
I got to see Chrome last night at The Redwood downtown. Well, I saw Helios Creed playing Chrome songs...Damon died like fifteen years ago and I'm pretty sure the other guys were hired guns: Aleph on drums, Lux on bass, and the keyboard player who I see all over town who kind of looks like Eddie Izzard. I'm going to go ahead an say it was Chrome. Maybe you fuckers who saw the band in its early incarnation can really say you saw Chrome, but going to shows is a lot like playing baseball. What? Yeah, I said [...]
Skyramps - Dripping Water Hollows Out of Stone Bizarrement, au moment où j'écris ces lignes je reçois un mail dont le titre commence par "AIR FRANCE MUSIC". C'est bien une de ces coïncidences à la con car ce morceau me fait très précisément penser à un voyage en avion, du décollage à l'atterrissage, en passant par le moment où vous passez au-dessus de la couverture nuageuse... Les 9 minutes 30 de "Dripping Water Hollows Out of Stone" sont extraites de Days of Thunder , le premier album de Skyramps . Le groupe est composé [...]

How do I even begin to measure how much ass Emerald's Mark McGuire kicked this year? Working under several different project names including Sun Watcher, Skyramps, and Peoples Parties, Mark quietly conquered the ambient underground in 2009. To combat sleeplessness, tour schedules, and boredom, he filled his four-track with buoyant, rhythmic meditations for guitar and tape with a deeply submerged pop sensibility. While varied stylistically, the handful of releases he put out this year are all anchored around his fluid and intuitive sense of song structure. If I had to pick one release that most accurately [...]
Skyramps - Sky Ramping Bliss drone in hyper colour from Emeralds' Mark McGuire and Daniel Lopatin of Oneohtrix Point Never. It splits time between pixel space laments and dawn pastoralia with Lopatin's synth wizardy working on the same odometre as McGuire's layers and layers of rhythmic arpeggian chord progressions, technically way masterful and more obliquely focused on seeing everything made out of blocks/large bland forms, isometric angles, mild earthen beauty and cosmic daydreams. [Buy Days Of Thunder from Wagon ]