Night Clerk Radio: Haunted Music Reviews
Music
About
Birk and Ross plumb the depths of vaporwave, dark ambient, and other haunted genres of music. Discover new music to listen to and find out why we're drawn to retro aesthetics and dark music.
Episodes
- April New Music: ロービット and Superwave
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon Hey, do you know how many days are in April? Because Birk sure doesn’t! So, we’re putting the “night” in Night Clerk Radio with a special evening release. In this episode, it's time for some April new m…
- Cinematic Doom Jazz
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon Okay, the accelerated release schedule continues for another month! Time to cram 'em in! In this episode, we’re checking out a 2025 article covering “Cinematic Doom Jazz.” This curation effort from Phil…
- March-ish New Music
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon We’re getting back on schedule with a one-time only accelerated release cadence! Also, you gotta release March new music in March. Those are just the rules. I don’t make em. In this episode, we follow o…
- A Title Other Than Gone Fishing
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon While some may wax poetic about the ancient and noble art of fishing, they often overlook that it’s an activity that inspires some excellent games with incredible soundtracks. Well, in this episode, we…
- February New Music: Mana Lake and personalFX
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon We've emerged from our winter slumber to share some new music. First, we’re listening to the latest collaboration from City Girl & Guided Tour, Mana Lake, which takes the listener on an evocative journe…
- December New Music: Halogen Star and Oneohtrix Point Never
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon In our last new music episode of 2025, we’re checking out some recent albums with a focus on experimental electronic music. First up, we have an evocative journey through supernatural and eerie memories…
- A Utopian Scholastic Winter Break
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon Okay class, settle down and bust out your textbooks because in this episode we’re digging into Utopian Scholastic. It's the aesthetic of optimistic encyclopedias, multimedia learning, and the sleek, edu…
- November Late Music: DREAM SELECT and Once, We Were Infinite
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon Wow, would you look at that? It’s an episode covering some new music, and within Birk’s local light cone, it still qualifies as a November release. After spending an absurd amount of time on a couple of…
- We’re VHS Poppin’
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon Announcement! We were fortunate enough to be invited onto the “Hot Takes” vaporwave talk show. We sat down with YUNG SHIRO 白 and luxury noise for two hours of chatting about everything from Boards of Ca…
- October New Music: The Gargoyles of Vyônes and INFINITY VOL.II
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon Another episode already?! That's right! We're working to return to our regular release schedule. In this episode, we're diving into some new October music. As usual, we've got two albums: Ross stayed on…
- Spooky Video Game Soundtracks
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon It’s a late start to the spooky season! We’re jumping right in with a handful of soundtracks from recent horror video games. We’re checking out the big meaty six hour journey that is the Silent Hill 2 (…
- September New Music: VIDEOFUNK and Leviathan
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon In this episode, we're diving into some new September music. With summer coming to a close, it seems we were both inspired to explore some of our favorite comfort genres. For Birk, that's the hazy and n…
- The Curious Case of the Dungeons and Dragons Promotional Cassette
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon In this episode, we dare to enter Ross’s cherished domain: the tabletop role-playing game! We’re checking out “First Quest,” a 1985 promotional cassette released by TSR UK. The cassette features a wide…
- August New Music: Xeeland and Nmesh
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon It’s time for our August new music episode. This time there’s no obvious overarching theme between our picks so no clever episode title, sorry! We’re starting off with Master Builder by Xeeland, an albu…
- A Dungeon Synth Picnic
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon In this episode, we’re finally breaking out the summer dungeon synth. But first we ask: what even is summer in music when freed from the burden of marketing and publicity? After that mild diversion, we…
- Summer Dungeon Synth? No, Summer and Dungeon Synth!
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon First of all, sorry for the hecked up timing of recent episode releases. Ross and I have both had family in town which makes sticking to our usual schedule a bit difficult. Things should be back to norm…
- Vibing with The Rat Man in Vermis
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon In this episode, we’re exploring one of our favorite metagenres: haunted media about media that never existed. This time, we’re delving into Vermis, a strategy guide for a game that doesn’t exist. It’s…
- June New Music: Suburbia After Dark and Vistas
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon It’s time for June new music explorations and in this episode Ross and Birk have once again shown up with two very different albums. We’re discussing Suburbia After Dark, a compelling sample-laden darkw…
- Seeking More Sanctuary (Sanctuary 2025 Part Two)
## Support TransOhio! In this episode, we’re back to checking out a bunch of great live and URL sets from Sanctuary 2025, a charity show for the TransOhio Emergency Fund organized by Nostalgia Lounge in March of 2025. We go through sets th…
- May New Music: celadonDREAM Suite and ZIAD!
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon It’s time for us to gather around the Bandcamppole and celebrate the working artists of the world with our May new music episode. We’ve once again (completely unplanned!) have selected albums that repre…
- A Sanctuary Sampler (Sanctuary 2025 Part One)
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon ## Support the TransOhio Emergency Fund In this episode, we’re starting our series covering as many IRL and URL sets as we can get our hands on from Sanctuary 2025. Sanctuary is a charity show put on by…
- Patreon Rerelease: Corporate Art and Vaporwave
Hello! We’re starting a new project this month. We have almost 50 bonus episodes on our Patreon. The goal is to get these older bonus episodes out from behind the paywall. So travel back in time with us for poor recording setups, bad editi…
- An April New Music Sandwich
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon It’s time for our April New Music episode! This time around, we’re breaking the rules a bit by discussing three albums. Your three course meal starts with some classic USPS inspired vaporwave, moving on…
- Listenin’ To listencorp
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon In this episode, we’re checking out listencorp, a long-running magazine that covers vaporwave and electronic music. Each of their six issues features long-form articles, artist interviews, album reviews…
- Japanese Ambient Explorations
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon You should know that this episode was divinely ordained. The Discogs article below was posted by a listener on our Patreon Discord at the precise moment Birk was listening to a related album and thinkin…
- New Music: Cursed Mall and Blueberries on Mars
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon In this month’s new music episode, we’re exploring the anxiety/comfort duality in vaporwave as it appears across two amazing albums. Join us as we discuss the wonderfully anxiety-inducing Cursed Mall fr…
- Passionate Plunderphonics
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon In this episode, we’re discussing the 2024 album Passion by D.J. VLK. This amazing display of plunderphonics is made entirely using samples from the forgotten paranormal soap opera “Passions.” We talk a…
- Solarpunk Exploration
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon In this episode we’re digging into Solarpunk, a multi-media art movement that aims to build a vision of a more optimistic future, free from the crushing doom of environmental collapse. We talk about the…
- New Music: 飑 and Apeiron
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon It’s time for our first new music episode of 2025! It’s getting cold and snowy where we live so we picked out some albums that fit our wintery mood. We’re covering an amazing slushwave compilation from…
- Vaporwave Stocking Stuffers
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon We’re back! In this episode, we’re easing back into our recording schedule with a discussion of thirteen diverse albums spanning a wide range of Christmastude. From classic vaporwave to modern jazz, dar…
- The Neverending Discord Scroll
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon Announcement: Ross is going on vacation so this will be the only public episode this month. We may also miss one episode in December. Patreon episodes will continue as expected. Thanks for your understa…
- Storming the Lego Castle
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon In this episode, we’re tossing the new music format out the Part 4444 2x5x6 Wall with Window so we can focus entirely on Lego Castle (1979-1998) by Dreamcastle™. This phenomenally ambitious concept albu…
- Fighting the Satanic Panic
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon In this episode, we delve into the Satanic Panic, which was the primo moral panic of the 1980s and 90s. Specifically, we’re looking at the Satanic Panic series of albums by Vacation Bible School. This s…
- The Music of The Nightcrawlers
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon In this episode, we’re exploring the music of The Nightcrawlers, a trio from Philadelphia who produced over 30 cassettes of amazing cosmic and ambient synth during the 80s. We talk about one of these ca…
- New Music: Signalwave and Corporate Jazz
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon For our September new music episode we’re leaving the summer jams behind and getting into some recent releases from our favorite genres. First, we’re checking out a huge and varied compilation from the…
- Yesterday’s Future Funk, Today!
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon In this episode, we’re giving summer a big old Labor Day sendoff by checking out the best Future Funk… of 2023! We go through the best future funk albums as voted on by the r/futurefunk subreddit along…
- Melted Summer Jams
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon For our August new music episode, we’re submitting to the heat wave by leaving behind the upbeat dance music and settling in with some beats-driven ambient and music about dinosaurs. We’re checking out…
- Dungeon Synth Dance Party
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon In this episode, we’re exploring albums and artists that blend dungeon synth with other genres of EDM such as house, dubstep, drum and bass, and breakcore. We talk about what it means to blend such pote…
- Rescoring Films
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon In this episode, we’re chatting about the process of rescoring films. We largely focus on two examples: Terror Vison’s recent Blu-ray release of Dante’s Inferno and Steven Soderbergh’s 2014 “educational…
- New Music: Before The Forest and www
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon We’re mixing things up this month by doing our July new music episode first! We’re double mixing things up by doing albums from May! So mixed! Join us as we check out Before the Forest by FM Forest and…
- New Music: The Lone Rager and QUENCHED 💎🏝️🧃
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon Summer is upon us so we’re easing into the season with two albums packed full of summer jams. Join us for a killer Future Funk party with THAT’S MATT! and then remember to stay hydrated with QUENCHED 💎…
- 2024 Discord Spring Cleaning
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon What started as a way to fill an episode when we ran out ideas has turned into one of our favorite traditions. Twice a year we dig through music posted on our Patreon Discord and choose a handful of alb…
- New Music: Constant Night and New Position
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon In our May new music episode, we’re covering Constant Night by Alpha Chrome Yayo and New Position by luxury noise. Two amazing albums that highlight the broad range of influences artists can bring to va…
- Checking Out Hot Takes Vol. 1
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon In this episode, we’re checking out Hot Takes Vol. 1, a community-driven compilation album. Proceeds from the album are donated to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund to support victims of genocide in…
- New Music: And Then All Was Quiet and Our Lovelessness
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon We’re finishing off April with an exploration of some new music. In this episode, we’re covering And Then All Was Quiet by The Nightworker and Our Lovelessness by Hantasi. Two very different haunted alb…
- The Music of Dec-Affe-Inated Records
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon For our second episode of Record Label Month™, we’re talking about the Japanese label Dec-Affe-Inated Records. This private label is populated by the numerous aliases of a single artist whose music ofte…
- The Music of Ill-Advised Records
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon For the month of April we’re talking about record labels of all kinds. In our first episode, we check out two albums from Ill-Advised Records, a record label focused on dark lo-fi and similarly dark-the…
- New Music: Magnétoscope and Aquatic Galleria
New Music: Magnétoscope and Aquatic Galleria Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon On this month’s new music episode we’re checking out some excellent new vaporwave albums: Magnétoscope by ab97 and Aquatic Galleria by platinum towers, ホ…
- Utopia District’s 2023 Year In Review
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon In this episode, we’re digging into Utopia District’s 2023 Year In Review, a feature highlighting some of the best vaporwave (and associated genres) albums of 2023 as suggested by the community. Includi…
- New Music: Dated New Aesthetic and KEYGEN🔐
Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon In this episode, we’re starting our 2024 project of trying to focus more on new releases. There’s no overarching theme or over intellectualizing, just talking about two albums from the past month or so…