Cindy Hernandez/Staff Writer Ytamo’s album “MI WO” is an ambitious album for what it blatantly attempts and succeeds at beautifully. By turning electronic music into a venue for the organic, the natural, and seasonal, Japanese musician Ytamo propels the sounds of the fake as living cohesively, like clockwork, but without unnecessary optimism. In short, the […]
Cindy Hernandez/ Contributing Writer Sound of Ceres, formerly Candy Claws, a boy-girl psych/dream/lounge/honestly magic duo from Fort Collins, Colorado have done it again on their new album “Nostalgia for Infinity.” Three years after the release of their second full length debut Ceres and Calypso in The Deep Time, Sound of Ceres encompasses a mature, enthusiastic, […]
Cindy Hernandez/Contributing Writer On Animal Collective’s tenth album, “Painting With,” the gang minus Deakin explores some of the softness of their predecessors in psychedelic pop, using a canvas of melody, fun and gentle playfulness to establish what could be their safest album yet. Even with the help of collaborators like John Cale, an early founding […]
Cindy Hernandez/Contributing Writer Roly Porter’s origins are fitting for the abrasive space trip Third Law takes you on. Stemming from a background in dubstep, the textural shifts in Third Law are at once fitting to its dark ambient sensibilities while fitting a timely homage to concept albums of soundscapes, the kind of album we believe […]
