The DIY/underground music community seems to be finally ready to get excited about New-Age music. Black Dice’s “Beaches and Canyons,” Delia Gonzalez and Gavin Russom’s “Days of Mars,” and the Cluster reunion tour seemed to have laid the groundwork but it took surprisingly long to become an obsession among the larger DIY and avant-garde music scene.  Iowa artists Wet Hair do an art-punk take on Cluster, while artists such as Emeralds, Infinity Window, and Oneohtrix Point Never create abstract and amazing synthy, ambient, and often noisy New-Age. There are other notables such as Luke Perry, Blues Control, and the arguably massively influential James Ferraro, who, once a member of the much revered Skaters, now makes pacific ocean-inspired new age noise under many aliuses. If nothing that I am saying sounds familiar that is because it is still pretty underground, but I should say I have noticed Art of Noise songs getting referenced more frequently, as well as arpeggiating synths coupled with swirling drones creeping slowly into the indie-rock lexicon.

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