Music

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.

Though slight in stature, beatrixwashere’s 5-track ep, Intruder, is a knotted and thoughtful work on trans identity and religion.

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.

Don’t you hate it when mysterious figures come in your room and transform your body into a latex balloon? Smdh

Black Box,” is an album that exists between electronic and industrial ambient. Plunderphonics that builds its own sonic reality. In its patient construction of space, letting each song build its own room, the album creates a liminal setting worth spending time in.