Feb 6, 2019 Music Tactile Ground Is Robert Rich at His Most Introspective, Demanding, and Sublime (Review) The ambient master’s latest is two hours of otherworldly atmospheres inspired by his experiences with synesthesia.
Feb 2, 2019 Music Under Midnight’s Self-Titled Debut Was an Evangelical Industrial Concept Album (Review) Some of it hasn’t aged well, but Under Midnight’s earnestness and ambition are still worth noting, even after nearly three decades.
Jan 31, 2019 Music How Many Times Have You Driven By by Hana Vu (Review) Hana Vu’s latest EP is filled with catchy dreampop that’s all the more so for its mundanity.
Jan 23, 2019 Music Summer Touch by Macross 82 – 99 (Review) The producer’s future funk is warm, infectious, and perfect for chasing those winter blues away.
Dec 8, 2018 Music Guardian of Winter’s Gate by Hiemal (Review) The prolific French producer has released some of the year’s best dark ambience.
Nov 30, 2018 Music Neon Impasse by City Girl (Review) The “chill-hop” producer blends hip-hop beats, melancholy atmospheres, jazzy riffs, and other elements for supreme chill-out material.
Nov 28, 2018 Music Weighing Souls With Sand by The Angelic Process (Review) The duo’s final album combines black metal and shoegaze to brutal, yet beautiful effect.
Nov 21, 2018 Music The Appearances by Ester Drang (Review) The band’s first release in a dozen years boasts a heavier, more expansive sound.
Oct 31, 2018 Music The Thin Place by Young Hierophant (Review) Inspired by classic horror soundtracks and ’70s educational films, Young Hierophant crafts otherworldly (yet catchy) electronic music.
Oct 23, 2018 Music Launchable Socks’ Quiet Magic Lulls Listeners with its Dreamy, Whimsical Electronica (Review) Joost Kraaijenbrink’s whimsical indietronica sometimes blurs together, but it also contains numerous delights.
Oct 22, 2018 Music Seen and Unseen by The Green Kingdom (Review) A sense of great care and precision always permeates The Green Kingdom’s music.
Oct 22, 2018 Music Shimmer by Gavin Miller (Review) Gavin Miller’s latest mines the same sort of “nostalgist” sound as artists like July Skies and Epic 45.
Oct 22, 2018 Music Still Light by Eternell (Review) If you’re in the mood for music that works best if you just close your eyes and let it drift you away, then this is for you.
Sep 23, 2018 Best of Opus Music Low Tear Their Music Apart on Double Negative, with Stunning Results (Review) Some of the most challenging music of Low’s career, but also some of the most daring, intriguing, and rewarding.
Aug 31, 2018 Music Ogre’s Chairman OST Captivates with Ominous, Haunting Synth Arrangements (Review) The album’s blurred washes of ambience conjure a sense of growing dread — but there’s beauty to be heard, as well.
Aug 25, 2018 Music In Rotation: epic45, mewithoutYou, Petrol Girls, Ruptured World (Review) Nostalgia-laden pastoral post-rock, artistic post-hardcore, raging feminist post hardcore, and a cosmic horror soundtrack.
Aug 25, 2018 Music Endless Frontier by New Society (Review) New Society’s songs possess the sort of candor and bluntness you find in much of Christian industrial music.
Aug 25, 2018 Music We Cast Out the Devil by Christian Image (Review) There’s nevertheless something fascinating about the Belgian trio’s music, raw as it may be.
Aug 25, 2018 Music Innocence by The Children of Power (Review) Part of me thinks they could have achieved the same status that Dead Artist Syndrome and Lifesavers Underground now enjoy in Christian circles.
Aug 25, 2018 Best of Opus Music Old-School Christian Goth & Industrial: The Children of Power, Christian Image, and New Society (Review) These albums are a fascinating glimpse into a realm of Christian music that most people probably never even knew existed.