One minute, delicate, ethereal pop music. The next, a blitzkrieg of sound, albeit sound arranged in the form of more pop music. It’s not for nothing that Broken Social Scene are ridiculously hyped. Their music is straightforward and immensely complex all at once, as they layer instrument over instrument on what is, […]

Decomposure’s 2004 debut Taking Things Apart was a fresh take on the IDM genre, an entire electronica album devoid of synthesizers and filled with common sounds, highlighted by “Matches (Extended Mix),” a track composed exclusively of sounds made by matches. On At Home and Unaffected, Caleb Mueller (the man behind Decomposure) expands on the […]

Frodus may have helped pioneer the “spazzcore” genre with their earlier releases, including the solid Tooth and Nail release Conglomerate International, but it would be a stretch to pigeonhole their final album, And We Washed Our Weapons In The Sea, in such a narrow style. On And We Washed Our Weapons In The […]

Just seconds into the first song on Mutations, it becomes clear that this album is nothing like Beck’s previous hit, Odelay. Odelay was a genius mix of electronic and rock music, of hip-hop and white boy, and of as many disparate elements as Beck could find. Mutations is both much more subdued, and […]