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Album Review: Iceage – For Love Of Grace & the Hereafter
In his book of teachings Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, the monk Shunryū Suzuki stresses the importance of open-mindedness, curiosity, and wonder, qualities that can over time become obscured by judgment, preferences, and limiting standards or criteria. In art, the so-called ‘return to basics’ is similarly designed to connect or reconnect one with inspiration or
Album Review: YHWH Nailgun – Magazine
Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies are designed to prompt artists in such a way that they can break away from habits, overcome blocks, and move into fresh creative spaces. While these strategies lean philosophic (“Emphasize the flaws”, “Honour thy error as a hidden intention”), they can also be practically applied (“No guitars”, “Use only major chords”). One ima
Album Review: SML – Spontaneous Music Live
With their first two LPs, SML – Anna Butterss (bass), Jeremiah Chiu (synthesizers), Josh Johnson (saxophone), Booker Stardrum (percussion), and Gregory Uhlmann (guitar) – recorded various performances in various cities, then bolted to the studio à la Makaya McCraven, adding overdubs, making modifications, and applying effects. On both albums, the group’s syn
Album Review: $quib – Erring
Broadband internet, easy access to DIY recording technology, video-game soundtracking, and the ubiquity of stimuli – in the world, in our screens, in our heads – inevitably gave birth to hyper-, digi-, and glitch- core, each of which can be grouped under the broad umbrella of maximalism. Which is still proliferating: notably, the volatile gash will release a