Yes, I am a few weeks late. Technically a lot of companies give out their dividends after they have taken a chance to reflect, look back on the last quarter,…
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2017 was going to be a year of extremes. The way 2016 left things, there was no way it could be anything different. Musically this seems to be true. Over…
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Mark Kozelek ties together so many impulses that it is hard not to be infuriated by him. On one hand, he wants to tap a little into that Michael Hurley…
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People often put their end of year lists in order. I don’t. This can be problematic if one is trying to find out exactly what spoke to the write. Honestly…
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Long ago, Markus Popp reigned supreme over the burgeoning glitch genre. With a highly recognizable style, he was a deconstructionist who possessed an ear for melody. His role as the…
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The End of Year List is a threatening one for any audiophile. Over the course of a year a lot of great bands come out to win over listeners. Really…
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I have been consuming a lot of non-straightforward art lately. I am not sure why. I feel that the digressive seems more honest to me. Discernible paths are fictitious. Rooting…
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What is Autechre, really? Plenty would argue that they started out in the highly recognizable techno house etc. genres, before branching out. Nothing properly suits them – they can go…
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Birdwolf is a new year-long project authored by the collective Entropy community. It is a collaborative online epic poem written by the Entropy community on a weekly basis. A different…
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Music is a commodity. I have tried to fight against it my whole life forever arguing with people about the value of art, how it is something far deeper than…
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In the 1990s a number of musicians had discovered an interesting mix of noise and shoegaze that became known as glitch. Starting off with a select few number of musicians…
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2015 has come and gone yet another fantastic year of releases. A lot of the stuff I enjoyed this year seems to go for the disorienting, such as Oneohtrix Point…
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Minimalism can come from a desire to reduce a busy environment to its underlying essential elements. Richard Chartier’s digitally pure near-silence stems from this desire to turn the volume down.…
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Russell Haswell’s stock and trade has been in the physicality of sound. Whether it has been part of his “Live Salvage” albums or his field recordings it has been an…
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