RIYL: Zombi covering Air covering Zombi, a 80’s Tangerine Dream soundtrack sans all the annoying guitar solos, an ineffable sense of loss Live drum and analog synth duo Bolabit mine a snow globe of nostalgia and regret, a pastel-hued Michael[…]
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FH073 COPS
RIYL: Cluster, This Heat, mega dub Berlin-based COPS score the pathos of a world where the hero walks away (into the sunset/alley/drives), forever alone. Movies are not like real life kids: the girl gets old and disinterested, the loose alliance[…]
FH072 Lips and Ribs – Males In Harmony
RIYL: midi prog, whipping dildos, cream-based marching orders Fifteen virgins with soft, vacuum cleaner-like appendages wave through the bars of your cage, celebrating and venerating your vitality while wishing you continued stamina. Match time is close and the acrid, burned[…]
FH070/71 Sciencevision / Slim Fortune split
SLIM FORTUNE RIYL: Nick Cave in a a Las Vegas dive bar, high on salt peanuts and rotting suede – and frisky. Slim Fortune is a peyote milkshake poured from the waxy remnants of a soft-with-heat Lee Hazlewood LP all[…]
FH069 Curved Light – Vast And Infinite
RIYL: the first glimpse at the sound of the motherucking future yo Expansive, psychedelic, fourth world: these all describe the particular creative resonance that is Curved Light. Vast and Infinite is culled from four years of thinking about (and creating the sonic landscape[…]
FH068 Paco Sala – The Silent Season
RIYL: the sound of 4am on a feedback loop into the corpus callosum and spiced with heavy sedatives The drugs bring the grey, the gray dulls the pain, the pain echoes off a distant ridge somewhere right below your thigh,[…]
FH067 Yves Malone – Death House 4
RIYL: grimy VHS terror, dead malls at dusk, analog soundtrack horror Mr. Malone is back with portents of dark times indeed: some people live sunny lives of vapid clarity and hopeful posi vibes and then there is the rest of us. This album[…]
FH066 Manville Heights
RIYL: coy liaisons with fine Japanese electronic instruments, tomorrow’s sad-funk Can machines develop sadness? Regret? Does the keyboard grazing of one’s fingertips over the years accumulate feelings and longings in these electronic tools, both so invisible to us in our waking human[…]
FH065 Snakes of Pennsylvania
RIYL: The Album Leaf, early Sebadoh, cassette 4-tracking during the dead hours of a psychotropic day Meeting in art school and eventually living in fabled Tarantula House in the high hills of Pittsburgh, the duo cut their teeth during countless sessions of[…]
FH064 Yves Malone – Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life
RIYL: synthsual soundtracks, work daydreams of grandeur and danger, VHS appetizers Yves Malone is back with a 28 minute, four song EP for our International Cassette Store Day release of 2016. Dialing down the abject horror of previous programs, he[…]
FH063 Garde Forestier
RIYL: cassette loops, contemplation of the atrification of logic in seemingly intelligent systems, weed Garde Forestier is vaguely sinister 80’s hold music a lunatic French guru turned into mediation loops. Or perhaps it’s a Casio workstation gone on the fritz but becoming sentient,[…]
FH062 Kane Pour – Vision Crayon
RIYL: video game soundtracks from weather.com, audio taffy, Swedish fish + QVC We’ve had a mad bee up our bonnets for this feller since hearing Kane Pour’s previous release & are stoked as hell to drop this smooth acid candy into[…]
FH061 Urthsla – Wannsee
RIYL: Six Organs of Admittance, Flying Saucer Attack, the sweet kiss of familial termites on your cerebral cortex pretending to behave The welcome balm of Urthsla, a sweet musical utterance whispered to a young love, a gentle squall of devotional drone: and[…]
FH059 Spectrum Control – Hunters At Cyber Dawn
RIYL: Galaxie 500 w/ a drum machine, YLT with laryngitis on mushrooms, German bands you have never heard of but should have PNW psych superstar Dewey Mahood (Plankton Wat, Eternal Tapestry, Edibles) is back with a slab of the darker[…]
FH060 Half A Decade of Chrome compilation
It’s a future best-of-best-of: 26 unreleased tracks by members of the Field Hymns family, available here for the first time. Who needs a collection of past hits? NOT US. Bring us the future, man. Five years ago I started this[…]
FH058 Three Fourths Tigers – Indoor Voice
RIYL: the cross-talk of the cerebral cortex whilst dreaming of childhood and just a little bit high We are passing into dayglo psychedelic arcades and crystal spheres in the forest, though chrome silly string melting from the trees all over[…]
FH057 Andreas Brandal – Murmurs and Echoes
RIYL: late-era Talk Talk jamming with Calexico, the unfulfilled life that flickers on the eyelids at night Weary, cold, and alone but not dead, we soldier on under the half-light to some place on the horizon, anyplace really, as the[…]
FH056 Ak’chamel The Giver of Illness – The Man Who Drank God
RIYL: generally friendly cult acolytes, Popul Vuh heard through a shortwave radio A local Cthulhu cult, maybe American Southwest. Their campfires are dim against the black, pinprick sky, the void which their voices yearn to command, yet also from which[…]
FH055 The Snowfields – How To Get Good Sound From A Dead Ear
RIYL: postrock electronica with a whiff of 70’s Constellation aftershave The first Snowfields album in 7 years is a sublime affair, sounding like a missing album from Julian Cope’s Krautrock Sampler or Obscured By Clouds/More-era Pink Floyd hitting the Serengetti[…]
FH053 Brainchai/Ilkae “Athena”
RIYL: cyberpunk geriatric sex scenes, the soundtrack of the burning of a slot car race track The second split ever from Field Hymns brings the crackling 8-bit EDM of Eirik Suhrke (Brainchai) and Montreal’s Aaron Munson (Ilkae) to the shores[…]
FH054 Millions – Line In The Sky
RIYL: experimental ambient drone, a omni-present feeling of lurking danger David Suss (Millions) uses Thomas Pynchon’s “Against The Day” as inspiration for this 4 track suite. Eschewing the traditional post-rock build-up, he kicks off this broad, tense piece with a[…]