Electric Sunset – “Electric Sunset”

Recorded with a variety of synthesizers, samplers, guitars and distaff tech, and of course Zwart’s own breathy, androgynous, choirboy lilt. It’s a rush of experience, impression, and memory, with clouds of shoegaze guitar boundaried by a much more certain Krautrockian groove. Electric Sunset is bereft of both the flirtations with dance culture so favored by [...]

The Cold Cave Interview

What happens when you lock a bunch of hardcore and noise musicians in a room? They make gothic music, of course! Wesley Eisold (formerly of American Nightmare), with assistance from Caralee McElroy (Xiu Xiu) and Dominick Fernow (Prurient), bashes out primitive, insanely catchy, dark electro in the vein of Joy Division, Blank Dogs, and Cabaret [...]