ON THE FRINGES OF SOUND

Shining a Light on the Otherwise Obscure.

Welcome to the Fringes. We're bloggers dedicated to covering independent ambient, downtempo, IDM, neoclassical, and other music that isn't mainstream. New reviews are posted every week and we love hearing from artists, labels, and readers.

Rob Benny

Dec 30, 2020
2 min

Lunaria - Asphodel Meadows

Lunaria is the brainchild of Zaragoza, Spain native Daniel Guillén. A Classically trained Pianist and graduate in Hispanic Philology, he...

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Rob Benny

Dec 29, 2020
2 min

Sigvard - “Remembrance”

Sigvard (Nicke Sigvard Holgersson) is a musician from Stockholm, Sweden. Brought up in a family where his parents and siblings were also...

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Lars Haur

Dec 25, 2020
3 min

Cucurbitophobia - Solstice: An Odyssey Through Seasons and Cyclical Successions

Cucurbitophobia’s newest album, Solstice: An Odyssey Through Seasons and Cyclical Successions, is on one hand an unexpected change from...

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Lars Haur

Dec 23, 2020
2 min

Seffi Starshine - A Very Danish Paulstretch Christmas Vol. 1, 2, & 3

Christmas is a weird time for experimental music. The musical attention of most people is fixed entirely on “classic” Christmas songs and...

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Rob Benny

Dec 22, 2020
3 min

Marcelo Armani - Thanks for the Photosynthesis

Marcelo Armani (aka. Elefante Branco) is an Experimental multi-instrumentalist, composer, sound artist, and composer based in Canoas,...

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Rob Benny

Dec 22, 2020
2 min

Stephen Weber - "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel"

Stephen Weber is a composer, pianist, organist and Doctor of Fine Arts based in Chickasha, Oklahoma. He has recorded and released a...

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Rob Benny

Dec 21, 2020
1 min

Sunwarper - "Moonwashed"

Sunwarper is a Los Angeles based Atmospheric Electronic music project. The brainchild of multi-talented musician Michael Jakucs, he...

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Lars Haur

Dec 18, 2020
2 min

Steve Hadfield - Displacement Activity Vol. 3

Released in early November on the See Blue Audio label, Steve Hadfield’s Displacement Activity Vol. 3 is a strange and oddly comforting...

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Lars Haur

Dec 16, 2020
2 min

Leaving Richmond - Visions

Visions is the latest album from Leaving Richmond, a project by Los Angeles producer Jordan Pier. On this album, Pier combines a variety...

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Rob Benny

Dec 14, 2020
3 min

Colonial Skyway - Landline

Formed by Wisconsin based musician and sound artist Matt Anderson, Colonial Skyway is an Ambient Drone project. Released on September...

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Rob Benny

Dec 14, 2020
2 min

Francesca Heart - Ianassa Alga Miraggio

Francesca Mariano, professionally known as Francesca Heart, is a movement-and-sound artist based in Milan, Italy. According to her...

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Lars Haur

Dec 11, 2020
2 min

Listener Depleted - You Slept, I Didn’t

Released in mid-November, Listener Depleted’s latest album is an emotional and heartfelt journey down one artist’s memory lane. Combining...

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Lars Haur

Dec 9, 2020
2 min

The Billows Burn Bright - The Philosophers Are Dead

Philosophy has always been more than an interest to me, so much so that I actually got a degree in this (what is typically considered...

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Rob Benny

Dec 8, 2020
3 min

D.W. Denham - Early Works 1

D.W. Denham is an experimental musician from Melbourne, Australia. His musical history can be traced back to the early 80’s in Sydney,...

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Lars Haur

Dec 4, 2020
2 min

Farcaster - Farcaster Beta

I don't listen to a whole lot of synthwave anymore. Much of it seem to basically be a subgenre of danceable pop music at this point. But...

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Lars Haur

Dec 2, 2020
2 min

Jermainesoul - Onerism

It was quite difficult to categorize this EP, but it also seemed like it wasn’t really necessary to do so either. Released at the tail...

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Rob Benny

Dec 1, 2020
2 min

Cryptorianus - Melancholia - Eight Silent Ghost Songs

Cryptorianus is a German based experimental recording project that incorporates heavily distorted bass guitars performed by violin bows. ...

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Rob Benny

Dec 1, 2020
2 min

Selvedge - Bloom in Rust

Selvedge is an experimental, Industrial tinged Dark Ambient project founded by Chance Dibben - a native of Kansas, USA. His newest...

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Lars Haur

Nov 27, 2020
2 min

Leifandeth - Distorted Remixes

Before I start, let me just say that I am honestly not the biggest fan of remix albums. So when I was introduced to Leifendeth’s...

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Lars Haur

Nov 25, 2020
2 min

Willebrant - Fern___

The natural world is a veritable treasure trove of inspiration for moments of introspection and reflection. Many have attempted to...

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ON THE FRINGES OF SOUND

Lunaria - Asphodel Meadows

Sigvard - “Remembrance”

Cucurbitophobia - Solstice: An Odyssey Through Seasons and Cyclical Successions

Seffi Starshine - A Very Danish Paulstretch Christmas Vol. 1, 2, & 3

Marcelo Armani - Thanks for the Photosynthesis

Stephen Weber - "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel"

Sunwarper - "Moonwashed"

Steve Hadfield - Displacement Activity Vol. 3

Leaving Richmond - Visions

Colonial Skyway - Landline

Francesca Heart - Ianassa Alga Miraggio

Listener Depleted - You Slept, I Didn’t

The Billows Burn Bright - The Philosophers Are Dead

D.W. Denham - Early Works 1

Farcaster - Farcaster Beta

Jermainesoul - Onerism

Cryptorianus - Melancholia - Eight Silent Ghost Songs

Selvedge - Bloom in Rust

Leifandeth - Distorted Remixes

Willebrant - Fern___

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