Electronic

  • TMRPOE – Keep Sleeping

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    Japanese electronic music and sound artist Kee Yawne’s debut recording landed earlier this month. It’s a consistently strong effort. The eight pieces featured point to a level of compositional maturity seldom found on first-time recordings. Yawne’s release is filed under TMRPOE (an acronym for “the most remote place on earth”). Keep Sleeping is suitably titled…

  • Future Astronauts – Vessels V

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    Whatever you’re planning to add to your music collection next, put it on hold. The new Future Astronauts compilation, Vessels V, is the best thing going right now. Bar none. This fifth album in the U.K. label’s series of lo-fi ambient comps boasts 15 tracks, every one of them a stunner. I emailed Future Astronauts’…

  • A Dip in the Elevator Bath

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    Austin, Texas has long had a world-class music scene, the sort more often associated with global centres than with cities home to fewer than a million souls. While it may be best known for country and other roots-based music, there’s a good deal more under the surface. Colin Andrew Sheffield, chief proprietor of the Elevator…

  • anthéne – shifting lands

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      Polar Seas Recordings has two handsome cassette/download releases out June 2: the aforementioned Echoic Architecture by Endurance and this new one from Brad Deschamps. Those who follow the label will recognize Deschamps as the label’s curator and as half of North Atlantic Drift. This iridescent beauty is his eighth release under the anthéne name.…

  • Endurance – Echoic Architecture

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      A third of the way into Joshua Stefane’s new 60-minute recording under the name Endurance, it appears certain we’re in for a purely minimalist tour of his favourite drone sounds. This is by no means a criticism. The globetrotting Canadian researcher and translator who now calls Nara, Japan home can be fairly credited with…

  • Endless Melancholy – The Vacation

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      Oleksiy Sakevych has produced another winner. The Vacation is his fifth full-length disc under the Endless Melancholy brand. It is this month’s must-listen. After the success of 2015’s Her Name In A Language Of Stars, expectations have ridden pretty high ahead of this new release. Despite the Kiev-based artist’s self-deprecating insistence that he’s been…