Snow Ghosts

February brings us new music from UK band Snow Ghosts.  The group's mix of English folk, noise, experimental electronica, and other elements is the perfect sound for cold months.  Check out "Curse" below and pre-order the upcoming "The Fell" LP here from Houndstooth.

Penelope Trappes

UK artist Penelope Trappes has taken all the songs from this year's earlier release "Penelope Three" and drastically reworked them on the upcoming "Mother's Blood Edition."  Check out the dark ambient drone of "Lucky Eleven" below, the sound of a world dying.  And while the cassette is already sold out, you can pre-order the download of the album here from Houndstooth.

Penelope Trappes

UK experimental electronic artist Penelope Trappes is set to release new album "Penelope Three" in May, a collection of dark and ambient tracks that find the artist ruminating on healing and love.  Check out the fragile and haunting "Nervous" below and pre-order the album here via Houndstooth.

For some reason, this post (along with several others) from back in March was deleted in err by Blogger.  They have reinstated it, but i'm having to repost it.

Penelope Trappes

In a month, UK experimental electronic artist Penelope Trappes will release her new "Eel Drip" EP.  Check out the icy and haunting title track, along with its appropriately moody video, below and pre-order the record here from Houndstooth.  Nudity ahead.

Snow Ghosts

UK band Snow Ghosts make dark, lush, heavy, and haunting music, an almost palpable mix of folk, goth, metal, chamber music, and neo-classical structures.  This is big music for big themes, and it was recorded in a castle in the countryside.  Listen to "Rip" below and get the new "A Quiet Ritual" LP here from Houndstooth.

Penelope Trappes Reworked by Mogwai

Last year, UK artist Penelope Trappes released the excellent "Penelope Two" LP, and now the whole thing is getting remixed/reworked/reinterpreted by a slew of different artists.  Check out Mogwai's oozing revision of "Burn On" below and pre-order the upcoming "Penelope Redeux" here from Houndstooth.

Abul Mogard reworks Penelope Trappes

Working with Brian Eno and others, Serbian experimental artist Abul Mogard just released a new album, "And We Are Passing Through Silently," in which he transforms and mixes the work of a handful of other artists into something completely different.  A highlight for me is the stretched and sprawling mix of Penelope Trappes' "Carry Me."  In Mogard's hands, the song becomes a slow crawling piece of droning ambience that stretches to the ends of the cosmos and back again.  Listen below and get the record here from Houndstooth.

Penelope Trappes

When you cite your influences as artists like Mazzy Star, Scott Walker, Nick Cave, Julee Cruise, This Mortal Coil, Leyland Kirby, and David Lynch, you've pretty much assured that i'm going to give your work a good, long listen.  And so we have "Penelope Two," the sophomore release from UK artist Penelope Trappes.  Her influences serve her well too, the record existing in some kind of melancholy ethereal dream state.  It's an almost overwhelming intoxicating listen.  Check out "Maeve" below and get the record here via Houndstooth.