In “Woolf,” the third single from Pale Bloom, Lucy Kruger conjures a haunting journey across time, memory, and voice. The track begins with a tentative, halting voice stepping into a river, gradually swelling into a polyphonic chorus that seems to absorb echoes of voices from the past. It crescendos into a soaring, prophetic refrain—Heaven is…
In the The Lost Boys’ latest single Anchor, Lucy Kruger – in soft staccato – blends the mnemonic features of childhood song with yearning. Though the scaffolding of the track is a cleverly co-opted nostalgia, it is lifted free from a saccharine past by the exhaling viola, short searing guitar and Kruger’s specific and startling…
Heaving, the first musical departure from Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys’ recent tape series, is a vivid, visceral, and unbounded exploration of sonic storytelling. Relying on the idea articulated by poet and essayist Anne Carson that “every sound we make is a bit of autobiography. It has a totally private interior, yet its…
Ambient art-pop ensemble Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys create music that is full of atmosphere and intensity. Based in Berlin, the band is led by South African born artist Lucy Kruger. Today sees the release of their new single and title track from upcoming album Heaving, out on the 7th April 2023 via Unique…
The Last Black Flower the new album from Soothsayer Orchestra, the one-man project of Dutch experimentalist Pieter Hendriks, out today via Lay Bare Recordings. Pieter is a musical solitudinarian who has enough gumption to leave the commonplace behind and only take with him what can enrich his music and performance. There is a certain weight…
Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys are an art pop ambient noise band based in Berlin. The group, fronted by South African born artist, Lucy Kruger, create music that is full of atmosphere and intensity. In April 2022 the band released, ‘Teen Tapes (for performing your stunts)’ – a follow up to their previous record…
A scorching soundtrack for the season in which the darkness supersedes the light, “THE THREE MOTHERS” is an initiated call to action for the exploration of our own villain, with no frail hopes for redemption. “THE THREE MOTHERS” bore its roots several years ago as a few disjointed keyboard-based loops in the Brooklyn apartment of…
Nathaniel Shannon and The Vanishing Twin is an experimental dark folk project and the creation of Detroit-bred and Brooklyn based photographer and multimedia artist Nathaniel Shannon. Today sees the release of his spooky video for Mater Suspiriorum. The song is taken from THE THREE MOTHERS, out on US based label Aqualamb, the second video from…
“The eternal question of what happens when we die… Is it just the end? O a new beginning? The answer will be made know to all of us one day… until then… Mystified.” Cape Town based psychedelic noise-mongers Filthy Hippies have released the video for their new single Mystified. Formed in 2018, the trio quickly…
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