Cloudspeakers

Sigh.Let me say, straight off, that if you like brilliant musicianship for it’s own sake, you should listen to this album. Because that aspect is insane. Seriously. But after the brilliant-if-defin... Lees meer

Armonico Hewa takes the excellence of 2006’s already phenomenal Taiga and refines it to the point where it seems like the band’s music is trying less to be music than it is to be Dilaud... Lees meer

I dunno if I’m entirely on board with the press release calling these tracks “sacred soundscapes,” but there’s a lot of subtle stuff going on here, intentionally or unintent... Lees meer

Lodged between fanfares and fantasy, there’s something more refined about version 2.0 of Shogun Kunitoki. Their first album wore its Commodore 64-referencing band title like a metaphor; each track ... Lees meer

Do we need a new dada? The answer this album poses is a resounding “maybe.” The music of Jono El Grande falls somewhere in the overlap of a Venn Diagram that includes Magma and the kind of semi-orc... Lees meer

After starting a fire under metal’s ass, plumbing the depths of the ocean, and scaling the heights of a mountain Mastodon are now…sputtering, gurgling, and heaving, sitting around thei... Lees meer

“Audio Hydraulic” makes a mockery of a lot of fusion from the 1970s, and I don’t even care to qualify that. StÃ¥le Storløkken and Thomas Strø... Lees meer