my favorite releases from february
& blooms captured on an evening walk
various artists – staying: leaving records aid to artists impacted by the los angeles wildfires
- technically released in january, but it was received and listened to in february
- beautiful combination of artists, lots of lovely ambient and electronic sounds
- variety, ebb and flow, from the bottom of the hill to the brightest peak, distilled wonderment
- favorite tracks (there are so many, here are a few): joyous dance ’82 (laraaji), ghostly (sharada shashidhar / caleb buchanan), culebra (sam wilkes), contour (david moses x tristan de liege), rest here (nailah hunter), and many more
oklou – choke enough
- music to skype your friends to in the early hours of the morning
- pixel games, typing on your ibook g3, pressing your face up to an led-lit fishtank
- favorite track(s): choke enough, ict, want to wanna come back
ichiko aoba – luminescent creatures
- a message from the ether, floating chiffon, water from the clearest river
- transcendent chamber arrangements, seamless vocals
- favorite track(s): aurora, luciférine
klein – thirteen sense
- dueling with shadow creatures, static on the box tv screen, obsidian mirrors
- ambient noise, walls of sound, metal-esque
- favorite track(s): role of fear, hard 2 kill vol 2
