August 2022

  • This week’s favourites: Brown Calvin – d i m e n s i o n // p e r s p e c t i v e (AKP Recordings) Cape Canaveral – The Observatory (Machine Records) Rachika Nayar – Heaven Come Crashing (NNA Tapes) THLTTLDBB – SeeUSearching (Somewherecold Records) Vagantpoesi – Onomatopoeia (Shimmering Moods) Plus…

  • Multimedia artist Mike Hansen was a turntablist before he’d ever heard of turntablism. Now a successful painter and music producer, Hansen has released a collection of recordings inspired by the color field works of Leon Berkowitz and Thomas Downing.

  • Promising more than 200 concerts, the POP Montreal festival is back after a COVID hiatus. It runs Sept. 28 to Oct. 2. in multiple venues. “The notion of ‘going back to normal’ isn’t really POP Montreal’s jam,” reads a press release from event organizers. “We will forever be moving forward, doing our best to care…

  • We’re getting a new Cindytalk album on Oct. 21, via the False Walls label. Subterminal is a solo Cinder effort, featuring four new pieces. The Glasgow project dates back to the post-punk era of the early 1980s. Over the years, it has been both a band and solo project. Cinder’s progression – from new wave…

  • Contemporary music from everywhere.

  • Stefan Betke says his new Pole LP is “a natural development to the last album. One which goes further and is even more complex.” Tempus, his follow-up to 2020’s Fading, lands Nov. 18 on Mute. The album’s title is a Latin word that means time. It has a more specific definition in Finnish, Swedish and…