Author: mike

Mark Van Hoen at Big Takeover

This London-based ambient electronica artist, AKA Locust, has covered a lot of stylistic ground in his career. This time he’s made a synth-heavy valentine to the spacier side of Krautrock (explicitly on “Froese Requiem I &II,” for Tangerine Dream mastermind Edgar Froese, who died earlier this year). Slowly swooshing melodies intertwine with percolating patterns, occasional… Continue reading Mark Van Hoen at Big Takeover

Mark Van Hoen at All Music

Nightvision is Mark Van Hoen‘s first album under his birth name since the preceding The Revenant Diary in 2012 — the producer issued You’ll Be Safe Forever (2013) and After the Rain (2014) asLocust. During that time, Van Hoen was involved with Children of the Stones and Black Hearted Brother, rather disparate and more collaborative… Continue reading Mark Van Hoen at All Music

Mark Van Hoen at Stuff to Blow Your Mind

We’re about to break for Thanksgiving here at STBYM, so how about a little Space Music? First up, electronic music veteran Mark Van Hoen just released his new album “Nightvision” on Saint Marie Records. If you’re not familiar with Hoen (or his work under the moniker “Locust”), then I can’t recommend his gloriously organic, time-traveling… Continue reading Mark Van Hoen at Stuff to Blow Your Mind

Mark Van Hoen at Raised By Gypsies

It doesn’t take a lot of musical knowledge or technical terms in your head to have heard music been referred to as created by composers before, but I truly feel as if Mark Van Hoen takes the term “composer” to a whole new level.    Every song is, essentially, composed by someone but not every… Continue reading Mark Van Hoen at Raised By Gypsies

Stutter Steps at Did Not Chart

This album is gloriously crisp and sweetly melodic. It’s got Big Star’s jangling desperation (every last song), Quasi’s quirky keyboard stylings (Backyard Charm), and country-rock melancholy (Go On). Stutter Steps jangle incessantly with, you know, proper guitar solos right through this album like only The Bats can do. They trade in neat psychedelic tricks (Jeff… Continue reading Stutter Steps at Did Not Chart

Static Daydream at Pequenos Classicos Perdidos

Paul Baker é um dos sujeitos que mais respeito no universo do rock. Esse respeito e uma enorme admiração vem de vários anos atrás, quando ao lado dos igualmente respeitados e admirados Oliver Ackermann e John Fedowitz fundou o Skywave, banda responsável por trazer de volta à tona, nos anos 2000, a barulheira shoegaze dos… Continue reading Static Daydream at Pequenos Classicos Perdidos