L.I.E.S. continues to move further from the house bins with its longest release to date, the intense synthesizer music of Jahiliyya Fields’ 2×12″ Unicursal Hexagram.
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Dave Aju, Heirlooms
June 8, 2012 – 12:01 AM
Dave Aju follows the blueprints laid out on the All Together Now single for his second album, the detailed and expressive Heirlooms.
Lauer, Phillips
June 7, 2012 – 10:01 AM
Phillips, Lauer’s first full-length, puts his impossibly melodic, love-it-or-leave-it sound to the test, making for a somewhat inscrutable front-to-back listen containing some of the best nuggets in his discography.
Traxman, Da Mind Of Traxman
June 6, 2012 – 10:01 AM
Traxman is capable of picking any sample he chooses and disfiguring it to suit his own purposes, and Da Mind Of Traxman accordingly bounces from source to source with ease.
Laurel Halo, Quarantine
June 5, 2012 – 10:01 AM
With Quarantine, Laurel Halo seems to have arrived at the edge of her vision, delivering beatless ambience on which her vocals dance with convincing, awkward poise.
Shackleton, Music For The Quiet Hour / The Drawbar Organ EPs
May 30, 2012 – 10:01 AM
Containing an abundance of music, art, and text, Shackleton’s latest release is a lot to take in, and the relationship between the various objects housed within is hardly explicit.
Lone, Galaxy Garden
May 29, 2012 – 10:01 AM
Galaxy Garden is Lone’s coup de grâce, a world of maximalist breakbeat hardcore in which there are always at least four hooks in play at any one time without feeling baroque or overwrought.
Ghosting Season, The Very Last Of The Saints
May 24, 2012 – 10:02 AM
By marrying their electronic tones and rhythms to guitar-sourced textures, Ghosting Season create a compelling an cohesive listen on their debut album.
Pye Corner Audio, The Black Mill Tapes Volumes 1 & 2
May 23, 2012 – 10:01 AM
Originating from a mysterious, digital source, the first two of Pye Corner Audio’s vivid and affecting The Black Mill Tapes have been pressed to vinyl by Type and tape by Further Records.
BBH: Dream 2 Science, Dream 2 Science
May 17, 2012 – 10:01 AM
Rush Hour’s reissue of this often overlooked classic album reminds listeners not only of Dream 2 Science’s songwriting chops, but also his voracious appetite for sexual themes.
Actress, R.I.P
May 16, 2012 – 10:01 AM
R.I.P finds Actress eschewing the mélanges of ramshackle genre studies in favor of an album that is considerably more precise in its geometry.
Shifted, Crossed Paths
May 10, 2012 – 10:01 AM
Over 11 tracks, Shifted’s debut LP exhibits a feathered, skeletal sound, an ambient-industrial hybrid with attention to detail that rewards in its measured establishment of mood and slow, generous climax.
Levon Vincent, Fabric 63
May 8, 2012 – 10:01 AM
The same water that makes NY’s pastrami and bagels so renowned seems to affect our house music as well, as Fabric 63, mixed by Levon Vincent, catches a group of musicians at the height of their powers.
Lazer Sword, Memory
April 26, 2012 – 10:01 AM
Memory, Lazer Sword’s second LP proper and first for Modeselektor’s Monkeytown imprint, showcases just how far their refinement has come.
Fort Romeau, Kingdoms
April 19, 2012 – 12:01 AM
100% Silk is known for hosting the dance projects of noise and experimental musicians, so Fort Romeau’s pop background essentially shows him approaching “homemade house” from the opposite trajectory.
BBH: Various Artists, In The Dark: The Soul Of Detroit
April 18, 2012 – 10:01 AM
It’s not often that we’ll write up a repress here at LWE, especially when the original discs were released less than a decade ago, but then In the Dark is a pretty special collection of music.
Mix Mup & Kassem Mosse, MM / KM
April 17, 2012 – 10:01 AM
Mix Mup and Kassem Mosse’s mini-LP for Trilogy Tapes is an absorbing example of the duo crashing through dance music conventions with cheerful gusto.
Ian Martin, Mechanical Rain
April 11, 2012 – 10:01 AM
Judging by Mechanical Rain, Ian Martin’s latest effort for Seattle’s Further Records, he’s aiming to soundtrack some seriously creepy moments.