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Autobahn is a trio thatâs been playing publicly for three years, and their first release Filler Migration is a triple-single. What does 333 signify again? If thatâs too mystical for you, just listen to the songs. Theyâre far less sunny than the Kraftwerk record the band shares a name with. Itâs textbook no wave totalism; theyâve referred to their sound as âbubblegum Glenn Branca.â Opener â7 Window Stillâ pulses and sways, with disaffected delivery distracting from a constant high-pitched hum. This almost imperceptively shifts into âC-Side,â where cello is deployed in only a way a band that owns a singing saw could pull off. âAlter Songâ has a sweetness that defies its primitive drums and feedback. I would be remiss not to mention the recordâs title, which refers to a twisted side effect of attempting to achieve physical perfection via augmented reality. All of those art school papers paid off.
- Madeline Frino
Jul 15, 2025
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đ”This music is atmospheric even on thier more abstract tracks. I find them engrossing but not intrusive. Recently when writing, cleaning, driving I have opted to music without words most of the time. Head too crowded right now I guess for more words. Thatâs not all I listen to, just a trend that has been happen lately. A funny story about Neubauten is a woman I know went to a concert and screamed âI love you!â And one of the members of the band yelled at her to shut up because âwe are making art here!â I love the texture of their music and some of its relaxing and other songs more aggressive but itâs always interesting.
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as I am wont to do in the spring - a time of great change, tension, and atmosphere - and to accompany my ever-evolving practice of laptop noise and found-object/code-breaking music-making, discovering high quality EAI records from time past has become something of a ritual. This key record - by three women powerhouses, and released by IMJ in 2002 - features a frighteningly alien, totally synthetic, and blistering take on quiet sound-object dismantling. The notable piece is the bisected opening "I.", where the former part's twenty-minute excursion into extremes of volume and extreme space, littered with unknowable sine blirps and kaffe's sample-tronics giving way to the latter's vicious post-post-jazz, with a particular extreme stretch of Sachiko's sine wave generator finding a truly head-splitting tone while andrea and kaffe building the scaffolding
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incredibly lush german soundscapes. synthetic sci-fi score quality with endless guitar shreds. little new age-y and tangerine drea-like. highly rec zoning out and listening to this in full
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HĂŒsker DĂŒ were in limbo in 1985. Their relationship with SST was starting to sour after the legendary Twin Cities bandâs release of New Day Rising, and by the end of the year they were in talks with major labels (Septemberâs Flip Your Wig stayed with Greg Ginnâs label, but Warner swept in soon after). Now, five live recordings from the top of 85, split between those aforementioned albums, were unearthed and freshened up by the archival titans at Numero Group, who also put out the groupâs 2017 box set Savage Young DĂŒ.
Donât expect a bootleg. The hometown show at Minneapolis venue First Avenue was recorded to 24-track tape for an intended release that never came to fruition. Jan. 30, First Ave Pt. 1 highlights the bandâs brash, pop-pushing punk, proving that good things come in threes. Their raw presence surely silenced a few naysayers who, at the time, thought their melodic inclinations and genre bleed pointed towards a âcommercialâ sound. Some people donât know what theyâve got until itâs gone ⊠and then recovered by the label that introduced Duster to Gen Z. - Madeline Frino
Donât expect a bootleg. The hometown show at Minneapolis venue First Avenue was recorded to 24-track tape for an intended release that never came to fruition. Jan. 30, First Ave Pt. 1 highlights the bandâs brash, pop-pushing punk, proving that good things come in threes. Their raw presence surely silenced a few naysayers who, at the time, thought their melodic inclinations and genre bleed pointed towards a âcommercialâ sound. Some people donât know what theyâve got until itâs gone ⊠and then recovered by the label that introduced Duster to Gen Z. - Madeline Frino
Jul 8, 2025
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What if the entire Splice library was launched into the ether, prompting a Pokemon-esque scavenger hunt to catch âem all? This is what ear pulls off. And yet, the duoâs voices are the best instruments in the mix. Chopped notes and cheeky whispers and sharp breaths abound in their latest singles, âFetishâ and âValley Serpent.â A cut-and-sew craft project of a song, âFetishâ shows impressive restraint for as long as possible before mutating multiple times. Itâs not just a glazed ambient track, or bass-boosted electronic, or .5 speed breakcore. The disjointed lyrics are hypnotically aphasic, as if having a stroke could be a beautiful experience. âValley Serpentâ has the same structureless setup, shrouding a poignant piano ballad in blown-out artificial noise. For all they add, they know when to get minimal. The gentle recitation âfeels like a burdenâ is scripted to haunt. The most Lynchian release of the year!
- Madeline Frino
Jul 17, 2025
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The Norwegian experimental musician HĂ„vard Volden has the CV of a lifer. For over a decade, he has played in the experimental rock band Moon Relay. For coming up on two decades, he has been a collaborator with the Norwegian singer and songwriter Jenny Hval. So itâs fitting that his new record is called Small Lives. Itâs full of jazzy, experimental guitar music that lives on the edges of multiple genres, which is also befitting of an artist whose seasoned approach to the guitar is accommodating of a variety of methodologies and traditions. As a whole, itâs a pleasant listen, its moderate dissonance taking on a vaguely ECM feel at times, its guitar playing nodding to folk and rock and drone, its tactile electronics dancing in the corners of the composition. What is the ideal listening environment for this record? Headphones and a couch wouldnât hurt.
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