Tagged: Laurel Halo
What We’re Reading: Laurel Halo
Tired of reading the same recommended books from the usual sources? Just think of our weekly What We’re Reading column as your non-committal book club with The FADER and some of your favorite bands. For … read more »
Freak Scene: The Unsound Festival
Freak Scene originally began as a way for us to cover weird and out-there music in a specific corner of the FADER site. Over the years, coverage ranged from harsh noise to psychedelic folk to … read more »
Stream: Laurel Halo, “Light and Space”
“Light and Space” is the last song on Laurel Halo’s upcoming album on Hyperdub, Quarantine, though it works well as an initiation. Words are just words she sings, husky and unadorned. The keyboards gurgle and … read more »
Stream: King Felix, “SPRING 02″
King Felix is actually Laurel Halo, just with a pseudonym for an EP she’s putting out called Spring. She’s adapted the name from a record from she released a couple of years ago, but Laurel … read more »
Synth Wizards Collaborate in Front of Your Eyes
When we first heard RVNG’s FRKWYS Vol. 7, a collaboration between heady drone luminaries Dan Lopatin, Laurel Halo, James Ferraro, David Borden and Samuel Godin, we never thought they’d ever actually get in the same … read more »
Laurel Halo, “Constant Index” (Actress Violet Remix) MP3
Before we could go to bars legally, going out in New York was a stress-filled gauntlet of suspicious bouncers and forced dorm room hanging. One of the only other alternatives was going to hookah bars, … read more »
Borden, Ferraro, Godin, Halo and Lopatin, “People of the Wind Pt 2″ MP3
Next up in the prestigious RVNG label’s FRKWYS series is a new-agey, synth drone collaboration between a bunch of luminaries from that world, including Dan Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never), Laurel Halo (Laurel Halo), James Ferraro … read more »
Stream: Laurel Halo’s Hour Logic EP
The Brooklyn via Ann-Arbor based Laurel Halo is set to release her second EP on Hippos in Tanks (June 22nd). Purportedly an “ode to time leaping, designed to aid in moments of brain traffic and … read more »
Getting Weird With Human Ear Music
Seems like a million years ago that we posted the dusky, vaguely Fleetwood Mac-influenced “Heart Shaped Rock” by Nite Jewel and Jason Grier, the man behind label/collective Human Ear Music. Turns out it wasn’t even … read more »
Grimes, “Heartbeats (Laurel Halo Remix)” MP3
The soulfully bizarro child-like voice of Claire Boucher, aka Grimes, gets uber-diffused by Laurel Halo—to the point of being almost non-existent. Boucher’s ranging, high-pitched crescendos on “Heartbeats” (off of Geidi Primes) are buried under layers … read more »
