Articles by Bryon Hayes

Errorsmith
Superlative Fatigue
PUBLISHED Oct 16, 2017
A robot stutters rhythmically amidst a flurry of synthetic drums as "Lightspeed" brings Superlative Fatigue, Erik Wiegand's first full-leng...
Chihei Hatakeyama
Mirage
PUBLISHED Sep 11, 2017
The ambient songs produced by Tokyo musician Chihei Hatakeyama each project a unique spatiotemporal presence; their haziness conjures a mem...
Fat Worm of Error
Nzznzzzznnznznnn
PUBLISHED Aug 11, 2017
The costumed five-piece from Western Massachusetts known as Fat Worm of Error flailed about chaotically for pretty much the entire first de...
Nmesh
Pharma
PUBLISHED Aug 4, 2017
Pharma is Alex Koenig's debut outing for the Orange Milk label, the culmination of a steady stream of hallucinatory releases that seem to o...
OOIOO
Gold & Green
PUBLISHED Jul 28, 2017
This 2017 reissue of OOIOO's should-be classic prog-psych masterpiece Gold & Green is the first time that the entire album is available on...
Tomutonttu
Kevätjuhla
PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2017
Sprouting from the fertile Finnish psychedelic underground, Jan Anderzén's music has always been sui generis, transcending the "forest folk...
Broken English Club
The English Beach
PUBLISHED Jun 8, 2017
The desert-like headland of Dungeness acts as the muse for producer Oliver Ho's latest LP, fittingly titled The English Beach. Recorded whi...
Julia Bloop
Roland Throop
PUBLISHED Jun 7, 2017
Named after a pair of enigmatic low-frequency sounds that originated in the depths of the Pacific Ocean, the mysterious Julia Bloop project...