Location Momentum Style: Drone / Minimalism Label: Touch Eleh was formed to specifically to pay tribute to early experimental minimalist pioneers Charlemagne Palestine, La Monte Young, Eliane Radigue & Pauline Oliveros as well as photographer Laszlo...

The Bern Project Style: Rock Minimalism Label: Hinterzimmer Rhys Chatham claims he hasn't made an album like The Bern Project since his Die Donnergotter work in the 80s. That bold statement only approximates the connection between the pioneer of...

Rock Dream Style: Heavy Psych / Noise / Doom Label: Southern Lord For starters, leave all expectations of what a(nother) collaboration between Boris and Merzbow might sound like, because Rock Dream is nothing like Sun Baked Snow Cave, which was...

Hex Style: Psych / Doom / Ambient Label: Southern Lord The German Lutheran and Swiss settlers of Pennsylvania’s formative period, like so many others before them, used geometric design to ape the celestial, the terrain, flora and fauna. The artistic...

The Violet Hour Style: Dream-Pop / Shoegaze Label: Merge The Clientele are an exercise in exquisitely crafted soporific nostalgia. For the last five years this London-based three-piece have been etching hazily melodic slices of guitar-pop in...