Sivyj Yar – The Unmourned Past (2016)
Sivyj Yar's superb new EP hopefully marks the future direction for this melancholic Russian black metal project.
Reviews
Kinit Her – The Blooming World (2016)
Kinit Her's latest is an essential work of weird and psychedelic folk.
Alcest – Kodama (2016)
Alcest's latest shoegazey metal album is a return to form, and more besides.
Previewing Wyrding
Wyrding serves up funeral doom, but the warm, light, ethereal kind. An exclusive preview.
Lost in the noise
On Environs 1, by Home Planet. A promo I dug up after six years turns out to bear some quality space drones.
Branded by Constellations
Colohan / Moult team up with an organic dark ambient tribute to nautical lives, waves, and the Atlantic.
In the cities of your eyes
A benefit compilation for refugees in camps on Greek islands, collecting 23 tracks in the experimental folk, ambient, and drone realm.
Dream Realms
When the world you're in feels alien, even the ambient state of your environment is a torrent of noise. Your brain isn't attuned to what impulses to filter out. The only way to quiet it down is to move back to your own world. And sometimes, you open your dreaming eye, you start travelling, and go on forever.
In Search Of Calm
When I'm looking for a calm moment, some lo-fi guitar and ambient ramblings are definitely my thing. The recent Nin-o-Van by Cedar AV led me to look up some older work by Songs of Green Pheasant as well, and I ended up with Gyllyng Street. Both albums are well worth looking up.