Blog: Comfort Music

Menacing ambient today from The Black Dog. I love putting the words "menacing" and "ambient" next to each other. From the 2005 album Silenced. The Black Dog - Drexian City R.I.D.E. The Black Dog - Remote Viewing Recently on Comfort...

Interesting blend of weird techno, yummy global fusion, and other miscellaneous surprises on the 2-CD set For Films (Selected Tracks for Moving Pictures: edit 10). Kammerflimmer Kollektief, T. Raumschmiere, Hexstatic, Atom Heart and Daedelus turn up on this compilation, but...

You will know from the minute you first hear Piana's voice whether you are in the "love this voice" or "this voice makes me want to claw my eyeballs out with a shrimp fork" camp. You be the judge! The...

Yummy technojazz workout from Run_Return, on their 2005 release Metro-North. It sounds a little like a more electronica-soaked version of Tuatara, with hints of Jaga Jazzist as well. Run_Return - Aerospace Lanes Run_Return - Loge Blue Run_Return - Soothing Syrup...

Excellent glitch hop today from Tipper. Actually, according to the name of the album, it's Tip Hop. Wacky! Tipper - Tepid Bile Tipper - Paperthinreality Tipper - Flitch Recently on Comfort Radio: Kosma - Aeroboop (Megashira remix) John Zorn -...

The album My Rocky Mountains by Erik Sumo is an interesting mélange of influences thrown together in a pleasing downtempo blender. Often the best you can say about downtempo is "I barely noticed it was on" but Sumo doesn't hesitate...

Got to spend some quality time at Amoeba Records in San Francisco recently, and one of my happy finds in the used bin was the outstanding 2004 release We Are Not The Infadels, by a group who nevertheless call themselves...

Looking for some new Ratatat? Well, I haven't heard any recently, but this upcoming album, Tacoma Mockingbird by Eliot Lipp certainly slides right in and makes itself at home in that territory. Eliot Lipp - Rap Tight Eliot Lipp -...

Nishi continues to put out interesting netlabel releases, as the new Mental EP by K.D. Expression demonstrates. This EP is driving, haunting techno, a little goth even, and a bit of a departure from some of their more abstract releases,...

More weirdass microhouse today, this time from Forss versus Borg, whose Live Promo EP is a satisfying addition to my understanding of a fairly bizarre genre of electronic music. To borrow a phrase from Warren Ellis, "It's marvellous, and brings...

I don't know who this Judith Juillerat person is; according to the Inter-web, she is the winner of Björk's "Army of Me" remix contest, but does that tell you who she truly is as a person? No. But she sure...

Historically I've been kind of back-and-forth about Mogwai; they've always seemed to be doing interesting stuff, just not always the kind of stuff I've cared about. Their upcoming album, Mr Beast, is really, really nice, however. It's top notch, occasionally...

Some highlights today from a sometimes lovely, sometimes overly weird ambient/IDM compilation called Directions, released by the netlabel Electrotoxic. I really dig about half this compilation - which probably means some of you will vastly prefer the other half, but...

Funky modern soul comes to us today from hot UK singer Alice Russell (and by hot, I mean career hot, although she's certainly pretty and stuff). From her second album My Favourite Letters. Alice Russell - Humankind Alice Russell -...

Uh oh, I'm starting to like glitch! The sky is falling! From the album The Elements by Datach'i. Datach'i - Musket Iron Datach'i - In Silence Datach'i - Frayed Recently on Comfort Radio: Transglobal Underground - Scully DJ Rupture -...

How did I miss this release from last February? Is it because Mike Patton hates me? (Probably.) Brady turned me on to this funky little showdown between General Patton, maestro of weird, and The X-Ecutioners, whose severely cut-up hip hop...