‘Ambient’ Archives
SALEM – “Asia”
Overlapping images in Photoshop or ACTUAL GHOSTS? You be the judge. If anyone had ever said that club hip-hop, liturgical material, and doom music would be merged together successfully through electronic means they would have received some odd looks, nods of obligatory acceptance, and casual avoidance from other musicians. However, Salem said nothing and just did it. Surprise, it's really [...]
thisquietarmy & Scott Cortez – Meridians LP
Score: 6.9 / 10 Release Date: June 15th, 2010 Label: Three:Four Records MySpace If you buy the MeridiansLP looking for a new thisquietarmy release, prepare for disappointment. Barely clocking in at 30 minutes total, the album consists of two tracks of fairly subtle ambient drone, especially when compared to thisquietarmy’s solo output. It’s better to treat the album as more of a [...]
Tonight in Music: Big Spiders Back, Toad the Wet Sprocket with Hey Marseilles
Tonight's choices are simple. If you want electronic and cheap, go to the Sunset Tavern. If you have more discretionary income, and you liked 90's rock, go to the Paramount. Details below. Big Spider's Back, Wow and Flutter, The Harvey Girls, and Pure Moods @ The Sunset Tavern | 7/29 | 9pm | $6 | 21+ If you haven't heard Big Spider's Back, think space exploration with a twist of [...]
Wildbirds & Peacedrums – Rivers
Score: 7/10 Release Date: August 24th, 2010 Label: The Control Group MySpace In popular music, tropes recycle themselves extending past simple musical choices to group size, format, name, inter-band relationships and even geographic location. The Beatles standardized the stereotypical four piece. Peter, Paul, and Mary were arranged and visually represented to reach a biblically inclined [...]
Red Sparowes hit the road with Boris
Red Sparowes have just announced that they will be touring North America with the inimitable Japanese group Boris this August. They have also released the preliminary info for a European tour this fall. Red Sparowes began as something of a supergroup/sideproject in 2003, featuring members or Isis, Halifax Pier, Angel Hair, Neurosis, and others. Their 2005 debut At the Soundless Dawn made [...]
Break Time with SSG: A Journey Through Arms and Sleepers
Arms and Sleepers (AAS) are an ambient electronic duo from Boston, Massachusetts. Over the years, they have released several highly acclaimed EPs and LPs, starting with the Bliss Was It In That Dawn To Be Alive EP from 2006, and Black Paris 86 released in 2007. Their's is the type of music that one will listen to, bond with, and never be able to give up. Soothing textures, romantic, airy [...]
The Ascent of Everest Announce Tour Dates
The Ascent of Everest are gearing up to hit the road for an East Coast tour in support of their excellent new record. From this Vantage was released on June 1st and you can order your copy here. The Ascent of Everest are an 8-piece orchestral experimental rock based in Nashville, TN. Our Darling Nikki recently interviewed guitarist and vocalist Devin Lamp, as well as played some tracks from [...]
Baths – Cerulean
Score: 8.2/10 Release Date: July 6, 2010 Label: Anticon Myspace The word Cerulean can be applied to a range of blue colors, even flirting with bluish-greens. It is encompassing and broad. While the exact reasons that 21 year-old Will Wiesenfeld aka Baths had for choosing the name Cerulean for his first album (as Baths) are unknown, it seems an appropriately specific yet broad [...]
Download the New “Cassettes Won’t Listen” Mix, ft Animal Collective and Cannibal Ox!
What XL8R has hailed as perhaps a "hipster's wet dream" -- Brooklyn's Cassettes Won't Listen (aka Jason Drake) has remixed two wildly different musical projects into one album seemlessly, and (surprisingly) has done so in a way that doesn't totally suck. He has combined Animal Collective and the hip-hop duo Cannibal Ox. Sometimes artistic conception trumps product in the mixtape milieu, but not [...]
Album Review: Diskjokke – En Fin Tid
Score: 8/10 Release Date: 06/22/2010 Label: Smalltown Supersound Artist Website Electronic dance music in the U.S spends a great deal of its time staggering,engaging in drunken affairs with hip-hop and rock aesthetics. A great time for sure but it never seems to sit back to enjoy a summer breeze. Dim Mak records revels in the noisy variations produced from singular ideas, birthing a sneering [...]
