MP3 : Nicholas Szczepanik - Again, Falling Now, here's a newcomer in the "hauntological" way. Drone/ambient artist Nicholas Szczepanik has a twist in his approach, and turned The Caretaker's hazy nostalgics for inspiration. Out on WEME Records . "Like we say, there's an undeniable conceptual allegiance with The Caretaker's foisty shellac ambience and introverted loop spirals, but like Indignant Senility's compelling 'Consecration Of The Whipstain', the magic herein lies with Nicholas' ability to breathe extra life into the samples, foregrounding their rich melodic nuance and tactile textures against a murky, lowlit background [...]
Legions of LMYE loves & a raft of new discoveries populate this gargantuan new 3-volume ( Ice , Water & Snow ) Escala comp - all the way from Le Berger 's characteristically enthralling, swelling Naine bleue-blanche de type B to Kenneth Kirschner 's oblique, unadorned November 18, 2011 via the textured scale of [...]
Nicholas Szczepanik – "Please Stop Loving Me" I was looking at NPR's surprisingly wonderful The Best Outer Sounds Albums of 2011 list (in which one of my favorite records of 2011, Julia Holter's Tragedy placed 4th), and gave a listen to their #1 pick, Nicholas Szczepanik's one-song album Please Stop Loving Me . Clocking in at 47:33, I was nearly sent into a existential crisis after listening to the whole thing. One of the most beautiful and overwhelming pieces [...]
The grand intensities of Nicholas Szczepanik 's symphonic drones seem to demand an equally grand critical response. This is about as far from that as imaginable - but his roaring, brink-of-unravelling epic Years Compressed into Minutes Without Any Concept of Self - a "t rack I recorded in 2010 for an as-of-yet to be released compilation on Experimedia" - is too arresting, too masterful & too ravishing not to at least acknowledge as a Track of the Day. [...]
Pelican Three cheers for the weekend! Lot's of great acts will descend on our many rad venues including Twin Shadow at Lincoln Hall , Pelican at The Empty Bottle and much more. Snap yo fingers and let's get to it. FRIDAY THE LUCK OF EDEN HALL Chicago psych rockers The Luck of Eden Hall have been banging around [...]
Nicholas Szczepanik - Part 2: Forgive To Forget Nicholas Szczepanik has got his shit together. Just last year, he released The Chiasmus , which made it onto my Top 10 Drone Albums list of 2009. He also runs the infallible SRA label. And now he's already got another disc of intimate brilliance called Dear Dad out on both Goat Eater Arts and [...]
Late last year I came upon an album entitled The Chiasmus, on the SRA label. Knowing nothing about the artist, it would have been easy to mistake him for an established musician, so accomplished were it its huge drone-based soundscapes - but it was in fact the impressive debut release from the young musician Nicholas [...]
I wasn't going to do a Top 10 list this year. I figured my Top 1 list was sufficient because that was so clearly the one thing that made such a life changing impact on me. But then the fine folks of Weirdo Records asked me to make a Top 10 for them. I couldn't turn them down, obviously, and it was an excuse to do something that I really wanted to do all along. I love making lists. And people love reading them. I don't know why I withheld from something that everyone so clearly [...]
It is the time of year when everyone (myself included, sadly) is thinking about making lists of their favourite records of 2009. Actually, about half of the music websites did theirs in November. I just don't understand that at all. I have absolutely no confidence whatsoever that I've heard more than a tiny percentage of [...]
Nicholas Szczepanik - The Silhouettes Of A Winter's Sunset Pretty sure this is the year of the drone. Or maybe it's just me. But I can't remember the last time there were this many mind blowing drone records in a single year (Mountains, Golden Sores , etc). Now we can add Nicholas Szczepanik's debut full length to the list. The Chiasmus is fucking enormous . Super spacious drone, tons of [...]
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