NOT NOT FUN

Although many a vibe has shifted since the days of dubbing NNF001 one at a time on the floor of a Koreatown bachelor apartment in February of 2004, using stolen photocopies and tie-dyeing J-cards...

The concept for and palette of Crystal Dorval aka White Poppy's 'Paradise Gardens' trilogy first germinated in 2016 as a notion of "paradise music" combining new age, bedroom shoegaze, and bossa nova...

Vinyl LP pressing. Madison's insular lineage of long-form sonic reducers replenishes and mutates at an impressive clip, so it's no surprise that the debut LP from one of the city's freshest next-wave...

Vinyl LP pressing. Collaborations reap the raddest rewards when the participants tease out the weirder and wilder geographies of their vibe-map Venn diagram, and for this reason (among others) the...

Vinyl LP pressing. 2012 release from the Australian post-power trio, who slyly gene-splice strands of mutant new wave, freeform house, digital trashcan tribalism, and minimalist pop into something...

Vinyl LP pressing. French globe-tourist High Wolf has hand-rolled his way up Mount Fuji, train spotted every corner of Europe, hitch-hiked across America and Australia, chugged Ganges water, and...

Vinyl LP pressing. The past two years have found Austin's dark lord Xander Harris (a.k.a. Justin Sweatt) on a heavy transfigurative trip, overhauling his live rig, detouring through an expansive...

Director Amanda Kramer's prompts for composer Ben Babbitt's soundtrack to her enigmatic film Paris Window read like magnetic fridge poetry - "warped ambient bumper muzak tension" - but the results...

Vinyl LP pressing. When Adelaide enigma Rites Wild, a.k.a. Stacey Wilson, arrived in Los Angeles, her show got busted up by the cops before she even got to play (nice priorities, LAPD). Even so, she...