If you’re familiar at all with John Zorn, you know he never sticks to one idea for long. His wild experimentation renders the very concept of genre obsolete, along with other conventional aspects of improvisational/outsider music. While most well-known for his blistering, over-the-top-insane acts like Naked […]
Welcome to a new series: Softer Shades of Psychedelia, hosted by me, your favorite modmin. As much as I love the heavy, the noisy, the extreme elements of psychedelic music, I also celebrate the softer, the slippery, the squishy and delicate aspects as well. Psychedelic experiences […]
Our friends (I don’t actually know them I just like their sounds) at Ampacity have excitingly seen fit to grace us with a new album this year! Their previous LPs, “Encounter One” (2013) and “Superluminal” (2015) were both gateways for me into heavy fuzzed out nodding […]
“Veteran underground experimentalists Morgan Garrett and Zack Kouns have teamed up to form Scream Culture and deliver this one-of-a-kind album of outsider Americana, back woods electronics, and heartfelt noise ballads. This is no piss take, this is sincere music from the heart and from the heartland, […]
Norwegian Canterbury music? You’re god damned right. Unlike some people who firmly believe that country of origin determines the “legitimacy” of a music’s content (You ever ask a boomer krautrock fan if krautrock made outside of Germany is actual krautrock? Go ahead and do it, it’s […]
Dodheimsgard has always been an outlier. Black metal is their palette, but the tools that they put it to use with are always experimental, often industrial, and regularly spacey and trippy. It’s always a treat when DHG has a new one for us, and this one […]
Another beautiful album from singer, Indian classical instrumentalist and electronic producer Ami Dang. They have a lovely and singular ambient-pop sound full of beautiful instrumentation on traditional instruments and modular synths, rich beats, and openly psychedelic sensibilities. This album is at least as good as the […]
The great genius of Robert Schneider has once again made a work of sublime beauty. 13 modest songs in his unique logarithmic scale that fans of one of his other projects, like Apples In Stereo, are already familiar with. They’re cosmic and psychedelic song of course, […]
Trevor Powers, formerly and once again known as Youth Lagoon, continued his shift into distorted but delicate experimental music under his own name. Unlike 2017s (also excellent) Mulberry Violence, 2020 Powers has abandoned vocals and his pop roots almost completely in favor of warped samples and […]
The Athens based multi-instrumentalist (son of John K Fernandes from Elephant 6) presents 14 great songs of experimental, psychedelic folk. The given description is “a collection of songs and soundscapes to listen to in springtime.” Perfect. Give it a listen while spring is still in the […]