review) Leave it to a guy from Denmark to compose the perfect soundtrack for driving across the Nebraska prairie.
Apr 21, 2016 Music Blind Spot EP by Lush (Review) Lush’s first release in two decades contains nothing all that groundbreaking— but why would it need to?
Apr 16, 2016 Music Wavehymnal EP by Makeup and Vanity Set (Review) Another solid, engaging release by one of the best musicians working in electronic music today.
Apr 2, 2016 Music Deafcult by Deafcult (Review) You get the sense that Deafcult’s members love making this music, and they love making it as loud and raucous as possible.
Mar 31, 2016 Music Oh! by The Big Eyes Family Players (Review) A chilled, challenging psychedelic album that will reward the patient listener.
Mar 23, 2016 Music Translucence / Drift Music by John Foxx, Harold Budd (Review) “Drift Music” is lovely but “Translucence” is required listening material for fans of elegant, serene ambient music.
Feb 13, 2016 Movies Turbo Kid by François Simard, Anouk Whissell, Yoann-Karl Whissell (Review) The ultra-gory post-apocalyptic BMX action film with a heart of a gold that you’ve been waiting for.
Jan 20, 2016 Music Into the Heart of the Eternal by vidnaObmana (Review) A fantastic point of entry into the career of one of ambient music’s most distinctive and prolific voices.
Jan 14, 2016 Music Thirty by Irezumi (Review) Irezumi crafts ambient soundscapes with such elegance that they never feel insufferable or too consumed by their own gloom.
Dec 24, 2015 Movies Star Wars: The Force Awakens by J. J. Abrams (Review) Though definitely flawed, The Force Awakens left me with a sense of wonder that lasted long after I left the theatre.
Nov 14, 2015 Music Strength by The Violet Burning (Review) Arguably my favorite worship album of all time.
Oct 19, 2015 Music Snow Leopard Messiah by Nature and Organisation (Review) Snow Leopard Messiah reveals that Cashmore’s greatest contribution to neofolk is how supremely listenable and pleasant he makes it.
Aug 30, 2015 Music Floaters by Lightning Bug (Review) It’s not often that an album comes from out of nowhere and immediately charms and enchants you. This is one of those albums.
Jul 25, 2015 Music In Rotation: Pilotpriest, Cascading Slopes, The Green Kingdom, Tim Story & CFCF (Review) Cinematic electronic music, Quaker-influenced synthpop, spacious ambient dub, atmospheric chamber music, and exotic instrumentals.
Jul 17, 2015 Anime Knights of Sidonia’s Second Season Is a Huge Disappointment (Review) Knights of Sidonia’s second season sacrifices nearly everything that made its first season so interesting and refreshing.
Jun 27, 2015 Music ‘Pale Horses’ Is mewithoutYou’s Most Amibitious — and Troubling — Album to Date (Review) Without a doubt, the most ambitious mewithoutYou album to date, by any standard, but also the most troubling.
Jun 27, 2015 Music Noah’s ‘Sivutie’ Envelopes Listeners in Sad, Starry-Eyed Ambience (Review) For those times when you just want to lose yourself in some sad, nostalgic, starry-eyed ambience for an hour or so.
Jun 26, 2015 Movies Pixar’s Inside Out Is Pure, Heartbreaking Cinematic Magic (Review) Pixar’s Inside Out is pure cinematic magic. Also, it reminds me of Mad Max: Fury Road. (No, seriously.)