Joseph Bertolozzi: Tower Music
The sounds of the tower, both percussed and ambient, are the most interesting dimensions of this project; yet, they are also what become the most compromised through Bertolozzi’s treatment of them.
Oneohtrix Point Never: Garden of Delete
Oneohtrix Point Never is the highest expression of the art of middlebrow pastiche.
Radiohead: A Moon Shaped Pool
With A Moon Shaped Pool, the band has officially transitioned from ostensible aesthetic activity to political pseudo-activity.
The People v. O.J. Simpson
How then, in 1994, did O.J. become the posterchild for “racial justice” against the LAPD? How did his acquittal convincingly offer any sense of hope to black people across America?
The Amateur's Embrace: Gerasimos Floratos @ White Columns
As a whole, it is clear that Floratos has revamped the ways of the amateur and did not merely mimic them.
Kanye West: The Life of Pablo
The Life of Pablo is West’s most dissonant record, literally and figuratively.
Laura Poitras: Astro Noise @ The Whitney
In truth (one Poitras fails to see) nothing today is readily available. In our society, that unknowable-ness, that other, is channeled into fear-driven domination.
Tim Hecker: Love Streams
The majority of ambient music seems to reside in a form of despair; it exists most often in a state of being, relying merely on the passing of time itself to serve as its dramatic momentum, engaging the listener in a largely static sonic-auratic experience.
The Closed-Eyes Listener and The Forty Part Motet
I propose that the truthful joy of The Forty Part Motet is rather more sober, clinical and above all alienated than the sublime or transcendent categories projected onto it.
Karl Fousek: Pattern Variation
Like much new experimental electronic music, Fousek is the result of a generation of ‘sound artists’ who find it necessary to return to the origins of electronic music.
To Make the Minor Major: On Giorgio Morandi
Minor artworks fulfill a current need and inevitably conform to what might be termed a ‘minor consciousness’ of our contemporary era.
Cian: Strain Studies
Strain Studies indeed sounds strained and tense, definitely not easy listening. But, at the same time, it seems to be verging on a complete and lively spontaneity.