Music Review January Wrap-Up pretty atom EP GN4W 1/20/2026 – KITJAM TRAX Stream/Shop: pretty atom EP | GN4W | KITJAM TRAX Cover Artist: DORK28 Highlights While there is an abrasive edge to GN4W’s pretty atom EP, it’s never to this electronic production’s detriment. For as chaotic as a track like “fikuzari arazayun 2” is, there’s […]
In “all the love that i have lost,” fade away underscores a transcendent musicality both within and obscured by a truly magnificent work of HNW that is expansive, abrasive, emotional, beautiful, and profane.
For as cold a title Let’s drink radioactive beer at the end of the world is, Goose Loop’s blend of ambient and jungle is aptly frigid for this ethereal and desolate album.
“Violent Spring” stimulates the brain in a colorful and soft listening experience that showcases a skilled sight for wandering structure from artist Hadd_.
Whatever hardcore electronic genre you want to call DI4LECT FR0M REfLECTIONS, it certainly goes all in at all times. The garishly produced work from the eclectic Hydroplaned Into a False Reality! takes a recklessly over cranked approach to form in a self-destructive experiment that’s blitzed out of its mind.
The role of the critic has been hijacked for the sake of the attention economy, which in turn favors the biggest buyers.
Though slight in stature, beatrixwashere’s 5-track ep, Intruder, is a knotted and thoughtful work on trans identity and religion.
We cannot have an industry of representation built on secrecy. The celluloid closet still exists.
The ephemeral quality to Rooms Without Doors, “Houses (with things that’ve died),” is transfixing. A frozen soundscape that tilts into the mournful, processing its grief across its runtime as it comes back down to earth.