Musings from the MEANS editor…
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MEANS: nOVEMBER rOUND-UP
MEANS Magazine monthly round-up of new and shiny things we think are awesome. Two Worlds : Alfredo Santa Ana / Miranda Wong(https://redshiftmusicsociety.bandcamp.com/album/before-the-world-sleeps) Sunning itself somewhere between the virtuosic and the minimal, Two Worlds is… Read more
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The Duties of Property
I am currently in the middle of a house move and can confirm that it is indeed a monstrously stressful activity. As I lamented in an email to an (enviably monastic) friend, ‘why do… Read more
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Hopeless Just-ness
[[[[This article is good for nothing.]]]] As I allude to in most of my writing, the past decade has been one of immense change in how I understand my role as an artist and,… Read more
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Three Aspects of a Practice
Whilst contemplating what to write about for this article, a Tarot draw revealed three Knights in a row. Characters of action, intention, energy—a clear indication to move—but towards what were these intense figures pointing?… Read more
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MEANS 4: launch compilation
We are proud to announce the 4th volume of our fundraising compilation series, this time coinciding with the first physical magazine edition. 17 tracks of wonderful underground, independent and experimental music from an international… Read more
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Deep Fade : Temporal Uncertainty
Dark. Sinister. Disturbing. Like the beginning of a really f—king frightening horror film. Deep Fade are not messing around as they manipulate synth, voice, sampling and guitar to create an industrial noise soundtrack to… Read more
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Gnaarf : Dreamwalker alt version
Lounge Lizard, Smokey bar, laid back dark noir Jazz is the overall feeling for “Gnaarf- Dreamwalker” the alternative version. You could be sat at the bar of a Prohibition-era Speakeasy with a shot of… Read more
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CrOOKED FANG : S/T
Crooked Fang sent in a track for our 3rd compilation, a mesmerising, mildly psychedelic number called ‘ Rome is on Fire’, and having subsequently checked out the album, its safe to say I’m hooked.… Read more
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Bridges of Königsberg : Internal Heat
It’s always a pleasure when ‘experimental’ music actually sounds a bit, you know, ‘experimental’. Bridges of Königsberg fit the bill wonderfully – producing a sound that is at once noisy, arrhythmic, composed and oddly… Read more
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