Rocky Votolato

quickly playing packed shows across the country including stops at SXSW

Morten McCoy took a break from enjoying the incredible but fleeting summer weather of his Nordic climes to tell us about Kosmos

and as such it's appropriately roomy – two 40ish-minute sides of long-form pieces for guitar and fiddle that follow their own winding routes to their own gorgeous ends

this one ranks pretty high

GREAT BARRIER - Repetition LP Goth Rocky VotolatoGreat Barrier is a project undertaken by Constantine Dino Karlis (HDU, Dimmer, Alastair Galbraith, Sonic Boom Spectrum, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Foundling) and two neuroscientist musicians he was artistically drawn to: Jason Kerr (My Deviant Daughter, Southkill) and Richard Hahnloser. The latters piano and synthesizer playing adds a minimalist jazz inspired harmonic flow to the bands idiosyncratic sound which amalgamates drone, improv, noise, dub,