Category: Magazine Sixty reviews
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with f5point6
Greg Fenton reviews f5point6 – In Retrospect – See Blue Audio Listening without thinking, feeling, or engaging your imagination is unthinkable when traversing the landscapes of sound created by f5point6. This compilation collates and celebrates a selection of the artist’s finest work for See Blue Audio, which incidentally spans the last six years. Time frames…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with JL Segel
Greg Fenton reviews JL Segel – Fog – Self Release Mentioning the word ambient or music closely associated with the genre may feel like we’ve all been here before, conjuring soft, rolling landscapes unfolding across the space between the speakers and summoning a quiet intensity stirring emotions from deep within. Or something resembling that experience.…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Truus de Groot
Greg Fenton reviews Truus de Groot presents Plus Instruments – Unnoticed – Ransom Note Unnoticed is the sound of history filtered through a contemporary lens. The audio feels like a classic collection of electronic machines plugged into a bright future of storytelling that never fails to excite expectations. In so many ways, the album feels…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with David Moore
Greg Fenton reviews David Moore – Graze the Bell – RVNG Intl. Listening to David Moore play the piano is like a warm embrace gathering pace. Filtered through the lens of moments flickering across a past screening of events, while seeds are planted firmly in the here and now. Not living life in the moment,…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Musik Music Musique: The Rise Of Synth Pop 1979
Greg Fenton reviews Various Artists – Musik Music Musique: The Rise Of Synth Pop 1979 – Cherry Red Records The question is: why wouldn’t you love this collection of The Rise Of Synth Pop 1979? Such a brilliant year in music from all corners, including the bit after Punk’s initial, exciting flair, to Two Tone…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Viclan
Greg Fenton reviews Viclan – Checking In – R&S Records Calvin Whittaker’s deeply informed, deceptively intricate Checking In repeatedly slices speech, looping it into a frenzy of delicious/delirious possibility. Reminiscent of Steve Reich’s It’s Gonna Rain from 1965 in the way music evolves and reinvents itself over time, it likewise begins at one point and…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Khadija
Greg fenton reviews Khadija – Dunya I’ EP – REK’D Dreaming IS EVERYTHING AND MORE. Formed around a blissful execution of modular, electronically charged tones, the pulse of rhythmic arrival soon evolves with the addition of a chorus of heavenly voices, a timely elevation provided by strings, and the voiced question inherent in the title:…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Strangebird~Sounds
Greg Fenton reviews Strangebird~Sounds – Minerals From the Crust – Audiobulb Records Sometimes music doesn’t always suggest a direct answer to the question being posed. Minerals From the Crust is as much about tuning in as it is about letting go. It remains, however, an involving, welcoming listen, as if the keys were being played…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with TUCCI
Greg Fenton reviews TUCCI – Buggin’ – Trick Great release from TUCCI, whose crisp production values are deeply ingrained within the title track, Buggin’, delivering an escapade full of energetic vitality alongside an escape route into the unknown. It’s more than the expertly crafted thumping drums and bassline, as the spoken words reveal an altogether…