Interview w/ Chris Reimer of Women
Sep25

Interview w/ Chris Reimer of Women

  Women, a band full of cackling unrest and marred melodies, comes from Calgary. Their debut album was crosshatched with airy-reverberations and distorted instrumentation. Chris Reimer and company create a landscape of flickering memories and weathered musical notes. On their newest record, “Public Strain”, they have sharpened their chiseling tools to create an album that is emotionally monolithic, intangible yet...

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Interview w/ Bear in Heaven
Sep02

Interview w/ Bear in Heaven

  Bear In Heaven’s album “Beast Rest Forth Mouth” is a kaleidoscope of detached drums and ethereal vocals. The chaotic symphony pouring from your speakers sounds like a swelling of marred beauty and yellowed memories of adolescence. Jon Philpot, the lead vocalist of the Brooklyn band, channels an otherworldly voice that wafts and ducks throughout the group’s sullen world of distortion and sadness. The...

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Interview w/ Best Coast
Aug27

Interview w/ Best Coast

  Listening to Best Coast is almost akin to listening to the cackle of a car speaker, worn down by the effervescent saltiness of the sea air, as it sits beside a nearby boardwalk. You can hear the ethereal hum of the treble, the waves crashing like faraway mortor fire, and the detached voices of beach dwellers join together like white noise. Best Coast is a band that evokes the watery ghosts of yesteryear. Bethany Cosentino, the...

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Interview w/ Sage Francis
Jul21

Interview w/ Sage Francis

  Sage Francis is a poet laureate. Crowned with a sweaty brow and an open palm, his movements are deliberate and without reservation. The mercurial wordsmith and the Rhode Island emcee released his newest record, “Li(f)e,” earlier this year. The LP,  not atypical of the artist’s intellectual bloodletting, uncoils with introspective buoyancy. Enlisting some of the biggest movers in the music industry, Francis cut tracks with...

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Interview w/ Holly Miranda
Apr23

Interview w/ Holly Miranda

  “The Magician’s Private Library,” an eclectic gnashing of marred horns and spectral pianos, is a brilliant offering of jazzy-distortion and airy vocals. The perpetrator of the album, whose music is both quietly sinister and radically unchained, is Holly Miranda. The musical maven was somewhat of a wunderkind, learning piano and guitar at an early age, and eventually scored a short-lived record deal with BMG at...

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Interview w/ Fever Ray
Mar19

Interview w/ Fever Ray

  Karin Dreijer Andersson isn’t homologous with her music. The cryptic and ethereal sounds of Fever Ray, clawing its way out of some uncharted land that sounds of writhing ghosts and dystopia-like themes, is brooding with ideas. The seemingly enigmatic Karin isn’t so perpetually intangible as one would think, the artist says, as she concedes that her body is merely a vessel for her mysterious vocal entities. The music works...

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Interview w/ The Clientele
Feb06

Interview w/ The Clientele

  Haunting reverberations bob and slink, effortlessly bringing fourth frayed images of meandering uncertainty and fallen loves, each time The Clientele’s music is heard. This is how Alasdair MacLean utilizes his hushed, buoyant and atmospherically drenched vocal delivery as the band’s frontman.. MacLean’s voice, a ghostly pulley that lifts monochrome memories and fluttering echoes of despondency from his mind, is an abyss...

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Interview w/ Here We Go Magic
Jan23

Interview w/ Here We Go Magic

  Effervescent echoes and spectral instrumentation waft through the air, creating, what some might call, a symphony of lo-fi harmonization and hauntingly desperate ambiance. Here We Go Magic’s self-titled debut album has, in the last few months, gained a lot of notoriety with music critics. Pitchfork named the work an honorable mention for their best album list of 2009, while, according to Spin and Under the Radar magazines, Here...

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