Once a week, Stack delivers a mix of the most interesting new music on the web, handpicked by the Hype Machine team. Here's a recent mix.
Cruel Diagonals - Scintillation
a closer listenFollow “Perhaps the greatest joy found in a year-end list of experimental music is that it rewards not only the experimentalism,…” 6 days ago →
Cruel Diagonals - Disobedience
a closer listenFollow “Cruel Diagonals (L.A.’s Megan Mitchell) is quickly becoming one of our favorite artists. Fractured Whole, recorded only with the sound…” on Oct 15th →
Cruel Diagonals - Vestigial Mythology
a closer listenFollow “Having first captured our attention with Monolithic Nuance (2018) for Longform Editions, Megan Mitchell’s Cruel Diagonals has continued to impress…” on Jan 30th →
Cruel Diagonals - Penance
Bandcamp DailyFollow “Tim Hecker’s noisy attack on vapid algorithms, North Americans’ stellar cosmic Americana, and much more. Read full story on the…” on Apr 28th, 2023 →
Cruel Diagonals - Disobedience
Record TurnoverFollow “For the second volume of its great Girls Invented Noise compilation, Industrial Coast have conspicuously renamed it to women. They’re…” on Nov 27th, 2022 →
Cruel Diagonals & Jon Carr - Fall Back Into Earth
Resident AdvisorFollow “Cruel Diagonals is the musical project of Los Angeles-based singer, producer and visual artist Megan Mitchell. Since 2016, she's used…” on May 11th, 2022 →
Cruel Diagonals - A Dormant Vigor
I Die: You Die Follow “After a couple of rare weeks off we’re back and working to get caught up with all of the music…” on Aug 16th, 2021 →
Cruel Diagonals - Verdant & Poised
Bandcamp DailyFollow “Field recordings from the Canary Islands, Memphis rap, an anarcho-goth classic from the UK, and more. Read full story on…” on Apr 23rd, 2020 →
Cruel Diagonals - Null and Devoid
My Blog ClicheFollow “Doom Trip Records está celebrando 4 años de vida en medio de la pandemia, por lo que ya tiene preparado…” on Mar 28th, 2020 →
Cruel Diagonals - Liminal Placement
Tiny Mix TapesFollow “Megan Mitchell creates atmospheric, sonically dense electronic compositions under the Cruel Diagonals moniker. Her debut album, Disambiguation, arrived last year…” on Mar 14th, 2019 →
Cruel Diagonals - Itinerant Solitude
Tiny Mix TapesFollow “I’m sitting in my apartment on a #rare snow day in Seattle, seeking some appropriately frosty tunes to match this…” on Feb 5th, 2019 →
Cruel Diagonals - Manifest Clandestine
I Die: You Die Follow “Wilshire Corridor The Fig & The Wasp Dune Altar How do you describe a band like Wilshire Corridor? The Los…” on Jan 18th, 2019 →
Cruel Diagonals - Render Arcane
Bandcamp DailyFollow “If Disambiguation isn’t the gothic ambient album of the summer, it’s certainly the ideal soundtrack for sunbathing alone on a…” on Jul 12th, 2018 →