Album Review: The Black Cat’s Eye – Decrypting Dreams Of Weird Animals And Strange Objects
The Black Cat’s Eye – these are glaring fuzz, bass and drum riffs, interwoven chord pickings andlead guitars rooted in the blues – sometimes screaming, singing or rough. And above everything,the instrumental and song melody hovers almost like a hymn.With their musical style, the band, founded in Frankfurt am Main/Germany in 2018, is directlylinked to …
Album Review: Yelka – In a Rose Hat
A strikingly different take on contemporary America—YELKA’s In A Rose Hat offers an artistic perspective far removed from stadium rock or trap trends. It’s an intimate, almost cinematic interpretation that upends expectations. “Crawl into your hibernation, don’t wait for a new sensation…” the opening, ´Colors Will Come´— begins the new album of the Berlin post-rock …
LP Compilation Review: Don Letts – The Rebel Dread @ Echo Beach
Echo Beach proudly presents: Don Letts – The Rebel Dread – legendary film and video director, disc jockey and musician. Don Letts, in his capacity as a selector (it’s not for nothing that he hosts his own show on BBC6 radio), enthusiastically accepted the invitation to create a compilation from Echo Beach’s extensive catalog to mark …
EP Review: Millsart – Space Outside Space
Axis Expressionist Series vol.8 The meaning of this concept (Space Outside :Space) lies within your answers to these questions. Providing the questions are considered with honesty, the true meaning of what “Space” refers to becomes revealed.There are no right or wrong answers, just reactions based on your view and angles on the mechanisms of life. …
EP Review: Cie – Adventures II
Cie embarks on a new sonic expedition with ‘Adventures II‘, the successor to the original journey, continuing the musical quest with great intensity and energy. As the music begins, ‘Reichenstein‘ rises on the horizon like a majestic mountain peak, growing ever more imposing as you draw closer. Upon arrival, the towering presence of the castle …
Album Review: Spiral Deluxe – The Love Pretender
Demonstrating the poignant power of experience + human connection + innate musicality + operating in the present moment, Jeff Mills’ Spiral Deluxe collective unveil their second album – The Love Pretender. Driven by the free expression and creativity of improvised performance, Spiral Deluxe is an electronic jazz fusion project comprised electronic music visionary Jeff, along …
Album Review: Fluxion – Haze
Since his early days at Chain Reaction, K. Soublis (Fluxion) has carved his own unique style, combining elements of dub, ambient, techno, score, textural, and even jazz elements, all glued together with his distinct production aesthetic. Haze is a broad selection of pieces that was recorded between 2023-2024. The music is moving from more slow …
EP Review: Millsart – Star Child
This is Axis Expressionist series Pt. 7. Imperfections are a natural part of the world, and they can make us beautiful and unique: Nothing and everything is perfect. We can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and still we’re beautiful.” A Star Child is the idea that a person can be incomplete and not self-aware, …
Album Review: Cluster Lizard – Herts
The pulse of the path. In a massive heartbeat, daring waves rise one after another. The unbreakable tide of the lightning dance, where life and death collide in the eternal vibration of consciousness. In previous centuries, Ukrainian warriors invented an audacious macabre ritual called Herts, a courageous death dance. Before the battle, a few ruthless …
Album Review: Scan 7 – Dark Territory
Patience is a virtue well-rewarded in techno; finding the right groove to build on then holding your nerve long enough to pay off the wait at the optimum moment is a much more skillful endeavour than it would seem for such a minimalistic style. And few display this talent better than Detroit originals Scan 7. …