Levi Dayan

4 weeks ago | thequietus.com | Jennifer Lucy Allan |Bobby Barry |Levi Dayan

Drag City It’s been such a long time since Eiko Ishibashi produced the kind of leftfield pop music that her early solo work centered around, you might have assumed she was finished with the medium. She’s covered a lot of ground since then. Her previous release in this vein, 2018’s The Dream My Bones Dream, felt like a towering achievement, a stunningly multifaceted meditation on time and memory inspired by the passing of her father and his family’s history in the imperial Japanese puppet...

1 month ago | thequietus.com | Daryl Worthington |Bobby Barry |Levi Dayan

thrill jockey Longtime collaborators and kindred spirits More Eaze and Claire Rousay seem to embody a select group of internet-era musicians who have actually made good out of an unprecedented access to music, where so much work is detached from its context and sense of purpose. Their music reflects their rich background in experimental music, but it’s also informed by slowcore, indie folk, ambient and emo. These are all genres that can often be dismissed as having a suffocating sense of...

1 month ago | thequietus.com | Bobby Barry |Levi Dayan

Over the course of his forty-plus years career in music, David Grubbs stands out as sort of an unlikely journeyman. His work spans the sweaty post-hardcore of early band Squirrel Bait, the radical experiments of his highly influential group Gastr Del Sol, and the deconstructed singer-songwriter music of his early solo work.

2 months ago | thequietus.com | Bobby Barry |Levi Dayan

Ideologic Organ The 2020s have proven to be fruitful years for the continuing deconstruction of the electric guitar. Musicians such as Ava Mendoza, Chuck Roth, Wendy Eisenberg and others have emerged from various different corners of the music world, each offering their own perspective on the question of what role the fabled instrument plays in an ever-changing landscape. Does analogue guitar sorcery still hold any water in a laptop-driven experimental music world? Has non-idiomatic guitar...

Dec 10, 2024 | thequietus.com | Bobby Barry |Levi Dayan

It often feels as though we are living in a golden age of glitched out ambient music, as evidenced by the work of artists such as Ulla and KMRU. It’s difficult to imagine this present musical landscape without the work of one Christian Fennesz, who along with other artists on the Mego and Mille Plateaux labels helped pioneer the usage of the laptop as a musical instrument.