Sonic Reducer: Micro Reviews Of Five Spanish Songs, 7 Days Of Funk And There's A Dream I've Been Saving Sonic Reducer: Micro Reviews Of Five Spanish Songs, 7 Days Of Funk And There's A Dream I've Been Saving Dan Bejar’s project Destroyer just released a new EP of covers, and it’s called Five Spanish Songs. Here, Behar revisits the work of [...] August March \ Dec 12, 2013 Read More
Sonic Reducer: Micro Reviews Of Nina, What The ... And Skull Worship Sonic Reducer: Micro Reviews Of Nina, What The ... And Skull Worship Purists who expect tribute albums to be near-carbon copies—with a passel of tolerable tweaks for individualizing flavor—best steer clear of Xiu Xiu’s Nina, [...] Alibi \ Dec 05, 2013 Read More
Four Up: Texan Seraphim, Doom Desert, Sans Honeybears And Gland Ahoy Texan Seraphim While updating my smart phone, said intelligent device offered to sync my favorite music. Along with obscure dark wave, stoner/doom and The Sound [...] Samantha Anne Carrillo \ Dec 05, 2013 Read More The Angel Babies’ “Tone Deaf” video still (Calida Salazar)
Dark Sweets For High Desert Winter: A Festive Holiday Party Mixtape A Festive Mixtape For Holiday Parties I consider myself a bit of an internet archaeologist. One of my favorite music blogs, holywarbles.blogspot.com, disappeared in a Digital Millenium Copyright Act [...] Samantha Anne Carrillo \ Dec 05, 2013 Read More (Compfight cc via GB_1984)
Four Up: Classical, Hip-Hop, Metal And Ambient Shouldn’t-Misses Nuevo Mexicano Romantic I know Levi Romero more as a prof than a poet—I studied New Mexico lit with him at UNM—but I’ve heard him read [...] Alibi \ Nov 28, 2013 Read More
Sonic Reducer: Micro Reviews Of Goitia Deitz, Cate Le Bon And L.i.e.s. Comp Before I fell (hard) for mysterious Brooklyn duo Goitia Deitz, it was rare for me to experience that butterflies-in-my-stomach prerelease exquisite agony. Ever [...] Alibi \ Nov 28, 2013 Read More
Grace Before Meat: Tracks In The Key Of Gratitude Tracks In The Key Of Gratitude Let’s talk turkey: Most Thanksgiving playlists celebrate pre- and post-prandial bliss, but the concept of thankfulness itself often gets short shrift. I adore [...] Samantha Anne Carrillo \ Nov 28, 2013 Read More (Compfight cc via aussiegall)
Doom Service And Honeybees’ Psych Tenor Doom Service Japanese doom metal foursome Church of Misery prefers that the adjectival form of “stoner” not be used to describe their sound. Personally, I’m [...] Samantha Anne Carrillo \ Nov 21, 2013 Read More
Last Month In Music: October 2013 Last month, on Oct. 4, I took a road trip north, with Marisa Demarco of Bigawatt and my girlfriend Mauro, to attend a [...] Mike Smith \ Nov 21, 2013 Read More Teenage Werewolves (Sam West Photography)
Sonic Reducer: Micro Reviews Of Overdue, Small Sound And R F △ I I T V Twentysomething Indiana native and former ethnomusicology student Haley Fohr launched Circuit des Yeux in 2008. Her latest release, Overdue, is a breathtaking slice [...] M. Brianna Stallings \ Nov 14, 2013 Read More
