#cory kilduff

Complex Distractions Presents : Favorite Albums Of 2022 Part I

Well here we are, at the end of another year. As far as the last couple years have gone I’d say this one was mildly more successful in not driving me to the brink. 2020 was, well, 2020. Isolation, pandemic, masks became a thing, and the truly stupid made their presence known(and continue to.) 2021, strangely enough, was worse for me than 2020. Even getting Covid in November of 2020 was like a…

Cory Kilduff : You Will Be Safe

Way back in 2019 musician Cory Kilduff dropped one of my favorite albums of that year in When It All Gets To Be Too Much, a sprawling, engaging, and emotionally connective record of dense and melodic synth. Pulling from 80s John Hughes films and those moments where things are as heart-heavy as they get, Kilduff made songs that pulled from those emotional climaxes. The songs were built around…

Fischer & Forde : It’s Just Business

There’s an uninhibited joy on Fischer & Forde’s debut album It’s Just Business. The dance/disco/house LP begs you to unplug from the big machine, put on your dancing shoes, and give into the grooves. It’s the kind of album you decimate your eardrums with in the car and drive an extra couple blocks just so you can finish it, only to sit in the driveway when you get home and give it another go…

Cory Kilduff Portacarrero (2019)

Complex Distractions Presents : Favorite Albums of 2019

As I’ve sat here for the last few days compiling a list of the albums I’ve listened to this year with the end result being a “favorite albums” compilation, I began wondering to myself “Why?” Why do I feel that my opinion is of any interest to all of you? I’m just some guy in the Midwest that deals with the same things everyone else deals with. I work a 9 to 5, I worry about my kids and their…

Complex Distractions Presents : Albums You May Have Missed In 2019(so far)

If you have a life outside of spinning records, enjoying a cocktail or two, and soaking in the existential fear that life as we know it is crumbling in our hands like a stale biscuit, then there’s a chance you may have missed a few of the amazing records that have been released into the wild so far this year. Fear not, Complex Distractions eats existential fear for breakfast(usually with an IPA)…

Cory Kilduff : When It All Gets To Be Too Much

Cory Kilduff works within longing and heartbreak on his Burning Witches Records debut When it All Gets to be Too Much. Pulling inspiration from the coming-of-age films Molly Ringwald made with John Hughes, as well as Paul Haslinger’s work in Halt and Catch Fire and Tangerine Dream’s score for Risky Business, Kilduff makes a nostalgic and wistful record filled with synth-heavy songs for those…

Cory Kilduff’s ‘When it All Gets to be Too Much’ Out Friday; Watch Video For “Chestnut Hills”

If you grew up in the 80s, then Molly Ringwald is an actress that made an impression on you. Watching films like Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Pretty In Pink, as well as The Pick up Artist, Fresh Horses, and For Keepsalways lent a feeling of longing to my teenage brain. There was always a point in one of those films where Ringwald had an absolute moment of heartbreak. Where the whole world…