Thrill Jockey Unfamiliar Minds is Elena Setién‘s second album for Thrill Jockey and comes on the heels of a previous collaboration with Xabier Erkizia, which came out on Forbidden Colours. Xabier is also integral to this album, but it is Elena’s dreamlike and gossamer visions upon which the we are […]
Monthly archives: January 2022
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Robert Sotelo‘s latest LP Celebrant comes out to the world via the good offices of Upset The Rhythm. A keen self-interviewer and lateral-thinking artiste, Robert has taken a moment or twelve to guide the listener through each song on Celebrant, giving a personal touch to each number.
(self-released) The buzzing Bristol duo of vibraphonist Harriet Riley and fiddler supreme Alex Garden tumble their inspired collaboration into its second Sonder volume, taking bassist Stevie Toddler along for the journey and pushing one another a little further into where their two musical palettes collide. The previous album‘s sunny disposition has […]
Bristol, 21 January 2022 This is a pairing of contrasting acts, both enterprising bastions of electronica, one coming from a cinematic sensibility, the other skewing the dance equation.
Thrill Jockey Listening to In Free Fall, Maya Shenfeld‘s album of slow-moving and stately processions, it feels a little like visiting a gallery full of huge, abstract artwork or watching somebody gently unfurl a series of enormous flags. Everything unfolds at a pace that gives opportunity to be totally immersed […]
Southern Lord (CD & US vinyl) / Pomperipossa (vinyl in Europe) Recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival back in 2018, this is a powerful testament to the Anna von Hausswolff live experience. She eases you in gently with the lilting latitudes of “The Truth, The Glow, The Fall’, a folksy […]
Discus The latest eclectic release from Bo Meson finds him teaming up with other Discus luminaries to re-imagine the life and possible success of Dylan Thomas through words and soundscapes, using the opportunity to shine a light on what might have been in an alternate universe.
Southern Lord An improvised uprooting of their Pyroclast and Life Metal albums — or epic exorcism — suitably broadcast on Samhain of 2019, these three tracks catch SunnO))) at the end of their world tour, emotionally expanding the raw material, giving the BBC 6Music listeners a monumental feast.
Bedevil Fermenting for over six years, Scapa Foolscap began as a series of rough sketches initially inspired by the shipwreck-strewn waters of Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands, understated soundscapes that gave Pumajaw’s vocalist Pinkie Maclure plenty of space to explore as it slowly evolved into the duo’s eighth album.
Rednetic Regular Rednetic recording artist Zainetica is back with another album-length dose of his progressive synth-based hymns to modernity; the subtle, scuffling beats and the warm sense of movement evincing a sweetness and sleekness that leaves contemporaries trailing in his sky blue wake. There is the feeling of a whole […]
It’s often said that in hindsight some of the greatest inventions were so bleedin’ obvious that it was a wonder that no-one had ever thought of them before. In many ways that same logic applies here; given the dub chromosomes that, from the very offset, were nestled within The Pop Group’s DNA, it’s a forehead-slapping revelation that dub remixes of them, particularly this album, weren’t attempted years ago.
Empty Birdcage Regular improv collaborators Daniel Thompson and Colin Webster have released this live set from September 2020 to give the uninitiated a glimpse of their playing relationship and the way that differing viewpoints lead to surprising interactions, veering from placid waves to more frustrated and awkward splashes.
Abrams Now I’ve been a Throbbing Gristle fanboy for most of my adult life, became an avid follower of the many splinters that branched from its demise, a host of alienated sounds I felt a positive connection with — Coil, Chris and Cosey and of course Psychic TV. Yeah, PTV’s […]
(self-released) This Comet Of Any Substance release, Full of Seeds, Bursting With Its Own Corrections — which can perhaps be described as an EP due to its short running time — has the greatest air of mystery about it. There is something disorientating about the woozy instrumentation that flickers and […]
Happy Robots The oval oddness of Anaphora’s opener “Pilomotor Reflex” are ace, reversed shivers cerebrally nibbling slowly, beaconing out on a delightful Kraftwerkian romance (minus that detached chill). A dance of chameleon-like shapes that fluidly viper that dry percussive, an agitated softness for that anti-capitalist narrative to dagger deep, tangle […]
Discus For French singer Carla Diratz‘s latest album, she has enlisted two of the Discus family to conjure some surprisingly diverse soundscapes for her smoky, timeworn vocalising. Both Martin Archer and Nick Robinson are hardy veterans, capable of providing the perfect backdrops and these veer from the gentlest of piano […]