Reviews
Police Des Moeurs, self-titled
Classic synthpop with an out of bounds sensibility from the Montreal based project.
Observer: March 21st, 2014
We head into the weekend with capsule reviews of releases by Becoming the Devourer, Multicolor, and Negru Voda & Knös.
Philipp Münch & Loss, “Transcontinental Desperation”
The creative meeting of Ant-Zen roster artists Dan Fox of Loss and Phillip Münch of Synapscape sounds pretty much as you would expect it to.
Replicas: The Fourth Man, self-titled
A reissue by Vancouver’s oft-overlooked The Fourth Man emerges from the vaults with raw electro-industrial which sounds utterly fresh in 2014.
Seeming, “Madness & Extinction”
The debut album from Seeming (Alex Reed and Aaron Fuleki, ex-of ThouShaltNot) is a meditation on the end of everything we know, everything we care about, delivered in the form of a sublimely executed pop record.
MEND, “Vanishing Point”
MEND’s debut perfectly consolidates the Chicago IDM project’s uncanny mix of the familiar and the alien.
Displacer & Nimon, “House of the Dying Sun”
Two noted artists from the IDM end of Our Thing collaborate on a smooth and shoegazey release for Hymen records.
Observer: March 7th, 2014
We look at some recent releases from Ssleaze, BLVCK CEILING and c.db.sn.
In Conversation: Laibach, “Spectre”
The senior staff chew over the disarmingly direct tone of Laibach’s latest opus.
Blac Kolor, “Wide Noise”
Another level-up from dark technoist Hendrick Grothe that exceeds the standard he’s already set in his short career as a producer.
Welle:Erdball, “Tanzmusik Für Roboter”
Stalwart retro-futurists Welle:Erdball return to their roots with an excellent batch of bleepy synth numbers.
Alphaxone, “Living In The Grayland”
Prolific Iranian dark ambient project Alphaxone goes in a slightly spacier direction on their solid new release.
