EAR INFLUXION

Words about electronic & experimental music

SINCE 2010

Bowery Electric: “Under the Sun” (Beat, Kranky 1996)Still an underrated classic by my own standards, Bowery Electric’s Beat is a long-time favorite. They never quite got their due, and I’ve always...

Odd Nosdam: “Profane Bong Sue” (Sisters, Leaving 2016)This vid’s psychedelic trails are an appropriate accompaniment to Odd Nosdam’s signature downtempo haze.(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Walls: “Ecstatic Truth” (Coracle, Kompakt 2011)Right now, in the throes of one of the rainiest seasons in Portland in some time, Walls’ 2011 album Coracle is shining down some much needed...

Belong: “I Never Lose. Never Really” (October Language, Carpark 2006)Belong’s earlier music glides by like a diffuse cloud of sound. I liken it to the down-the-corridor washed out sound of early...

Lovesliescrushing: “RHUV” (Chorus + 3, Line 2010)Lovesliescrushing were one of the first artists that really leaped out at me from Projekt Records’ discography in the mid 90s, so it’s nice to see...

Blanck Mass: Dumb Flesh (Sacred Bones)The latest solo outing from Fuck Buttons’ Benjamin John Power comes some time after his debut album under the name. While his first album was fine...

Trentemøller featuring Low: “The Dream” (Lost, 2013) Generally I preferred Anders Trentemøller’s music up to the point that he started steering his attention far away from the...

John Lemke: Walizka (Denovali) Glasgow-based composer John Lemke’s EP starts with a delicate, jaunty piano number that almost inspires dance, with a tiny oompah in its bass clef and tiny...

John Lemke: Walizka (Denovali) Glasgow-based composer John Lemke’s EP starts with a delicate, jaunty piano number that almost inspires dance, with a tiny oompah in its bass clef and tiny...

My Bloody Valentine: “Soon” (Loveless, 1991) It’s been a hectic several weeks, and I’m just finishing up some fairly extended travel to family and friends. There’s no...

My Bloody Valentine: “Soon” (Loveless, 1991) It’s been a hectic several weeks, and I’m just finishing up some fairly extended travel to family and friends. There’s no...

The Cure: “Pornography” (Pornography, Elektra/Fiction 1982) The closing title track on The Cure’s 1982 blacker-than-black masterpiece remains one of their darkest moments....

The Cure: “Pornography” (Pornography, Elektra/Fiction 1982) The closing title track on The Cure’s 1982 blacker-than-black masterpiece remains one of their darkest moments....

Birds of Passage: This Kindly Slumber (Denovali) Alicia Merz’s third album as Birds of Passage is haunting and ghostly, much like her faint voice murmuring through a wall of effects....

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