Emika – Klavírní (Emika Records)
Really only a few years into what promises to be a long, exciting recording and…
Author Stephen Fruitman
Stephen Fruitman
Born and raised in Toronto, Stephen Fruitman has been living in northern Sweden lo these past thirty years. Writing and lecturing about art and culture as an historian of ideas since the early nineties, his articles have appeared in an number of international publications. He is also a contributing editor at Igloo Magazine.
Various Artists – Phra Rahu (gterma)
Body in Sweden and soul soaring over the Himalayas, the gterma label is a lotus…
Coppice Halifax – Static Pharming (Milieu Music)
Multi-aliased and -genred Brian Grainger planned to cut his latest swatch of themed dub ambient…
Daniel Kordik / Tobiáš Potočný – Indport (LOM/Intenda Foundation)
A new series of field recordings on the excellent Eastern European imprint LOM, inaugurated with…
Ghosts of Breslau – Drowned City (BDTA)
If Breslau is haunted, it must be by history. The German name for Wrocław, the…
Mark Vernon – Things That Were Missed in the Clamour for Calm (3Leaves)
Sri Lanka stripped bare by her suitor, Mark Vernon, during his six-week residency at the…
Radicalfashion – Garçon (Flau)
This is Kobe-based Hirohito Ihara´s second album, having debuted eight years ago with Odori. In…
Candie Hank – Demons (Shitkatapult)
Another talented nutball, and lord knows we need as many of them as we can…
System Morgue – Feu (Zhelezobeton)
Obviously the artist enjoys a good book, as Feu is said to be inspired by…
Stuart Chalmers – Imaginary Musicks Vol. 1 (Beartown) & Vol. 3/4 (Hairdryer Excommunication)
Imaginary Musicks in barely there editions on “no audience,” UK imprints. Volume 1 was released…
Esplendor Geometrico – Ultraphoon (Geometrik)
The piston-smooth stroke of Esplendor Geometrico is immediately attractive, an industrial steampunk Charlie Chaplin might…
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With an ineffable artist name and album title, you better have something big to say.…
Various Artists – 3 Years Comfortzone Crystalized (Comfortzone)
A fuck dance let´s art compilation, a finger nail dragged across the blackboard that scratches…
Various Artists – Universal Quantifier (Halcyon Records)
Halcyon Records hails late last year´s Universal Quantifier compilation as ”2014´s greatest album”. Couched in…
Sapphire Slows – Allegoria (Not Not Fun)
Home alone and playing machines that were surely exciting, shiny and state of the art…