Coming to Repeater Radio on 21 December 2022 from 11:00 GMT / UTC will be a rewind and more of the Live and Indirect Sessions co-curated by Freq and Drift of Signifieds so far this year, plus a few extras such as ekslusive Ekoclef and Ekoplekz live sets too. Discord link for the lounge. Schedule (may be altered at the last minute!): Time Artist Session 11:00:00 DJ Rottenmeats Mix 1 […]
Alexander Tucker
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Thrill Jockey Hot on the heels of last year’s Don’t Look Away, 2019 sees Alexander Tucker once again hunkering down on his own in the studio. Guild Of The Asbestos Weaver constructs tracks that employ his love of sci-fi and cosmic horror in a recognised song format, with all of the pieces here allying his gorgeous vocals to rhythmic and melodious structures that tip a hat to the […]
Thrill Jockey Well, you knew this was coming. Dorwytch hinted (OK, explained) that Alexander Tucker was moving closer and closer towards a kind of English pastoralism and now he’s got to Third Mouth, where the drones and buzzes move still further away from the longer forms of his early albums and head towards smaller, yet exquisitely designed, packages of psychedelic folk. This is like someone’s swallowed Rob Young’s […]
The Institute for Contemporary Arts, London 30 January 2008 Here is my ATP festival experience. I always seem to miss the bands that I wind up liking the most. So, having missed Fuck Buttons at The Nightmare Before Christmas I wasn’t going to miss them again when they came to Ithe CA, and they more than lived up to my expectations. First on was fellow ATP label mate […]
London 29 May 2006 Drones, reedy and thin, waft out in layers of rolling minimal bliss. They increase dutifully in number and density until the Empire is suffused with them, Alexander Tucker switching pedals and setting up loops of harmonic intensity, nodding like a monk at prayer into his devotional music. The huge bass tone which emanates from his acoustic guitar is a wonder to behold, though from […]