Issue 25 – April 2010
Far from quivering anxiously in the corner, the 25th issue of Cyclic Defrost celebrates the…
Author Alexandra Savvides
Patrick Watson at The Famous Spiegeltent, 10/01/10
The Famous Spiegeltent evokes a certain type of mystique that does a lot to preface…
Cover designer interview with Heath Killen by Alexandra Savvides
There’s a curious presence at work in this issue’s cover of Cyclic Defrost. Freelance graphic…
Cyclic Selects – Tim Ritchie
Tim Ritchie was a school boy when Double Jay started (the early, AM band version…
Issue 24 – December 2009
This issue of Cyclic Defrost balances on the cusp of the big time. Heath Killen,…
Oceanic Emissions: Swoop Swoop interview by Alexandra Savvides
There’s a quote floating around the internet that paints Swoop Swoop (formerly known as Streaky…
10:32 – Vanitas EP (Ghostly International)
There’s undoubtedly much trepidation in a name change, and for Adelaide-based producer Tim Koch, the…
In Search of the Sydney Underground feature by Alexandra Savvides
As we trundle ever further into an age where musicians, consumers, and the industry are…
Cover designers – We Buy Your Kids interview by Alexandra Savvides
Cover designers: We Buy Your Kids By Alexandra Savvides Looking at the art work created…
Mountains – Choral (Thrill Jockey)
For their third album proper (but first for Thrill Jockey), Mountains build upon a palette…
Sleeps In Oysters – We Kept The Memories Locked Away Like Beetles of our Childhood… (Seed Records)
John Harries and Lisa Busby, a boy from Reading and a girl from Paisley, are…
School of Seven Bells – Alpinisms (Speak N Spell/Inertia)
After a somewhat mysterious introduction to the sound of New York trio School of Seven…
Max Tundra – Parallax Error Beheads You (Domino)
Overt frivolity is not really common in the context of ‘serious’ music. Yet, it is…
Children of the Wave interview by Alexandra Savvides
The transcendental essence of Children of the Wave’s debut record Carapace does little to prepare…
Children of the Wave – Carapace (Sensory Projects/Inertia)
This music has space in it, around it, beyond its borders. It’s about traces and…