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Efrim Manuel Menuck and Kevin Doria - are SING SINCK, SING

Constellation The latest release from Efrim Menuck finds quite a dramatic change to the sound we have come to expect from him. Teaming up with Growing‘s Kevin Doria has seen a move away from the kind of grandiose string arrangements of Godspeed You! Black Emperor and A Silver Mt Zion, and more of an embrace of the kind of slow moving, subtly evolving guitar soundscapes for which Growing […]

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Efrim Manuel Menuck and Kevin Doria – are SING SINCK, …

  • Album review
  • Efrim Manuel Menuck
  • Kevin Doria
  • Mr Olivetti
Published 05/06/2019
Imperial Wax - Gastwerk Saboteurs

Saustex It’s a band you know, but not for being this band. And their press thingy doesn’t mention that previous band. So I’m not going to either.

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Imperial Wax – Gastwerk Saboteurs

  • Album review
  • Imperial Wax
  • Kev Nickells
Published 03/06/2019
K-X-P - IV

Svart By the looks of the duo on the back of the cover and the long list of electronic machines that Timo Kaukolampi plays listed on the inside, with Tomi Leppänen having just drums and a Juno, I figured maybe K-X-P were some sort of twenty-first century take on Silver Apples. I was not too far off the mark, but the vocals that appear on IV are buried […]

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K-X-P – IV

  • Album review
  • K-X-P
  • Mr Olivetti
Published 30/05/2019
Henry Plotnick - Blue Fourteen

Blue Tapes Henry Plotnick‘s excursion on Blue Tapes from 2014 (when he was thirteen) is a meditative collection of pieces that are about slow build, decay and regeneration. Over the course of an hour and six tracks, Henry shows his abilities with a wide variety of instruments and atmospheres that makes for an intensely satisfying, if at times bewildering, collection.

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Henry Plotnick – Blue Fourteen

  • Album review
  • Henry Plotnick
  • Mr Olivetti
Published 29/05/2019
Giancarlo Erra - Ends

Kscope “All art is solitary and the studio is a torture area” – Alexander Liberman. There is a certain type of melancholia about Giancarlo Erra’s Ends that has its roots in a very British and American form of ambient music. It is that rare thing that manages to capture the beauty and the sadness of a place, and Ends also offers the sense of memory and moments past […]

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Giancarlo Erra – Ends

  • Album review
  • Gary Parsons
  • Giancarlo Erra
Published 29/05/2019
Kinbrae - Landforms

Truant For Kinbrae‘s second album, the brothers Truscott have chosen to weave an aural tapestry of the River Tay. It serves as a kind of love letter and story as to the impact the river has had on their lives, and their interactions with the surrounding landscape. Newly started label Truant has issued this on lovely 12″ vinyl with dramatic photographs on the inner sleeve

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Kinbrae – Landforms

  • Album review
  • Kinbrae
  • Mr Olivetti
Published 28/05/2019
Flesh Tetris - Wrong Kind Of Adults

Back2Forward The long-awaited début album by London’s Flesh Tetris, Wrong Kind Of Adults, is finally here. And Flesh Tetris is really quite a name, isn’t it? Echoes of Cronenbergian erotica funnelled through retro videogaming, an ambience which translates directly to their music.

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Flesh Tetris – Wrong Kind Of Adults

  • Album review
  • Flesh Tetris
  • Justin Farrington
Published 28/05/2019
NOTS - 3

Upset The Rhythm Hot on the heels of the Drecksound LP, the third NOTS LP finds Hash Redactor‘s rhythm section Charlotte Watson and Meredith Lones reconvening with singer / guitarist /keyboardist Natalie Hoffmann for another high-intensity post-punk charge, smashing what came before out of the way.

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NOTS – 3

  • Album review
  • Mr Olivetti
  • Nots
Published 28/05/2019
Golden Ashes - Gold Are The Ashes Of The Restorer

Aurora Borealis Gold Are The Ashes Of The Restorer evokes an eldritch combination of screaming wind-tunnel black metal and epicly bombastic post-post-rock of the Explosions In The Sky variety. Given Mories De Jong‘s penchant for all things bleakly symphonic and immensely mordant-sounding, that seems like a fair starting point for beginning to describe just how much of a rinsing-out Golden Ashes give the listeners’ collective brainpan here.

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Golden Ashes – Gold Are The Ashes Of The Restorer

  • Album review
  • Golden Ashes
  • Linus Tossio
Published 24/05/2019
Martin Archer - Another Fantastic Individual

Discus For Discus‘s eightieth release, Martin Archer has decided to go solo again, while also attempting to reproduce some of the sounds of his hornweb sax quartet that was active between 1983 and 1993. Not only that, it appears also as a kind of love letter to those saxophonists that have influenced him over the years of his playing, from the likes of Paul Desmond and Lester Young […]

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Martin Archer – Another Fantastic Individual

  • Album review
  • Martin Archer
  • Mr Olivetti
Published 24/05/2019
Sabbath Assembly live at Desertfest London 2019

London 3-5 May 2019 Friday: Gary The May bank holiday is normally a time for the revival of pagan customs in Britain. These can be found from local village morris dancers to the crowning of the May Queen in Glastonbury. For a few days, Britain takes on the stance of people being an extra in The Wicker Man while also drowning their innards in vast quantities of booze.

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Published 24/05/2019
Tropic Of Coldness - Maps Of Reason

KrysaliSound The latest release from Tropic Of Coldness is their first for KrysaliSound and builds on the slow motion soundscapes of 2018’s Framed Waves. Spread over four gently undulating pieces, Maps Of Reason unfolds at a pace that is beyond leisurely, and serves to lull the listener with its subtle washes and natural movement.

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Tropic Of Coldness – Maps Of Reason

  • Album review
  • Mr Olivetti
  • Tropic Of Coldness
Published 24/05/2019
Dommengang - No Keys

Thrill Jockey For Dommengang‘s third album for Thrill Jockey, it sounds as though they threw all their stuff into the back of the car and blew their LA home in favour of a wild ride into the desert, forsaking the concrete gleam for some dusty widescreen excesses. The scree of feedback that opens the album is a welcome reminder of their rock roots, but also that they are […]

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Dommengang – No Keys

  • Album review
  • Dommengang
  • Mr Olivetti
Published 18/05/2019
Fox Millions Duo - Biting Through

Thrill Jockey The bringing together of two serial collaborating drummers can only be a good thing, and when they have the pedigree of Oneida‘s Kid Millions and Uniform‘s Greg Fox, we must be in for a treat. Greg plays drums on Biting Through, but he also concentrates on creating a synthesized backdrop for each of the six drum-crazy tracks appearing on the album.

reviews

Fox Millions Duo – Biting Through

  • Album review
  • Fox Millions Duo
  • Mr Olivetti
Published 18/05/2019
Silver Relics - Generic

Farmadelica Silver Relics are a duo from New York who ply a kind of synth- and rhythm-orientated take in classic American rock song-writing. Consisting of songwriter Alex Sepassi on guitar and synths, amongst other things, and Justin Alvis on drums, they formulate a sound that is redolent of the sort of film imagery that anyone could recognise from the last thirty years; those enormous storm drains that run […]

reviews

Silver Relics – Generic

  • Album review
  • Mr Olivetti
  • Silver Relics
Published 17/05/2019
Suns Of Arqa - Heart Of The Suns

Interchill It’s incredible to think that Suns Of Arqa have been making music for forty years now. I first came across them at the start of the 1990s when they were being lumped in with other ambient dance artists such as The Orb, Future Sound of London and Banco de Gaia as that scene exploded in 1991. So here is Heart Of The Suns, a thirteen-track celebration

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Suns Of Arqa – Heart Of The Suns: 1979-2019

  • Album review
  • Gary Parsons
  • Suns of Arqa
Published 16/05/2019
Bethia Beadman - Into The Peace

Rosélie Records Child ballerina turned singer-songwriter Bethia Beadman was transplanted from the West Country to the flat lands of Lincoln, and from there plies her trade, releasing albums of emotional and sweeping drama, the latest of which even includes Mike Mills of REM fame on keyboards, guitar and vocals. Having spent time as a member of Hole‘s touring band and part of Circulus, as well as writing and […]

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Bethia Beadman – Into The Peace

  • Album review
  • Bethia Beadman
  • Mr Olivetti
Published 16/05/2019
Diacritical Mark - Lozenges

Courier Sound Suffolk micro-label Courier Sound have released another of their beautifully presented cassettes. Coming in a lime green hand-made box and lime green cassette, with Quality Street wrappers and lovely little card inserts, it looks a treat, but it totally belies the aural contents. The fact that the wrappers are salvaged from “several years of reluctant Christmas obligation” should warn the listener

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Diacritical Mark – Lozenges (Regular Strength) EP

  • Cassette
  • Diacritical Mark
  • EP review
  • Mr Olivetti
Published 14/05/2019

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