The Handsome Family’s greatest gift lies in its tremendous talent for painting vivid, sometimes terrifying pictures with every word— NPR

The Handsome Family’s absorbing vision of decay and entropy is quietly unsettling,and makes most other modern roots music seem like child’s play—MOTHER JONES

Words that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing...Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the Appalachian voice — GREIL MARCUS

As songwriters it’s the eerie, ancestral voice of ‘Anonymous’ they ultimately
resemble the most —CHICAGO READER

Through the Trees (1998)—10 essential Americana records of all time — MOJO
In the Air (2000) —One of the most important records of the 21st century — UNCUT
“Weightless Again”—100 best songs ever written about heartbreak— THE GUARDIAN, UK

This is the world of The Knife: precise, particular, dark, occult, funny-peculiar, funny-ha-ha.

Johnnyrandom is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist living in Barcelona, Spain who specializes in the genre of “Musique Concrète” which is a form of electroacoustic music that is made in part from acousmatic sound. His 2014 release "Bespoken" explores the full potential of sounds generated from bicycles and their components:

www.vimeo.com/jrandom/bespoken 

It quickly became a viral sensation that has been featured in numerous international print publications, online publications, radio, and television. His current projects strive to promote awareness of one’s surroundings by tuning into the intrinsic beauty produced by everyday objects.

Press:

BBC: https://www.bit.ly/2v0yGaV
Red Bull: https://www.bit.ly/2VGpS5G
RNZ: https://www.bit.ly/2Z5OrLm
NPR: https://www.bit.ly/2UtzAf7 
Wired Magazine: https://bit.ly/3CGsJWu
East Bay Express: https://www.bit.ly/2Gfth6e
Gizmodo: https://www.bit.ly/2D9j2hU
Colossal: https://www.bit.ly/2G8P5iq
Mashable: https://www.bit.ly/2uYnTxI
Huffington Post: https://www.bit.ly/2X25Hzi
Grist: https://www.bit.ly/2WY6iC0
Design Boom: https://www.bit.ly/2IcLnba
Boing Boing: https://www.bit.ly/2IwMm5z

Benoit Duchemin is following