Moods

The début album and its title track by this Swedish musician and composer opts to create expansive soundscapes using lesser used traditional instrumentation, and for me is a relatively new listening experience.

Having had interactions with members of this band over the years — whether it’s being in the same tour van or in friendship — here’s look at an interesting track from an incredibly underrated post-industrial album Ugashia by the this group formed in London UK out another group, Noi Kabát.

The first album by English dream/jangle pop band Felt — and more specifically this track — has been an occasional hazy weekend favourite since discovering it well over 20 years ago.

A great track by this Vancouver-based synth alchemist (and a friend of mine from back in the day) from his latest album Myth And Murmur — one full of lush, electronic kosmische soundscapes.

A dark, psychedelic cosmic burner that “out-goths” a lot of goth music out there, courtesy of one of the many projects that emerged out of the ashes of the seminal midwest US post-hardcore group Slint.

A key track for me by this cult and obscure Scottish multi-disciplinary artist Pinkie Maclure from her 1985 album Unman, a release of fascinating experimental post-punk, drone and industrial tracks.

From the band’s groundbreaking 1982 self-titled release, “NCR” merges post-punk attitude with rhythmic electronics in a tense, sombre yet serene tone and has been a favourite for a long time.

The track “Sojourn” US electronic artist Mark Lane‘s 1984 release Who’s Really Listening? builds up into something glorious.

A look at one of my fave tracks from the album The Absence Of A Canary (1981) by Canadian electronic duo Ceramic Hello and how I came to find it.

World Of Rubber by UK post-punk duo Second Layer was lucky find from many years ago, and its closing track “Black Flowers” a moody fave.

Now for an artist I don’t know much about: Ziggurath and his most recently released album of fantasy-tinges ambiences, True North (2024).

“Wheel Of Earth” is a track from one of several early cassette releases that came out in the early 80s from American sound composer Robert Rich.

The holiday season is here and for various reasons I sort of singled out Mick Karn‘s 1982 album Titles as one to soundtrack the festive period.

A magical, icy instrumental number called “Dark River” from Coil‘s third album, Love’s Secret Domain, that has had some lasting power for me.

With the atmosphere of winter kicking in, a re-listen of the work of American composer and sound artist Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe seemed in order.

In discovering a number of soundtrack pieces for giallo films, this uneasy short piece by Italian composer Riz Ortolani came to my attention.

A revisit to the one and only LP by Regulator Watts (ex-Hoover), a record I hadn’t listened to in over two decades. Atmospheric and dark post-hardcore.

A hidden atmospheric number from the second side of “Yinglish”, the fourth and final collaboration of German musicians Gina X and Zeus Beheld.

A track by Caroline K with a solemn, Gregorian quality about it, including subtle shifts in phrasing and chords that each shift sort of changes the audio “colour”.