Isolation Noir – SPC ECO’s “Anomalies”
Take your mallrat pop and feed it through a grown-up’s modulator programmed for the darkest shiniest...
Author: Dave Cantrell
STEREO EMBERS EXCLUSIVE PREMIER – Stream SPC ECO’s new album “Anomalies” PLUS read a track-by-track breakdown from band members Dean Garcia & Rose Berlin
As the legendary PR guy (and label owner, store owner, festival organizer, and, we dunno, wizard?)...
STEREO EMBERS EXCLUSIVE PREMIER – Title track from Allyson Seconds’ upcoming second album “Little World,” produced by Anton Barbeau
Like any group of sanely insane music freaks, hearing of a project that involves eccentric and...
Such is the Facility of Her Gifts – “Impossible Dream” by Haley Bonar
Walking quietly, with no less an indomitable force of spirit or voice, through a door most...
Playing with a Different Sense and Sensuality – Belgrado’s “Obraz”
Whereas we’d much rather forego the inclination to cite likely – or even unintentional – influences...
SHADOWPLAY: A Post-Punk, Darkwave Overview – MAYFLOWER MADAME “Observed in a Dream,” RAKTA “III,” DYNAMMO “Eter”
We begin in a chamber of noise, nightmarish but not oppressively so. It’s a track called...
Making the Downtempo Look Up from Here – “666” by Sugar Candy Mountain
There’s a lot of it about these days. Neo-psych seems to come spinning kaliedoscopically out of...
Tensile, Elemental, Crucial – 50 Foot Wave’s “Bath White”
“I think she’s one of our most important songwriters.” So said I to my then-girlfriend in...
From the Sylph Hands of Teenage Prodigies – “I, Gemini” by Let’s Eat Grandma
I’ve seldom felt so remiss. As I begin writing this review it’s been three weeks to...
2016’s Grim Harvest Continues – RIP Suicide/proto-punk pioneer Alan Vega
This year is mortifying us, in every way. Stereo Embers is saddened to report that Alan...