Skip to main content

Posts

Featured

Cassette Review // Ben Brown & Stefan Christoff "In Duet" (New Motion)

  https://newmotion.bandcamp.com/album/in-duet Isolated piano keys and the sounds of everything crashing down around them begin this cassette.  There is a scraping, but it's almost like a scratching and then it turns into a banging.   This very much feels like someone just playing this beautiful classical song while the entire world falls apart around them.   The piano notes get higher as the percussion begins rolling.   This sound feels like an awakening.   The percussion feels like sticks breaking now but it takes on a rhythm which feels like it has become hypnotic. The way that these notes come through it can sound as if they are singing.  Such a distinct pattern, as if to tell the story of the chaos surrounding it.   This is the sound I want people to hear when they think instrumental music is borning and when they think that a sound has to be "metal" or "hardcore" to take on the feeling of destruction.  ...

Latest Posts

Music Review // Joe Bonamassa "B.B. King's Blues Summit 100"

Music Review // The Home Current "A Point Blank Dream" (Subexotic Records)

Music Review // GorpoPap "Reach 4 The Stars"

Music Review // Six Going On Seven "Human Tears" (Spartan Records)

Music Review // Keep Shelly in Athens "V"

It Was A Mild Winter, Until It Wasn't (January 2026, Connecticut Music)

Music Review // Leisure Hour "...and to think" (Counter Intuitive Records)

January 2026 Mixtape (Otto Benson, SUNDL, ALPHAWHORE, Elliott Sharp, WaSaBi Trio, Negative Bias, Mirabelle Skipworth, Nina Garbus, Status/Non-Status & more!)

Music Review // Northcote "Alternate Universe"

Cassette Review // Max Moon "The Grand Howl" (Hand'Solo Records)