Dark Morph - Dark Morph II

May 1, 2020

On the phone this week my mother told me that blue whales can fart a bubble big enough to contain a horse. I’m not sure if I believe her, but the logical child in me thinks it sounds plausible. A quick Google search elicits the fact …

Various Artists - Serenity Now, Insanity Later

May 1, 2020

Studio Barnhus’s May compilation Serenity Now, Insanity Later comes right in what we hope is the middle of a global pandemic and not the slow-creeping beginning. Already a difficult year, Serenity Now, Insanity Later aligns itself with …

Jónsi - Exhale

April 23, 2020

The year 2020 is a monstrous distortion of space time. We’re blazing a new trail we didn’t want to take and dragging the leaden sticks of our grief through the ground behind us to mark the way. The weather mocks us as the seasons …

Hodge - Shadows In Blue

April 17, 2020

After a brief respite from regularly scheduled releases, Bristolian Hodge aka Jake Martin has stepped forth with the product of two years of writing, recording, and growing. Shadows in Blue both marks Martin’s first full length album …

Jamie xx - Idontknow (3SR)

April 15, 2020

Jamie xx Smith has released a single piece of music amid the silence and the cacophony that has blanketed the world this spring. It exists in duality, wrinkled and starched, subtle and harsh, emotionally high and energetically …

The Strokes - The New Abnormal

April 10, 2020

The Strokes have come out with a new album. I forget what it’s called. Long-time fans that were still counting on them to make music will be thrilled. It’s exactly the Strokes but in the year 2020 instead of 2003. That’s a good track …

Axel Bowman - Eyes Of My Mind

April 10, 2020

One of Three at Studio Barnhus Axel Bowman has ventured inward to bring something outward, releasing Eyes Of My Mind alongside a visual collaboration with fellow Stockholm painter Malin Gabriella Nordin. The two part EP …

Purity Ring - Womb

April 3, 2020

A womb is in a constant cycle of expansion and contraction. It heightens your awareness of other patterns like the global weather, gravity’s pull on the oceans, the movement of the earth, the season’s effects on terrestrial life, your …

Yves Tumor - Heaven to a Tortured Mind

April 3, 2020

Yves Tumor, known also to people as Teams or Sean Bowie, has let loose their genre eschewing Heaven to a Tortured Mind. Embracing pop elements to weave an album of dark love languages, fans of Yves will recognize a penchant for …

Yaeji - WHAT WE DREW 우리가 그려왔던

April 2, 2020

We were all on board with the Yaeji craze when she first appeared on the scene a few years back. Her perspective as a female Korean American producer was exciting, her sound offered a new take on club music, and her lyrics …