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The experimental duo's debut release is void jazz (Reptilian Snack). On void jazz, guitarist/synth player Andrew Kruske and drummer Eli Weidman create abstract constellations of notes and textures. Strums, plucks, synth wriggles, and snare and cymbal hits bring to mind drops of rain splashing against the surface of a pond; each lands with a crisp … Continue reading Daily Yinz – prepare thyself – spirits of the prism
The experimental electronic artist's latest release is Snapped Bones (Unmapped North). While 8cylinder's music has ranged over the years from monstrous stomp to queasy drone, Snapped Bones finds the artist refining the lean, mean hardcore sound introduced on 2022's Botched Chronomancy. The album's title track is heated to a rolling boil; harsh rhythms skitter across … Continue reading Daily Yinz – 8cylinder – Snapped Bones
A few words about a few more local tracks that hit the spot over the past few weeks ### NO HEAVEN - THE ATHEIST IN THE FOXHOLE A cavernous, foreboding duet that sounds like it's emanating from a strobe-lit dungeon decorated with Have A Nice Life posters. More from NO HEAVEN Follow on Instagram https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7tzJMkCiQg … Continue reading Multi-Weekly Wrap-Up 07.25.25
The brutal death metal band's debut EP is Vulgar Acts of Faith (Iron Fortress). The EP's five tracks are undoubtedly barbarous--full of retching belches and bowel-churning guitars--but they also display an impressive nimbleness, which stems from Reduced to Dust's watertight rhythm section. Not even a stray drop of bile leaks through. "Disgorging the Holy" adopts … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Reduced to Dust – Disgorging the Holy
Michael Skz's latest release as en EETCHIS is Lake Music. On Lake Music, Skz, who also records as OMNIVM and as part of Cartoon Forest, proves once again to be a fine sculptor of mood and texture. From the title alone, "Wiggly Dance-Man" sounds like it could soundtrack either a children's TV show or a … Continue reading Daily Yinz – en EETCHIS – Wiggly Dance-Man
The emo quartet's latest album is Well of Light. Frame and Mantle use music to trace the topography of inner turmoil, weaving delicate constellations of clean guitar notes only to send them crashing back to earth with heaving riffs and screamed vocals. On an album full of post-rocky builds and lulls, "Green Grove Zone" is … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Frame and Mantle – Green Grove Zone
The quintet recently released two new tracks on Crafted Sounds. Life kicks The Zells around, as it does all of us. The band's discography is full of shaggy rockers delivered from down on the mat; they're weary, but not quite ready to tap out. It makes sense that the band would name a song after … Continue reading Daily Yinz – The Zells – Dog’s Night
The band's latest EP is Dividing Line. Dividing Line contains three tracks that swirl and pummel, brood and soar. "Clouds of Sils Maria" features chugging guitars that would sound right at home on an early-2000s Ozzfest stage, but the vocals, split between guitarist Jake Curran and bassist Rachel Hines, are pure, shoegazey melancholy; "If I … Continue reading Daily Yinz – eyewash – Clouds of Sils Maria
The experimental ambient artist's new album is tiki. When Derek White records complex retro-psych as Mystic Seers, he adopts an obsessively meticulous process. For the clattering, plunking, warbling, buzzing, hissing tiki, though, he didn't even employ guitar tuners or metronomes, and overlaid samples using a loose, collage-like technique. The result is a series of works … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Derek White – woost
A few words about a few more local tracks that hit the spot over the past few weeks ### Histrionic - The Eastern Side of Anderson Memorial Bridge Raw emotion that courses through jagged peaks and valleys of guitar, threatening at times to overflow its bounds. More from Histrionic Follow on Instagram ### Dan Koshute … Continue reading Multi-Weekly Wrap-Up 07.11.25
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