Nerthus – ‘Love Songs via Echlon’ – Eighth Tower Records Echelon was the codename for a global surveillance network developed during the Cold War by the Five Eyes alliance – the likely suspects of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. Originally designed to monitor Soviet military and diplomatic communications, it evolved into […]
Sonologyst – Planetarium Cold Spring Records Ah, to be floating, gliding, soaring through the silent everlastingness of outer space. Or, as the latest album from Sonologyst makes clear, the incredibly ominous, doom-laden rumble through the blackness. If NASA ever needed a house band for the heat death of the universe, Sonologyst would be first on […]
Unchained from the formalities of guitar, drums, bass, and vocals, Thomas Doyle – Tad – is a new beast entirely. Onto his seventh full-length release, there is even greater confidence in his doomy instrumental tracks, with the heaviness of his own historical output, the mathematical exactness of premium post-rock, and the otherworldly unease of experimental […]
