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[AMBIENT/EXPERIMENTAL] Benoît Pioulard – ‘Sonnet’ Album Review

March 3, 2015 Ryan Burns

Sometimes the cliche “got what it takes” doesn’t even approach your doubts: what if you have no idea what it takes in the first place? What if your target was wrong altogether, and all this invested time has now been squandered? You throw back a few bourbons, if you’re me, decide you’re a multifaceted person […]

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Rock

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[DARK INDIE/POST-PUNK] Disappears – “Irreal” Album Review

January 12, 2015 Ryan Burns

When I hear poppy, cheery, bubble-gum-smacking tunes I’m convinced I really need to get this depression diagnosed. The opiate of the masses: make people content about their lives so they, unperturbed, reproduce the given social and political order. Beautiful world? Sure, but let’s be sincere. What makes it beautiful isn’t its happiness, luminance, and spectacle, […]

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Minimal House

Album Reviews

Minimal House

[AMBIENT/EXPERIMENTAL] Anjou – “Anjou” Album Review

November 11, 2014 Ryan Burns

Satellites erode, collide, and emit, adding ever more debris to the morass already orbiting the earth. Read about it: it’s a thick film surrounding us, and may have already reached critical mass to accumulate indefinitely. Bits of metallic, electric nuggets speed around the planet, a harsh inorganic environment set against the backdrop of sub-zero silence. […]