Electronic artist-composer-guitarist Jack Lusk dropped a new track this past week. As the title implies, there’s a tense and frantic tone, with meticulous elements that weave between speeds. It’s like you’re either running or hiding from something, never too safe. Get your blood flowing with Jack Lusk’s “The Pursuit.”
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Docx captures the calm after an explosive moment on a new track.
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The group explores Americana on their new album.
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Experimental ambient artist J. McCoy has a new album out of tracks he made when he returned to Milwaukee two years ago. Mesmerizing layers of modular improvisations stack up like ladders into the sky with “All I Have Left to Give.” Deeply textural like majestic sunsets, these tracks are patiently optimistic yet hellacious in atmospheric texture. J. McCoy has been
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Experimental artist and producer Docx’s latest single is a burst of hyper electronica. It’s a track about feeling unstoppable and on top of the world, unfazed by foreseeable obstacles. Clocking in at a minute and eighteen seconds, “Better Days” is an intoxicating banger with the vitality to wake you the fuck up and get you going. Docx has been pushing
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Experimental electronic artist Rum Revere released a new record this week. Themed around game show dating submissions, this album has fun with big ol’ dinosaur brains, a journey through paradise, and a custom sweatshirt designer among other silly things. Brock Gourlie has always been one to emphasize entertainment as much as meticulousness, turning fragmented humor into ambitious hip hop beat
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Experimental percussionist Mike Neumeyer released a new album. We’ve gotten to know Neumeyer pretty well over the last year with his many instrumental compositions utilizing marimba, bells and chimes, but he’s got more up his sleeve – Neumeyer sings here! This record is an exuberant, positive exercise in actualizing Neumeyer’s increasingly layered creative vision, inspired by his father’s recent passing.
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Experimental pop artist Docx has visuals out to the song “You Will Not Know” from recent EP “Episode 11111111.” With effects by evilVenus, we observe a Hello Kitty-type character moving across the screen like in a video game while shadowy red-and-black figures haunt the background. The protagonist runs pasts increasingly dark messages of discouragement and nihilism, forth towards ostensible doom.
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HogHead is a new project that finds Eliot Hess and Tom Olwig of math rock duo Beach Burial joining forces with Milwaukee noise icon Peter J. Woods. Entirely instrumental, their debut album feels like a walk through the neighborhood during the pandemic with a head full of chaotic feelings. The Hogs have fun with complex melodies, where the riffs and
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It’s only April and experimental noise project Death Tape Super Bass has been on a roll this year with a third tape out now. Alex Steinmetz finds himself comfy in minimal techno territory without feeling any need to restrict himself from getting cacophonous or abrasive at times, even throwing in some whimsical interludes. With thumping bass lines and buzzing industrial
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The producer comes straight out of left field for an unconventional beat tape.
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Experimental-ambient artist Space Whaler has a new EP out. It’s three tracks that feel like we’re watching the sun rise and set in deep introspect; “Never Knew” features a minimalist melody and obfuscated lyrics, “What You Could Do” is something of an interlude that cries out into the sky, and “A New Day” hovers amid droning notes. Space Whaler loses
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Experimental pop artist Josh Evert, known for his work with Silver City Studios, is gearing up to release his debut full-length album “7 Islands” and he’s out with the first single. “Another Deity” is inspired by the poetry of Danez Smith and carries a sunny, nautical feel with esoteric lyrics – we look forward to the album in full. Evert,
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Experimental sound artist Illicit Eagle is out with his sophomore album. It’s 21 tracks of all kinds of samples and sequences, akin to the soundtrack of a wonky, cartoonish dream. Anton Sieger creates collages of bird sounds, old movie dialogue, scattered instruments, and fragmented electronica. It’s a mercurial yet jovial experiment from Illicit Eagle.
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Latin reggae-soul band Pulpa de Guayaba’s latest single is your new favorite morning song. It’s a love tune about the person of your dreams that appears before you in real life; you like everything about them you see and invite them to come along with you for the ride. With a horn solo like a singing heart, “Talk to Me”
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Noise project Lucky Bone has a new album out, inspired by recent dreams. Each suite consists of collaged pieces of harsh noise, pop-sensible songs, and distorted samples that all make for a most surreal listening experience. Lucky Bone shares on Bandcamp what specific imageries are represented in each track, some fragmented while others vivid. Luther Price’s film “Warm Broth” and
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Experimental electronic artist Rum Revere is out with a two-piece to preface his upcoming album. “Marbles” is a spicy dance tune with big beat sensibilities while “The Horror” is a bit more minimalist but with plenty of whimsical sounds. Rum Revere loves to sample random snippets from dialogue in a way that not only thematically fits the songs but adds
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Dark ambient artist J. McCoy released a new album this past week. These five tracks consist of Modular drones that hover in darkness at times while grasping for peeks of light at others. It feels like a sci-fi space movie, where each piece is a new area explored. J. McCoy traverses a vast abyss through dense soundscapes with “The Deafening
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Experimental noise project Death Tape Super Bass released a two-piece last week. Think of these tracks as oddball dance cuts, with minimal techno sensibilities and industrial-esque textures that feel like footwork in a wonky dream. Thrifted keyboards and old samplers were used here, giving something of antique feel. It’s been exciting to follow the work of Death Tape Super Bass
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Sn3k’s album sounds like a caffeine overdose.
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Experimental artist Tony Catania’s latest album consists of compositions birthed from creative euphoria. The first eleven tracks encompass “Songs Ad Libitum” while tracks 12-14 are “Three Pieces for Electro-Acoustic Duo” performed with Nicholas Elert, and the final track “Portal” features Jay Mollerskov. Everything on “Songs” is improvised; Catania uses tenor saxophone and found objects to explore sonic spaces. “Three Pieces”
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Wisdm Giovanni delivers 20 tracks on a new beat tape.
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Dark ambient project Illuminated Void is out with a new album – and it’s a single 38-minute track that feels like an entire realm. Occult-tinged movements of neoclassical and desolate folk-psychedelia dwell between the ethereal and the abyssal, effectively traversing peaks and valleys of mood. It’s a record designed to bridge fantasy of imagination with realistic wonder, which it accomplishes
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Experimental noise project Restraint Malfunction brought us a new track this week. Many of Restraint Malfunction’s pieces have a “fiery” quality to them, and this one exemplifies that in full force. Over twelve and a half minutes, a searing cut of devilish oblivion is explored. Get a feel for apocalyptic noise set ablaze with Restraint Malfunction’s “Heat Magnet.”
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Experimental percussionist Jon Mueller’s latest composition consists of several performances in one. Recorded in the Buckland Museum of Witchcraft and Magic (Cleveland, OH), Mueller uses repetitive drum patterns whose rapid pulsing swells into choir-like phenomena encircling the entire room. It’s an ensnaring exercise from Jon Mueller and a welcome addition to his catalog of envelope-pushing rhythm.
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