Wadada Leo Smith – Ten Freedom Summers [Album Review]
Wadada Leo Smith's epic take on the history of the African-American Civil Rights movement is a magnum-opus! Imagine that you don't know who Wadada Leo Smith is – or, in…
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Fostercare – Altered Creature [Album Stream + Walkthrough]
In the world of dark rave music, a few labels seem to really have it down, and it feels like Fostercare has rubbed shoulders with almost all of them, with releases…
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Color Plus – Cerulean Dream [LP]
Connecticut's Color Plus is a name that's been on the radar for a while, but his newest Cerulean Dream LP is worth quite a few blips. It could be the…
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Clams Casino – Instrumental Mixtape 2 [Review]
If there's one producer to lead the way in the meshed genre of experimental hip-hop/ambient music it has to be New Jersey producer Clams Casino. Casino inimitable production, which is characterized by a…
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Curren$y – The Stoned Immaculate [Album Review]
I first started following Curren$y after the release of his third album, Pilot Talk, a record that took his worn voice and doused it in a warm and encapsulating array…
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Evil Needle – Equilibrium: The Return of Dr. Evil [Review]
There was an unusually large gap of inactivity since the last release Evil Needle threw at us. But there was a good reason and all of that is about to…
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Ab-Soul – Control System [Album Review]
Ab-Soul’s new full-length, independent album, Control System, accomplishes two things. It proves that the self-proclaimed ‘deep thinker’ of TDE (which includes Kendrick Lamar, ScHoolboy Q, Jay Rock, and Soul) is…
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Torturing Nurse – The Nihilism
There is a film, directed by the brilliant Robert Bresson, called Au Hasard Balthazar, released back in 1966. About said film, Jean Luc-Godard once said, "Everyone who sees this film…
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Krzysztof Penderecki and Jonny Greenwood – Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima / Popcorn Superhet Receiver / Polymorphia / 48 Responses to Polymorphia
It all started less than a year ago. Miles and miles away from where I'm sitting right now, back in September 9 and 10, 2011, a quite amazing event took place…
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Home Brew – Home Brew [Album Review]
When you're independent you have to do a little extra to get your art to the masses. This usually entails more performances, free music, maybe advertising at a university and sometimes putting your…
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The Flaming Lips – The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends [Album Review]
The Flaming Lips are on an apparently endless creative stream. Last year saw the release of no less than 9 EPs of new music – two of those being the…
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Colin Stetson – New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges [Album Review]
This album was released by Constellation Records back in 2011, and although here on EARMILK we're not really on the business of reviewing older albums, the staff thought it was…
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