Urban Exploration Soundtracks
Pitchfork Review: "Twine's compositions sound like careful reconstructions of the decayed. A mix of twitching electronics, long, semi-coherent samples, and lapping melodic figures, Violets suggests painting a wall to peel or building stairs to creak."
2. Last Days: These Places Are Now Ruins (on iTunes)
Coke Machine Glow Review: If nostalgia is the playground of the defeated, then lamentation is the purview of the orator. And the orator is himself eulogized by absence and ambience -- spectral traces of what were once vivid declarations from the decks of aircraft carriers. These Places Are Now Ruins is gloomy, is beautiful...
3. Lights Out Asia: Eyes Like Brontide (on iTunes)
Sputnik Music Review: Lights Out Asia mesmerizes to the point of total submersion, as they envelop the listener in a cold, desolate atmosphere that, despite its obviously foreboding nature, is completely arresting. Eyes Like Brontide puts itself firmly in the throes of the Cold War (the obvious examples of that being song titles like "The Wrong Message Could End You" and "Radars Over the Ghosts of Chernobyl") and somehow makes the concept completely engaging.