Tag: Experimental Pop
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kruu – #CRUSHED (EP)
Sometimes when I’m looking for music, there are incredibly abstract things I go looking for that if I were to try and explain, would likely make me look like an insnae person. Music producers are the worst for this, asking for things like mixes to sound more chocolate (a real thing I observed once), and…
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THE ARCHIVE: han.irl<3 & Atlas In Motion – ih8usm!
AuraLink has a lot of moving parts, but truth be told it is mostly run off of peach Monster Energy, and han.irl<3. It is no exaggeration to say that Han’s catalog has been hugely important to the existence of AuraLink, in fact her current long-term album rollout was a huge reason I wanted to get…
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THE ARCHIVE: iglooghost – Spawn01 ft. Cyst
Sometimes when it rains, it pours. And when it’s raining toxic creatures from the depths of the ocean, it… Well to be honest I’m not sure what it does then, but that’s the conditions under which iglooghost’s experimental masterpiece Tidal Memory Exo was set. This album was one of my top albums last year, and…
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THE ARCHIVE: TruePilot – Take Your Time
It is once again nepotism week at AuraLink! For disclosure sake, I am personal friends with TruePilot and have worked with him extensively in the past, but he doesn’t have the slightest clue that I’m writing this at 4 in the morning on a Wednesday, and that’s because I’m doing it purely because I am…
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THE ARCHIVE: MADI – HORROR NITE
The biggest issue with developing obscenely specific and niche taste in music is that by doing so you have made it so, so so so so unreasonably hard to find new things within that niche. As someone with a weekly ritual to find new music you’d think maybe I’d be exempt from that proble, but…
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fawn burke – pay2play
Let’s get a little abrasive. Maybe it’s the part of me that was buying skilled on iTunes in middle school, but to this day there’s still something about a caustic synth lead that hits my brain in all the right ways. It’s part of what’s kept me so engaged with the post-hyperpop/experimental pop space as…
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Julia Alexa – die for you
I know we live in a pretty miserable time right now, but I still can’t help but love music built from the darker corners of the human experience. Nothing brings me more joy and excitement than hearing a track for the first time that’s drenched in tasteful distortion and a rumbling sub bass, and luckily…
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GENRES ARE FAKE AND THATS OK
The worst part about telling people I write about music is that they ask what kind of music I write about. It’s not like it’s a complicated question, but it’s a question that if I give an honest answer to nobody will understand what I mean. As it turns out the average person doesn’t know…
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THE ARCHIVE: sennoh – same but different* (1+2)
My favourite party trick is that I can make decent estimates on how old someone is based on what their all-time favourite pop songs are. It’s not a particularly useful skill, but it’s occasionally quite fun when you clock someone to a tee because they talk about how much they love The Black Eyed Peas.…
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Music is doing that thing where we all evolve into crabs
Would you believe me if I said I have a convoluted way of making that unhinged clickbait headline make sense with real examples? As crazy as it may sound, I think underground music is undergoing a process known as carcinization, which is the theory that all species are convergently evolving into crabs. Now, don’t get…