All Tiny Creatures
The four pieces that comprise All Tiny Creature's debut EP, Segni, unequivocally reflect two ideas: First, there’s an understanding of and appreciation for theory, whether that means simple chords and the complex changes between them or computer programs and the various microphones that feed
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Bear In Heaven
Earlier this year, Old Georgia friends Hometapes and Bear In Heaven started talking about the future. It was winter, Hometapes was hiding in the mountains somewhere, and a link to a new record showed up in their email box. After sneaking into a ski instructor's lodge just to download and hear it,
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The first manifestation of Bear In Heaven's Beast Rest Forth Mouth, the Wholehearted Mess 12" EP is pressed in jewel-like multicolored vinyl. Bear In Heaven curated remixes of the single "Wholehearted Mess" from Pink Skull, Max Brannslokker, and Arclike, resulting in the creation of a unique
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Bear in Heaven have trapped echos, tremors, winds, and fading light. They've redefined time, and folded it. They've unbuttoned sound, and realigned it. Within four walls in Brooklyn, Jon Philpot, Adam Wills, Sadek Bazaara, and Joe Stickney mined the democracy of their collaboration, plus the
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Brad Laner
"I wanted to shamelessly utilize all of the different skills that I've built up over a lifetime of musical experiences," recently wrote Brad Laner about his new album, and his first under his own name, "Neighbor Singing". We'll take that - and we'll raise you twelve tracks of mind-massaging
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CYNE
CYNE (Cultivating Your New Experience) formed in the summer of 2001, in the swamps of Gainesville, Florida. CYNE is: emcees Akin and Cise Star, and producers Speck and Enoch -- four distinct people, with the common goal of creating sincere and honest music.
Their often politically-charged, ....
As turntable styluses are just beginning to cool down from last year's highly-antcipated, highly-lauded "Pretty Dark Things," CYNE is back with a new collection of tracks that provides both a window into their creative evolution and a summer's worth of classic jams (not to mention what many are
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Feathers
Feathers has finally arrived on the scene with Absolute Noon, part 1 of a 3 EP series. The boys have created an absolutely lush introduction to their frame of mind, taking us all on a majestic journey through the rivers of melody and counterpoint, across the bleak mountaintops of minimal serialism,
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For the second installment of their three EP series, and the follow up to Absolute Noon, the Feathers boys (Eddie, Matt, and Eric) worked in their Miami studio (Comic Wow) and fleshed out the beginnings of what would eventually become Synchromy. They then packed up and went to Chicago again to
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Megafaun
This is the Summer of Megafaun. Their highly-anticipated second album, Gather, Form & Fly, is a monument to a band that hundreds have experienced on stages, under trees, in galleries, on floors, in headphones, and through radios-with-the-windows-down over the past three years. All the hints
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Nick Butcher
Do you remember those delightful films they used to show on PBS when you were little? The ones shot on grainy flickering film, which were poorly transferred to ancient video tape, and told the story of why the sun rises or something like that with swirling stop-motion animated clay and sand. Can
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"Bee Removal" is Nick Butcher's newest exploration of sound and vision. The followup to "The Complicated Bicycle" (his first album, critically praised and packaged in a handmade, hand-printed book by Nick himself), this new LP turns found instrumentation - radio, guitar, air organ, tape players,
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Pattern Is Movement
Andrew Thiboldeaux and Chris Ward embody Pattern is Movement and the music that's been a long time building, rising out of the ether of evangelical childhoods, best friendship, and life in Philadelphia. The two met at the ages of 13 and 14 --- as part of a Christian hip hop group. Raised in strict
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Pattern Is Movement / Scott Solter
For Canonic, Pattern is Movement handed over everything about themselves to a man named Scott Solter. He recorded their last record, Stowaway, in 2005 at San Francisco studios Tiny Telephone (John Vanderslice's place) and his own 15th St. Scott has worked as an engineer and producer with the likes
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Paul Duncan
Ah, the record that started it all. The summer of 2001, Sara and I returned home from our band's summer tour to have Paul play us some of his new songs. "Hey, I did these while you were gone...tell me what you think." Having taken a number of sound design courses and working with Paul for a
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At age 26 and in the flurry of NYC, Paul has created Be Careful What You Call Home. A mental score. A geographical response. The architecture of this record belongs almost anywhere, but it found itself at the source: “I began by wanting to hear and experience things that might take me out of a
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Above The Trees breaks rank from its two predecessors both in impetus and craftsmanship. The album, which was written in a short three months and recorded in an even shorter week, was born from the ether of experience and beauty that finds its way through the dark. 'Above...' drifts ashore as a
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Shedding
Part 2 of the "what started it all" series...Connor Bell (Shedding) became a friend of ours a while back through that magical place we know as "the internet." I knew of him through his other musical project at the time, the band Parlour. What I learned about him was his supreme knowledge of
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An absolutely bewitching album....
and something best explained by the man himself:
As a child, my family would make periodic journeys from Wisconsin to my grandparents' home in Louisville, Kentucky. There, my grandfather had a wealth of bird houses and feeders set up in the back yard. On ....
Slaraffenland
Slaraffenland.
Say it.
Sluh-raf'-in-luhnd.
Say it.
Sluh-raf'-in-luhnd.
Private Cinema is one of those records that just screams “album.” There are one million and one ideas pouring out of every nook and cranny. Little drops of sunshine pelt you in the face until a summer thunderstorm sneaks up from behind ....
First incarnated as a limited edition tour-only EP from their recent Spring 2008 US tour with Efterklang, “Sunshine” is now a complete five-track masterpiece that captures Slaraffenland’s evolving sound and provides a true preview of their upcoming 2009 album. It features two covers - Radiohead’s
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Slaraffenland's "Meet and Greet" single is a sneak peek at their new album, We're On Your Side, and features exclusive B-side track "My Bad Ways" (from the album-recording session), colored vinyl in a heavy PVC sleeve, and art by Cody Hudson/Struggle Inc. This jewel will whet appetites for the new
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"We have waited a while...still it'll take us some time" begins "Meet and Greet." Vocal harmonies ring out to the pulsing beat of a delayed floor tom. A guitar wakes up the reeds. The subtle organic percussion of handclaps punctuates the amplified air, the music becoming a distinct human synthesis.
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Stars Like Fleas
“The Ken Burns Effect,” is an iconoclastic but more immediate, organic and lush album than its predecessor: 2003's "Sun lights down on the fence". When Fleas-fan, the composer Nico Muhly (arranger to Björk, Grizzly Bear, and Antony & The Johnsons) helped pass along early recordings drafts
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The Caribbean
The creation and production of all records by the Caribbean are tortured affairs. Mixing 2003's History's First Know-It-All, for instance, nearly caused profound hearing loss and nervous hypoxia. Nothing, however, prepared the men in the Caribbean (Michael Kentoff, Matthew Byars, Tony Dennison &
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Following up their acclaimed William of Orange EP, experimental rock band The Caribbean will release its third album, Plastic Explosives, on September 20 on Miami’s Hometapes label. Plastic Explosives contains 12 songs and a half-dozen interludes. It was produced by Beauty Pill’s Chad Clark (who
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“I took to Wayne Lee cuz we both loved the Who. His father was a Jehovah’s Witness. One day he said, ‘Hey man, do you believe in dinosaurs?’ And I didn’t have the heart to tell him I believed in dinosaurs not God.” [DO YOU BELIEVE IN DINOSAURS?]
The songs of The Caribbean are not generally ....