Marcus Fischer ̵...
I enjoy listening to a wide range of music, but it’s rare that I come across something that completely changes my understanding of how music ...
The Boats – Ba...
It’s 2k12 and here we go with The Boats 2.0 on 12k. Actually, for Craig Tatersall and Andrew Hargreaves this is more like incarnation 3.5. ...
Nova Scotian Arms / ...
An elder's hand running its fingers through quicksand - trapped by pressure, fighting to form a fist and punch its way out. Re-listening to "Navigation ...
Matthew Shaw –...
It could reasonably be argued that to truly distill the essence of a physical location into sound is perhaps one of the key challenges for ...
Windy and Carl ̵...
Listening to the new release from husband-and-wife duo Carl Hultgren and Windy Weber is like being enveloped in various kinds of cloud - sometimes drifting, ...
Willamette – A...
For those who have been following Fluid lately, the name of Willamette will be very familiar. Their recent debut ‘Echo Park’ was indeed hailed by ...
The Boats – Do...
Ever since "Sleepy Insect Music", Andrew Hargreaves and Craig Tattersal have shown a deft touch - harnessing guitar, violin, beats and tape loops that poke ...
Stuzha – Siber...
Behind every country lies another country, a land of memory and myth. Because this hidden country has a hold on the imagination, it is often more ...
Quinn Walker: Dead B...
Consisting of six mostly short pieces, Quinn Walker's 'Dead Bird Sing' is the latest in the post card series released through the ever consistent Hibernate ...
The Colour Of Long D...
North Wales; Spokane, Washington; Perth, Western Australia; 20 December 2011. Hidden Shoal Recordings presents ‘The Colour Of Long Days’, a companion track to the recently ...
Iron: Dragon’s...
The release of Iron marks the sixth anniversary of Yann Novak relaunching Dragon’s Eye Recordings, the record label originally created by his father Paul Novak ...
Christina Vantzou: N...
A remix album is a little like borrowing a book from the library and finding, with each turn of the page, the marks left by ...
Pleq / Hiroki Sasaji...
Time & Language is an album by three artists from different countries who recorded the album by emailing each other their contributions. All three of ...
Humble Bee / The, E ...
The cover of the book reads “The Franciscans – Love”. Inside, yellowed pages of text: the Hornbill, the Greater Bird of Paradise, the Sea Otter, ...
Ido Govrin – T...
For a moment, the opening cello thrum of “The Revisit”, Ido Govrin’s new release for Cotton Goods, immediately brings to mind Hildur Guðdnadóttir’s 2009 album ...
Pascal Savy – ...
Pitchfork's recent feature by Simon Reynolds saw him adapting the tech-speak "digital maximalism", first coined in the book "Hamlet's BlackBerry", to affirm the developing culture ...
Saaad – Delaye...
There is this extraordinary scene towards the end of Darren Aronofsky's masterpiece “Pi” where the main character Maximillian, driven to the brink of madness by ...
Nils Quak – El...
Hot on the heels of Leonardo Rosado’s “Mute Words” comes another poetry-and-music release, this one from new Portland, Oregon label Clothbound Recordings. “Elegy For Seaweed” ...
Ólafur Arnalds: Liv...
A couple of months back, Nils Frahm released Felt, an album of absolute magnificence and one that demonstrated his ability to reach his listeners emotionally ...
Autistici – Am...
Following on from last year’s double-bill of archive material, David Newman, aka Autistici, brings us a marvellous collection of new works with his third album ...
Fennesz & Sakam...
Blue; a darker blue; pink; orange. Short stabs of paint, like light stabbing at squinting eyes, quick as water. Vertical lines cross river and sky, ...
Le Berger – On...
There are some qualities - some incorporate things, That have a double life, which thus is made A type of that twin entity which springs From matter and ...
Ous Mal is dead . . ...
Finnish producer Olli Aarni killed it with his debut album, Nuojuva Halava, in 2010. Now, he's killing off Ous Mal. For his next album, Valot ...
Charlatan – Eq...
Music technology hub KV-R Audio recently issued news of a synthesizer named Charlatan. In its first edition, the freeware pad and string generator featured a ...
Oliveray – Won...
One can imagine the scene: a late night discussion between two close friends, possibly involving alcohol, in which they try to decide what name to ...
Will Long – Ro...
An array of consonant breaths, elongated eliptically around a thermal element: the distillate a by-product of strangely alien matter, defying identification by regular means. The ...
A Death Cinematic / ...
Split releases incite a cross to bear on behalf of artist and listener permeability. Will sequencing of tracks breach trust with more than a single ...
Cokiyu – Your ...
A colourful vibrancy resonates throughout “Your Thorn,” the second album from Japanese artist Cokiyu. With its gentle, welcoming melodies, acute attention to sound detail and ...
Wist Records –...
The Book Report Ethos... Like the music industry before it, the publishing sector has just begun its’ struggles towards the digital realm and in this process, ...
Jacaszek – Gli...
Margaret, are you grieving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leaves, like the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? - "Spring and Fall," (1880), by Gerard ...
