Nerd Angeles is an artist who has a very unorthodox sound. It’s very experimental and diverse. He doesn’t want to stick to just one sound, he wants to be versatile and bring plenty more to the table. His music is influenced by Tyler the Creator, Pharell, Childish Gambino, and KYLE. Growing up, he wasn’t into all the things the other
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Jazz artist and multi-instrumentalist Glenn McCormick just put out his debut album. Rife with warm delight, McCormick takes eleven tracks into bossa nova territory complete with violins, flute, and trombone. There’s nothing quite like Milwaukee in the summertime – as we all know – and McCormick plays with the imagery of the city’s lakefront to captivate a jovial holiday energy.
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Glitch-breakcore artist Jared Spiegelhoff has rebranded himself as Jared Eternal Mirror, and he’s out with his first music under the new name. It’s a seven-track album of moonlit madness; Spiegelhoff uses mind-boggling breakbeats against walls of computerized curiosity. It feels like a sci-fi video game in many ways, which he’s cited as one of his main inspirations. Jared Eternal Mirror
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Experimental-electronic dance artists Honeyboy and Fjord F-150 teamed up for a new EP out on Bic Croc Records. It’s three tracks that stay comfy in techno and deep house territory as droning industrial effects swarm in and out. The third tune clocks in at almost nine minutes, quivering with midnight shadows. For those that can’t wait to bust out those
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Ben Slowey talks to the experimental artist and poet.
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Composer and percussionist Mike Neumeyer plays with the cool colors on his latest track. It’s a marimba and vibraphone improvisation that feels like a seaside breeze at sunrise. Delicate and serene, it’s a piece that resembles the world gently awakening from a peaceful slumber. Mike Neumeyer has mastered the experiments of sound and color over the last few months, and
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Dungeon-drone synth project Psyclopean’s latest record is inspired by the fantasy fiction of Lord Dunsany. The story entails a classified government program that develops technology to record the dreams of a test subject. As such, these compositions represent the unfathomable realms of the subconscious. To make it all the more eerie, we don’t know where these paths all lead to,
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Freakwalker’s album sounds like the internet coming to life.
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Improvisational noise collective Frenia are out with new pieces. Annie Grizzle and Eli Smith join the original trio here in collaboration, supporting the existential philosophy of Frenia being what it is simply by having individuals present for it. “What Is It” is a synergistic movement of intentional sound being transferred from one person to the next, creating an organic immediacy
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Lo-fi pop artist So Zuppy has the companion EP to last fall’s “Blindly, Pt. 1” out today. While that EP was punctuated by heartbreak, this body of work is warmed by newfound joy and fulfillment. Micah Foust feels a sense of wonder and excitement from sharing space with someone new who came into his life at the perfect moment. As
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Experimental electronic artist Detraction has a new video out from his recent album “As Above/So Below.” It begins with a slow-motion shot of a snow shower on a busy Milwaukee street, eventually switching to a rain shot filmed in reverse. In the second half, close-ups of the puddles flowing down the curbs reflect a fascination by perpetual motion of matter.
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Electronic sampler artist Rum Revere is already out with his second album of the year. Brock Gourlie created this body of work around phrases and conversations had from various town hall meetings. From talking about hookah lounges to flamingos to Batman to an ex-husband being the killer, it’ll amaze you what subjects get tossed around in the town hall. Rum
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Ambient electronic artist Brandon Buhr has a new EP out, following up January’s “Journey Through the Mountains.” Being with the anxious drones of electro-classical nightmares in “Toba,” the EP moves into a desolate space void with “Dryas” and then concludes with the free-floating plane of nothingness prescribed by “Endless Ocean of Dreams.” It’s one of the most bleak soundscape collections
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Mike Neumeyer continues his immersive work with a new color-themed track.
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getawaydriver sets the tone of last year with a dark new beat tape.
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Electronic composer Jack Lusk is out with a new EP. Cloaked in mystery, Lusk’s style is realized through glitchy industrial techno over five tracks. It’s got a dreamy surface that gets progressively more nightmarish as textures are added in and out. “Petrichor” is a good example, beginning with a tensely produced melody that descends into a freezing trance. If you’re
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Experimental psych-pop wizard Kyle Kenowski has begun the rollout on his new album, “Ourugorus Garden,” which he’s planning to add one song at a time to until it becomes dozens and dozens of songs long. His first track is a jovial, piano-driven tune about hoping to still have time in your life to live into your imagination. The song is
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Percussionist Mike Neumeyer’s latest track is one of his longest compositions yet, clocking in at eight and a half minutes. Beginning with minimal phrases, the track gradually ascends into something grand. As more notes are hit by Neumeyer in rapid succession, it indeed feels like the sun creeping up over the horizon and piercing the low-lying clouds. Eventually it returns
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Ambient artist BVSMV has a new track out that was featured on Triplicate Records’ new compilation titled “Space Invaders.” A saccharine tune of synth layers, we get put exactly as the title suggests, together with your significant other against the unrelenting precipitation. You feel present and at peace as you watch the sun slowly pierce the damp horizon, weathering the
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Phatbrane rolls up for his latest project.
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Get lots of dark, bass-heavy tones from a recent track from the producer.
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Mike Neumeyer can transport you with his latest marimba tune.
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HymnWho’s debut EP is full of sonic exploration.
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Composer and percussionist Mike Neumeyer’s latest edition of his color-centered marimba series focuses on blue. Neumeyer thought of a Crayola marker called “Electric Blue” and just like that the piece became a reflection of the past. His mallet work is busy and shuffling, like all the memories pouring in at once. It’s a blissful blast of nostalgia from Mike Neumeyer,
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Kenny Reichert from indie folk duo Sara and Kenny has taken time in the past year to work on lo-fi instrumentals, and he’s out with his first track as “Skky” on the label Noh Life. With koi fish on the cover art, the song indeed feels like being a little fish in a big pond. The production is hydrous and
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