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[…]
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FH052 Grapefruit – Some New-Age Bullshit
RIYL: Tangerine Dream scoring a Ken Burns documentary Back for his sophomore release for Field Hymns, Charlie Salas-Humara (Panther/The Planet The/Sun Angle) doubles down on the Krautrock spiritual tribalism that made the first album so captivating and pushes the project[…]
FH051 Go No Go For Launch – Re-Entry
RIYL: inspirational zinger music from the Live at 5 Action News Team I first heard this album in 2006 when Randall Taylor (Graveyard Orbit) sent a demo to a label I was working for. I can honestly say that when[…]
FH049 Strategy – Cerebral Hut AKA Off The Grid
RIYL: Table top electronics, the plulsing of liquid circuits, sleepover party with the Daleks Strategy is not generally known for his ambient work, but the genre provides a window to the many disparate influences marking his talent. This skill-set is[…]
FH050 Sad Horse – Purple On Purple Makes Purple
RIYL: early Pavement, Pussy Galore, a controlled sense of fuckall & abandon On this Cassette Store Day 2014, it brings us great fucking pleasure to release on tape for the first time a favorite record of ours and hopefully a[…]
FH048 Portopia ’81 – Stardust Memory
RIYL: library music, swinging organ, the warm smell of tubes and cigarette smoke The project Portopia ’81 is named after an expo in Kobe from that year but its heart is more bound to 1961. Mizuhiro’s vision of a space-bound[…]
FH047 Conrad Wedde – Space World
RIYL: Subtropical meridians, Peter Gabriel’s better moods, a nice stoned dawn Recorded in a small room in Dunedin, New Zealand, SPACE WORLD encompasses the breadth of the southern hemisphere in its brief span of 27 minutes. The texture of bamboo[…]
FH044-046 Yves Malone – Three Movies: Abysscoteque, The ECHO People, Zenith City
RIYL: dark action soundtracks to 80’s movies, darkwave, synthwave, outrun Treading in the realm of synth soundscape artists like Perturbator, Umberto, and Gianni Rossi, Yves Malone diverges, reveling in the scenes between scenes, the sketch of a little moment rather than the[…]
FH043 German Army – Tassili Plateau
RIYL: Cabaret Voltaire, Psychic TV, sacred geology, Chariots of the Gods, autochthonous audiology Enigmatic California duo German Army creates often-portentous music illuminated by fading cultural voices and barren, shifting lands. Following a dizzying array of tapes, CDs and LPs in[…]
FH042 Scammers – Cover you
RIYL: The Juan MacLean, Soft Cell, David Bowie, Hot Chip, The Presets, Scott Walker Scammers is the man who puts ice to your your chest after a five hour rave. Scammers is the man who fills your coffee order at[…]
FH040 Black Unicorn – Traced Landscapes
RIYL: Tangerine Dream, Daphne Oram, Cluster, Kosmische, Radiophonic Workshop Traced Landscapes is the law of correspondence seen from the rear view mirror of a departing space shuttle. A record of the parallel grown between macroscopic and microscopic in the basic[…]
FH041 Cane Swords – Temple Swords
RIYL: Morton Subotnick, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Golden Retriever, Caboladies Akron, Ohio synthesists Cane Swords return to ultra-terrestrial form with an analog odyssey of planetary drift and tindered timbre to fuel interstellar craft seeking deep space revelation. Washes of infinite blue[…]
FH039 Mattress – Fuck The Future
RIYL: Nick Cave, Suicide, Dirty Beaches Portland Oregon’s reigning king of white-velvet doom returns with a sixer of vile yearnings and throbbing confessions. Gritty analog drum machines and flabby baselines drenched in reverb fill holes in the body formally filled[…]
FH038 Oxykitten – Escape From New Amsterdam
RIYL: Dr. Octagon, Add N To X, minimal synth Slow, dark and brooding are the streets in New Amsterdam – gangs run everything, law is dead, people are terrified and the awful heat of summer will not abate in this[…]
FH037 Lazercrotch – Gemini Air Systems
RIYL: dancing robot Prince clones, Flogsta Dancehall, chiptune sex tapes Field Hymns’ first proper skweee release, Gemini Air Systems is a swanky sexpot in a velvet analog robe billowing funk like an angry love cyclone. Somewhere in the distance, in[…]
FH036 Giant Claw – Impossible Chew
RIYL: b-roll stinger music from the depths of heck, a video game induced panic attack The sunrise dawns over an earlier Miami, black-purple turning to pink then to yellow-white as flamingos stretch and go about their morning, poking around the[…]
FH035 PLVS VLTRA – Yo-Yo Blue
RIYL: Alog, Bjork, Brigitte Fontaine, The Focus Group Rippling like a thumbed-through flip book of vaporous, hazy memories or maybe like a box of old photos left to the devices of the wind, Yo-Yo Blue feels like a curated tour[…]
FH034 Cremator – Alpha Ralpha Boulevard
RIYL: Heldon, Tonto’s Expanding Head Band, John Carpenter Cremator’s new album title comes from a tale about a sudden, radical shift from a controlling, benevolent, and sterile society to one of individuality and danger ruled by an elite group called[…]
FH033 Black Hat – Covalence
RIYL: Tim Hecker, Mouse on Mars, Loscil The voices of futures past howl through PNG files of grass and waterfalls – thumping and thrumming, bumping and humming – but always subservient to the pulse. It’s a very pleasant factory where[…]
Oxykitten – Fugue State
Not technically a Field Hymns release but an offering from Oxykitten: “Fugue State is a collection of 4 and 8 track tape recordings from Oxykitten’s past. Previously floating around as the spirits of albums never requited, these killer but odd[…]
FH031/032 – The Cats’ Orchestra / Regular Music split
THE CATS’ ORCHESTRA – NO KEYS RIYL: Fonal Records, Kluster, early Kraftwerk + a touch of biscuit It’s just a normal night for The Cats’ Orchestra…somewhere else. The little factories hum, tiny drunks stumble home, miniature drive-ins play wee adventure[…]