Boards of Canada: Tomorrow’s Harvest – Boards of Canada have never been strangers to reclusiveness, but for almost a decade they seemed completely content with remaining out of sight. In their absence, their fingerprints continued to spread across the electronica landscape while they stayed in the shadow of their own influence, leaving us to wonder if they [...]
Northcape: Exploration and Ascent — Exploration and Ascent is a collection of ambient music that experiments with a variety of beats. Unlike other experimental electronic music, Northcape transcends emotion (yes, emotion) quite well without the need to saturate each track with a myriad of sounds that can create monotony. Instead, Exploration and Ascent focuses on the [...]
This Is Your Captain Speaking: ARC – All too often, it seems, we as music fans focus on finding the next new thing, that which is going to change or revolutionize a genre or sound. There are those moments, though, when the new and notable comes about not because they’ve done something novel, but because [...]
Hey Marseilles: Lines We Trace — Well, it looks like we’re going to have to add another band to the list of great bands coming out of the Pacific Northwest as of late, and that band is Hey Marseilles. Joining the ranks of Fleet Foxes, Band of Horses, and STRFKR, Hey Marseilles proves with their [...]
Kavinsky: Outrun — If you’ve seen the movie Drive, or if you are awesome, then you’ve heard of Kavinsky. The song that plays during the opening sequence of the Ryan Gosling vehicle (see what I did there?) is ‘Night Call’, a song that also makes an appearance on their first studio album, OutRun. Kavinsky is actually [...]