Dan Svizeny's Cough Cool project sneaks up on you. The songs take on a congealed, half-awake quality that'd be easy to write off as nostalgia, but what Svizeny has done is create an album that ... read more
Last night, Canadian ambient composer Tim Hecker opened up for Sigur Rós at Madison Square Garden. This is not a normal-sized venue for Hecker, but it illustrates the similarities between the heavy drift of his ... read more
Bathetic is a label that specializes in worn, ambient, dusty, moody lo-fi. Most of it comes out on cassette, though they release vinyl as well, and all of it feels homemade and honest. Because of ... read more
On her latest effort, Angel Olsen delivers a quaint and simple set of contemporary folk tunes with a few alt-country detours. Though the sounds are pretty familiar, it's her wonderfully bold voice that brings it all together. WATCH THE REVIEW
Heartbreaking cover/ home recording of Richard & Linda Thompson 's " Withered and Died ," by Marissa Nadler and Angel Olsen (whose stunning Half Way Home has grown into one our favorite releases of 2012). Thanks to WTD for the heads up:
This week we had the pleasure of meeting up with the lovely singer Angel Olsen for a soothing session at our favorite local vintage shop, Grand Street Bakery. She sat calmly on her amp while performing ... read more
Electronic music in 2012 is becoming this movement of textures, drones, and low-end bass compositions that, for the most part, do not reflect its climate the last few years. Tim Hecker is more prominent. Andy Stott is now more accessible ... Continue reading
Angelo Harmsworth’s last release, Untitled, had this cover that was basically just different shades of orange with what looked like etchings of white sticks on top of it. It felt like it was designed to ... read more
It turns out that one thing that white dudes in their late 20s like myself have in common is a deep understanding of Bill Murray. Ghostbusters, and more specifically, Murray's character in the movie, Peter ... read more
Padang Food Tigers have made a set of songs that work as a sort of experience, more than any kind of cohesive statement. Guitars drone loosely over gorgeous piano, there are field sounds. It's plaintive ... read more
Anders Hana - Dead Clubbing (Drip Machine Records, 2011) Anders Hana is the "Ha" in MoHa! and Dead Clubbing , his single-sided debut LP is, well, it's gorgeous--perfect even. Six intense and gritty machinations, each with perilously gridlocked percussion set in looped [...]
When I first moved to New York, I came with just my clothes and a few books. I left all my CDs and records at home. Ripping what I could, figuring anything I left behind ... read more
King Dude - "Big Blue Eyes" MP3/download While few seem to be paying attention, there's some truly inspiring folk-based music floating in the nether regions of the small-run universe, with groups like King Dude, Mason Lindhal, Kurt Vile and Terrors/Lolly Gesserit and ... ... Continue reading
Pleasantly minimal video from Cough Cool 's next release Lately out on Bathetic . Ghoulish, haunting vocals and woolly distortion make me wish this record came out earlier in the year to contend for our upcoming favorites list.
(Bathetic Records, 2011) If you're into ghosts, ghosting, dim lights, dim lamps, dim sunsets, general dimness; if you're into groggy hums, low humming, low flying birds flying upside-down and in reverse; if you're into extraterrestrial fog, extraterrestrial miasmas, extraterrestrial ghosts and ghosting, extraterrestrial ghost viscera hanging in the air, extraterrestrials; if you're into mottled surfaces: concrete, bird-wings, degraded metals, worn/faded cotton; if you like it when it's mid-afternoon and a slow moving darkness propagated by a hulking mass of clouds terminates your afternoon and sucks you into the loose-quilted fabrics of your favourite grandmotherly-stitched quilt, watching David Lynch [...]
Cough Cool // “Plastic Jewelry” I am always in the mood to hear some new Cough Cool jams from Dan Svizeny and company. And now that I think of it, these Philly dudes really don’t get as much credit as I think they deserve. Not only does it seem like they are always in a state of creation, but everything they share is worth listening to. If you need proof check out their excellent Clausen cassette that they released earlier this year on Bathetic . (it’s definitely [...]
Faceplant — Ride the Ether (excerpt) Bathetic ’s latest drop is a split 12” between Bitchin Bajas and Faceplant, who, as you can tell by that potent album art, specialize in similarly zonked-out brands of psych music. While Bajas ( CAVE ’s Cooper Crain) embarks on a free-floating synth drift with tracks like “Consciousness 1” , Faceplant’s Aaron Coyes (better known as 1/2 of dub-pop powerhouse Peaking Lights ) stays grounded with a mix of minimal drum work and [...]
William Cody Watson — Retractable Claws William Cody Watson may have laid his Pink Priest moniker to eternal rest, but don’t assume that he’s slowing down anytime soon; in addition to the Priest swan song Swallow Your Dreams forthcoming on La Station Radar , he’s readying three new tapes and a handful of collaborations with the likes of Sleep ∞ Over , Lee Noble , and Cough Cool . [...]
Derek Rogers — Everything is Pointless and Meaningless Per usual, there’s some pretty wonderful developments happening over at the Bathetic offices. The label just rolled out a pair of killer new tapes— Wild Safari ’s We Laid Our Heads In Their Laps (catch a snippet of that here ) and Derek Rogers ’ Relative Quiet . “Everything is Pointless and Meaningless” is pulled from the latter, and sees [...]
At long last, Ben and I have emerged from the depths of Finals-induced hell to bring some actual activity to this blog. Whether or not such collegiate woes are a valid excuse for our downtime (they probably aren’t), we’re now back to provide you with your required dose of music, snarkiness, and long, overwrought adjectives. Due to the enormous amount of submissions and releases that landed while we were out, I’ve gathered some favorite new jams into this all-encompassing catch-up post. To anyone we missed: we’re sorry. Mountains — Thousand Square [ mp3 ] [...]
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