Today, we focus our energies on stopping time, on capturing moments, plucking context and emotion from out of thin air. With these hypnotic, textured, highly-emotive soundscapes, we can frame states of being like mental photographs. Have you ever found yourself in a situation you realized was sweet in some way and that you wanted to […]
Time to take a slightly folksy turn for today’s music picks. I cannot deny that I’ve had this strange sort of aesthetic brewing in my head, inspired visually by things like Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park and the World’s Fairs of the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. Or things like these 18th-century peep show box images I […]
Okay, maybe this theme is a bit easy, but hey – in honor of Warp‘s 20-year anniversary, why not showcase some of my all-time favorites from the Sheffield label? To raise the bar, it seemed like a good idea to select some of the more obscure favorites, therefore all of these tracks come from singles […]
So I’m sure there is already a sea of chatter about Bibio‘s newest, Ambivalence Avenue. That becomes a very fitting title, almost in anticipation of the reception it would get, ambivalence is described as “having simultaneous conflicting feelings toward a person or thing.” Maybe this was intentional, to take a markedly bolder step forward, to […]
Music and Photography Alex on Jun 24 2009
