First Quest: The Music By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • December 11th, 2023 There is always some new relic to haul up from the pits of the earth.
Casting Deep Meteo Grails Scores the Theater of the Mind By Levi Rubeck • December 8th, 2023 More than curtains cut for mood or ambience, Anches en Maat begs the listener to simmer in their own headspace for a while.
Beyond Structures World’s End Girlfriend Composes Requiems For The End of Days By Khee Hoon Chan • December 7th, 2023 The music of World’s End Girlfriend, thankfully, resists the dichotomy of heightened emotional stakes versus the subdued lull of post-rock. Thus his melodies hardly, if ever, collapse under their immensity.
Rookie of the Year My Rich Life By Matt Marrone • December 7th, 2023 What is your rich life? The answer, we quickly learn, is different for everyone.
Interlinked Personal Emergence By Phoenix Simms • December 6th, 2023 Games are often, especially at the AAA level, power or pleasure simulators.
A Scene That Defies Belief: Godzilla Minus One (2023) By Orrin Grey • December 5th, 2023 As with Shin Godzilla, this is an attempt to return to Godzilla’s roots as a purely destructive force. There is no way in which this Godzilla is a “good guy,” even as roundaboutly as the one from the MonsterVerse films.
Past Presence Jenny from Thebes Review By Emily Price • December 5th, 2023 Jenny from Thebes is trying harder than maybe any previous album to create a specific place, but it still feels unmoored, somewhere between Greece and Austin.
The Marvelous Children of Inang-Uri By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • December 4th, 2023 Imagine riding a horse. Now imagine the horse is the size of the whole world.
Exploits Feature Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special By Sara Clemens • December 1st, 2023 It took me 19 years to listen to the commentary tracks for Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special, a show I’ve watched at least once a year for the past 35.
Fun in N-dimensions By Jonathan Fenn • December 1st, 2023 The ever-expanding world of space-twisting puzzlers offer captivating worlds not possible outside of videogames.