"Terra Incognita"from the album Parallax2011iTunesIn Latin, terra incognita means "unknown land," but this song, the first single from Parallax (Nov. 8), the new album from Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox's Atlas Sound project, is familiar territory. It's based around a repeating acoustic guitar figure...

"Without irony or possibly even enjoyment, the members of Hexentanz offer a ceremonial soundtrack for the "primal rite awakening the dreamer in the flesh of the celebrant". "

_Nekrocrafte_ is an Agonia release sporting a grim, monochromatic cover image of the Horned One cum minions in all their bestial Christian mockery...

It’s hard to believe the amount of work that Brian Eno puts out annually. The man’s a machine. In the past year, he’s produced several albums, composed songs for films and recorded his own records. Thankfully, his latest effort does not suffer from this dizzying pace. On Drum Between the...

"Midnight City"from the album Hurry Up, We're Dreaming2011iTunesIt's been a long and fruitful journey for M83's Anthony Gonzalez. Started in the early '00s, the once-duo-but-now-solo project has been pumping out albums of top-tier electronic shoegaze for the better part of a decade. That...

I bought this album a while back on a whim.  I previewed about ten seconds from each track and was convinced it was a work of art worth having.  Then it stayed in a folder on my desktop for months--collecting binary dust.  I never got around to it.  Just goes...

  Guitarist Darryl Shepard (Hackman, Milligram) steps out on his own here, the second solo drone project under the name Blackwolfgoat. The results are in, and "Dronolith" is a forty minute, six song mini-epic long on the mood and which uses its minimal chords wisely. The line between hypnotic and...

"Safe in the Steep Cliffs"from the album Safe in the Steep Cliffs2010iTunesAt the age of 19, Emancipator self-released his first album, Soon It Will Be Cold Enough, in 2006. While his electronic, instrumental trip-hop did not receive much notice in his American homeland...

"Killin' the Vibe"from the album Ducktails III: Arcade Dynamics2011iTunesIt's really quite a shame that Ducktails has to be considered a side-project; surely there are others out there who would absolutely enjoy more production from Mathew Mondanile of Real Estate. Sure, he's got loads...

He’s been an indie kid, a Jewish rapper, a soft rocker, a record-breaking solo pianist, a soundtrack composer, a producer (of Feist, Jane Birkin and Jamie Lidell), and a member of a band of puppets. Yet somehow that’s just not enough for Jason Beck aka Chilly Gonzales...

"Hope & Ruin" is the forth album release by Canadian rockers The Trews. Based in Toronto, the band is made up of vocalist Colin MacDonald, guitarist Jpohn-Angus MacDonald, bassist Jack Syperek and drummer Sean Dalton. Having supported the likes of Robert Plant, The Rolling Stones, Guns 'N' Roses, Kiss and...