Katie Gately

Katie Gately's music can be particularly hard to describe or pin down.  Is it electronic?  Sure.  Is it dancey?  It can be.  Is it weird?  You betcha.  I sometimes find myself wondering what manner of alien or imaginary woodland creature created these often bizarro, warped pop tracks.  Listen to "Tuck" below, taken from Gately's upcoming debut, full-length LP, "Color," out later this year on Tri Angle.

Roly Porter

"4101" is the latest from electronic producer/musician Roly Porter, taken from his upcoming new LP, "Third Law," and it sounds like the end of everything.  Equal parts ambience, drone, orchestral swell, and industrial metal chaos, the song ebbs and flows between moments of stark beauty and others of indomitable destruction.  It's the soundtrack for the end of the world.  Listen below and get the record from Tri Angle in January.

WIFE

Cold and bleak atmospherics are something one would expect from a black metal band side project.  What one might not expect is how calm and still the whole thing can be.  Such is the work of WIFE, the new project from former Altar of Plagues front man James Kelly.  WIFE finds the Irish artist experimenting with electronic and industrial sounds, a droning, ambient work that crawls and haunts.  Listen to "Heart is a Far Light" below and get the "What's Between" LP in June on Tri Angle.

Forest Swords - The Weight of Gold

Here's another new trippy and excellent track from Forest Swords.  New album "Engravings" is out in August from Tri-Angle.  Listen to "The Weight of Gold" now.

The Haxan Cloak

The Haxan Cloak is the work of artist Bobby Krlic, a desolate soundscape to score the end of the world, or at the very least, the post apocalyptic wastelands that follow.  Part drone, part horror soundtrack, part electronic experimentation, the songs on new album "Excavation" are almost hypnotizing in their murk and doom and gloom.  Listen to "The Mirror Reflecting (Part 2)" below and look for the album in April from Tri Angle.