[ August 17, 2004 / bookmark ]
The act Run Return has three free tracks on its website, two examples of post-rock folk-chamber music with a pop touch, and one unapologetic pop ditty. The pleasure in “Thoughts Broken by Footsteps” isn’t merely how the acoustic guitar, plucked …
[ August 16, 2004 / bookmark ]
Live, in performance, the Portland-based quintet Adelaide leavens its post-rock minimalism — all heady, light song form with a decidedly introspective bent — with 16mm films, giving the audience a series of dreamy visuals cues by which to follow the …
[ August 4, 2004 / bookmark ]
Marsen Jules’ free online EP, Yara, on the Autoplate netlabel as of May of this year, is caught in a blissful limbo between the Cocteau Twins’ hypnotic chamber stews and Julee Cruise’s dub-tinged torch songs. The six-song set is both …
[ August 3, 2004 / bookmark ]
Is this really the case? Have Orbital, granddaddies of rave music, oft conflated with the Orb and William Orbit, called it quits? Well, they apparently did so last week on John Peel’s radio show. Their farewell, encore performance of “Rewind, …
[ August 2, 2004 / bookmark ]
Victor Tverdochlebov, a musician from Slovakia who records under the name Karaoke Tundra, has released nine free MP3 tracks with the dimensions of haiku, the static-laced fissures of microsound experiments, and the overall feel of a pop demo tape. The …