SoundCloud Gems: Basement Tapes
Oh, hello, surfer rock. You don’t sound like the Beach Boys? Awesome…My latest in 303 Magazine features L.A.’s Basement Tapes.
SoundCloud Gems: Anomie Belle
Check it—my latest in 303 Magazine features Seattle songstress, Anomie Belle. If trip hop or post-rock or dark synth has a place in your music library, you’ll probably dig Anomie Belle. She’s toured with Tricky, Little Dragon, and The Album Leaf and collaborated with a bunch of others, so she most definitely deserves a listen.
SoundCloud Gems: Proofsound
American Beauty was not so mesmerizing for its story so much as for Thomas Newman’s score : a sublime auricular dance that transformed a story of one man’s suburban midlife crisis into something surreal, arousing, and cataclysmic. The music, alone, told a story without needing aid of a moving image. It is this experience–expressing the story without the picture–that Denmark’s Proofsound has accomplished…
SoundCloud Gems: Baukhol
During a late-night jaunt on an interstate years ago, I tasted the first traces of music intoxication. The album was Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd and as physically lucid as I appeared, mentally I traveled somewhere else. A visceral connection with music is one thing, but rapture is something else–immobilizing, inflating, breathtaking. No matter what the tune, its ability to remove you from your current surroundings is paramount…
“Past Present Future” ~ Oliver Tank
The music of Oliver Tank is continually crushingly beautiful.
Source: SoundCloud / Oliver Tank
