Review: Serial Experiments Jane [Eksie Kitchin] – ‘Alice Onscreen’ (experimental/ambient)

It's been a bit of a while since we've done a review. So let's take care of that with something out of the obscure. Our favorite type of submissions are those without context; those which force us into listening to the music itself and thereby allowing us to inspire our imagination. So with that, we...

Review: Caldon Glover – ‘Death Mycelium’ (dark ambient)

Dark ambient/drone fans prepare yourselves for a journey both sonically and emotionally subterranean as US-based artist Caldon Glover takes us through his new album, Death Mycelium. Caldon gives us five tracks within length of eight minutes, thirty seconds to fourteen minutes, thirty seconds. Now…I used the word “subterranean” before I even read the description for...

Review: DAY BEFORE US – “As My Spirit Wanders Free” (dark ambient)

We travel to France now for a highly intriguing release, As My Spirit Wanders Free by the virtually unclassifiable and obscure act, Day Before Us.  I use the words “intriguing” and “unclassifiable” as Day Before Us is, in some ways, a very complex or diverse act.  And that is not common place in dark ambient...

Review: CEMENTATION ANXIETY – “Liminal Instability” (dark ambient)

Coming to us from New Jersey, USA is the dark ambient project of Kyle Nelson called CEMENTATION ANXIETY and his album, Liminal Instability. Now, let's first get out of the way what I don't like about this album. The physical edition, a cassette, is sold out. Hopefully it gets reprinted and perhaps easier to find...

Review: RASMUS WEIRUP – “I Bet You Never Had A Friday Night Like This” (experimental/ambient/electronic)

Coming to us from Copenhagen, Denmark is a singer/songwriter who uniquely describes his music as "The Greenwich Village folk scene of 1967 treated with a coffee grinder and broadcasted through the echoing ground system of an abandoned shopping mall." Now if that's not the most original description, I don't know what is. Anyway, Rasmus Weirup...