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The song begins like the end of a flood, with a low and peaceful exhale. When it recedes, it leaves chimes dancing on the floor. Call me crazy, but an image of a person with countless eyes appears, gliding inches above an endless stretch of broken glass. The sky is void of light and color.…

Maggi Payne’s “Lunar Dusk”(with a nearly 8-minute run time) was included in a 1979 Museum of Modern Art exhibit showcasing “sound art” – a term which seems to still lack solid identity today. This song was released on vinyl in 1980 through Lovely Little Records in an “experimental” music anthology, including John Bischoff, “Blue” Gene…

Is there some concrete theory to prove that the second songs on albums are particularly good? “Taizee” by Woo, wraps the listener in a half-medieval-sounding blanket of tinny strings. A possibly more attractive way to imagine this song is as some interlude on a Shin’s album. It is simple, but its lovely sway (guided by…

This song, the second on Rousay’s 2021 album, a softer focus, is tough to detach from. “discrete (the market)” ends with the listener falling down a thin, high-pitched tunnel to a an easy but ominous vibration, which is the doorway to the next track, “peak chrome.” It begins a million miles away, with rapid clicks…