Proto Droids – Sequential Dreams
[woe, 2021] Proto Droids is the side project for Correlations’ main synthesist, Neil Hale. If you haven’t yet heard of him, I highly suggest picking up any of the releases…
BUNKR – Graveyard Orbit
[VLSI Records Ltd., 2021] BUNKR is James Dean, a producer in Brighton, UK and co-founder of Cookshop. He’s previously recorded under the moniker, Lost Idol, and has released a couple…
Leah Kardos – Bird Rib
[bigo & twigetti 2020] I’m admittedly a bit late to the game with Leah Kardos. This is the first release I’ve had the pleasure to hear from her, and it…
Patrick R. Pärk – Sports Themes for Psychonauts
[Ethereal Mother Tapes, 2021] Patrick R. Pärk’s newest release, Sports Themes for Psychonauts, is a self-described alternate theme for the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics. But this isn’t some background noise…
Kl(aüs) – Kl(aüs)
[Castles in Space, 2016] Kl(aüs) is a project from Australian friends Stewart Lawler and Jonathan Elliott. I’ve just recently stumbled onto this group’s debut album, and took to this album…
Negative Response – Submersion Therapy
[Negative Products, 2021] Negative Response, the minimal synth group which began in 1980, is back with its first new material since 1983. And it’s quite an achievement! The nine tracks…
John Carpenter – Lost Themes III: Alive After Death
[Sacred Bones, 2021] If you love John Carpenter’s past work as much as I do, you’ll already be aware of this album. If you are new to John Carpenter (dear…
Imaginary Softwoods – Annual Flowers in Color
[Mineral Disc, 2020] As a fan of late 2000s/early 2010s ambient/electronic group Emeralds, I was somewhat familiar with John Elliott’s work in Outer Space. Somewhere in the aftermath of Emerald’s…
Protomartyr – Ultimate Success Today
[Domino, 2020] Protomartyr is back with another blistering take on the current political climate, our failures as a species, and our dreary future. This feels intensely apt in the age…
Leif – Loom Dream
[Whities, 2019] Found sounds, droney backdrops, natural elements, ethereal woodwinds, and sequenced chimes. Leif Knowles creates a feeling of pastoral mystery—the feeling you get when dusk hits, the fireflies come…
Kate NV – Room for the Moon
[RVNG Intl., 2020] Russian musician Kate NV’s new album, Room for the Moon, expands on the minimalist synth pop from 2018’s для FOR. As with that album, analog synths garble,…
Tokyo Shoegazer – Crystallize
[299 Japan Records, 2011] This long lost gem of shoegaze has finally gotten the vinyl release it so much deserved by Light in the Attic. The music here is quintessential…
Kosmischer Läufer – The Secret Cosmic Music of the East German Olympic Program 1972-83, Volume 4
[Unknown Capability Recordings, 2018] The fourth installment of the, supposedly, lost secret music of Martin Zeichnete, written to provide the East German olympic team music to train to, is once…
Polypores – Flora
[Castles in Space, 2019] With Flora, created under the moniker Polypores, Stephen James Buckley crafts beautiful ambient electronic, surrounded by field recordings of bubbling springs, rustling trees, and bird chirps.…
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