Tag: Brendan McKinney

Industrial Dissent: aktenzeichen_T’s “Midnight Between Lagrange Points”

Listening to aktenzeichen_T’s new EP, "Midnight Between Lagrange Points", feels less like putting on a record and more like unsealing a classified file. The artist's name, German for "case file number," seems to promise a kind of cold, bureaucratic evidence, and the Leipzig producer delivers—but the subject of this file is the messy, beating heart of human conflict. A case file rendered in kick...

Al Young Resurfaces as Megapenny Music for “Dance with Giants”

There is a distinct, almost tectonic rumble occurring now that Megapenny Music has dropped "Dance with Giants", a track that feels like the excavation of a lost city. Al Young, the mind behind the machinery, hasn’t produced music since the era when synthesizers were physically dangerous to move; forty years of silence broken not by a polite knock, but by a battering ram. https://open.spotify.com/track/34hGnDduq8Or3K24dcAn72?si=adc326c25a674847 Listening to...

Brendan McKinney’s “Fashion Magazine”: More Boot-Stomp Than Catwalk

So, Brendan McKinney and the 99 Brown Dogs drop "Fashion Magazine" into the world, and honestly, the title itself throws you for a loop...