Night Dust is a haunted, and often haunting, album where texture, atmosphere and emotions are used to create a palpable sonic environment.
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Astrïd – High Blues
High Blues is a study in atmosphere and space - music for canyons and wide skies.
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Charlemagne Palestine & Janek Schaefer – Day of the Demons
This collaboration finds this duo of Palestine & Schaeferis probing at, laughing with, and deliberately standing back from the intrinsic demons of human nature.
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Liminal Minimals – April 2012
As we emerge from the storm cloud of April, we give you some short reviews of albums that have passed through the Liminal space in the last few weeks.
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James Yorkston – Moving Up Country (10th Anniversary Edition)
Ten years since its original release, Yorkston's debut album has lost none of its charm or power.
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Mike Shiflet – Merciless
Mike Shiflet’s shifting, elegant sonic experimentation on Merciless is so meticulous and thoughtful, it feels unfair to describe as merely “noise music”.
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L’ocelle Mare – Serpentement
Produced in the Protestant temple of Bergerac, an instrumental album of complex beauty that explores what constitutes music and what noises can be coaxed from instruments.
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Gate – The Dew Line (Remastered)
One can only applaud MIE Music for resurrecting this absolute treasure, and continue to absorb the brilliance of Gate’s incendiary, unfathomable and timeless molestation of rock’s archetypes.
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Liminal Minimals – March 2012
We look through some more records we couldn't review in full.
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Meshuggah – Koloss
The latest work from Swedish band Meshuggah is a complex, deep and brutal slice of metal.
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