Broken Folk For the follow up to their well regarded debut album, This Is Broken Folk, Lunatraktors have looked far and near for a set of traditional songs to bolster this EP, a little taster for the second album due for release in 2021. The first thing that you really […]
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Faustus As on Daona‘s startling debut album The Secret Assembly, this duo love to weird you out, inject you with a swaying unease and mess with your expectations. The vaporous vampires and ghostly cinematics that glue up the action on Nightside Of Eden are like midnight’s children creeping the architecture […]
In Real Life Sometimes music appears in front of you and it seems to have come from nowhere. Like, it definitely slaps but you can’t quite plot how it got to be. Meth Math fit that description.
Courier The latest beautiful little Courier Sound package to drop is another based on an intriguing premise. Using the idea of William Burroughs‘s obsession with the number twenty-three, mysterious electronic artist Alien has concocted twenty-three pieces in twenty-three minutes.
Nonplace Burnt Friedman‘s Nonplace label certainly keeps him busy along with all his other engagements, but to celebrate their fiftieth release, he has paired two tracks of his collaboration with João Pais along with two of the tracks from his Jaki Liebezeit sessions which were recorded in 2015 on his […]
Nonplace The latest release from Wolff Parkinson White is an intriguing proposition. The alias of German drummer Jochen Ruckert is put in use when radical electronic ideas need a vent and the latest album Favours and particularly the tracks chosen from that album for the Nonplace EP are pretty radical.
Phoenix G As a house and techno producer, Mr G has been jamming the dancefloor for the best part of twenty years with releases on an array of labels as well as those on his own Phoenix G label. He seems to have spent most of 2019 cruising around the […]
Mottomotto Kyoto’s super-pop prog virtuosi Viva Sherry are back with a delightful 10″ vinyl release on the ever-reliable Mottomotto and considering it six tracks come in at about twenty-five minutes, it is extraordinary how much ground they manage to cover in that short period of time. 2017’s Obento Music was a […]
Courier The latest beautiful offering from Courier with its own hand-cut sleeve is a collaboration between old pals Nick Dawson and Stuart Bowditch, who were responsible for the genesis of the Silhouette Cameo 3 compilation that was released last year. In keeping with that album’s vibe of familiar sounds taken […]
Thrill Jockey Thrill Jockey continue their venture into noise territory with the first release from Eye Flys. The band is named after a Melvins song and with their own track titles like “Crushing The Human Spirit” or “Weaponize” and with rather sinister cover art, you probably have a good idea […]
Courier Sound There is something so delightful about Courier Sounds‘ three-inch CD packages. There is real care in the colour scheme and presentation, while the sounds contained are little gems, ones that have to be carefully selected considering the relatively short duration of the format. Sound recordist/musician Kim Rueger trades […]
Courier The latest beautifully packaged release from the ever-reliable yet increasingly diverse micro label Courier is the four-track EP Silences‘ from south-east England-based duo of the same name, James Green and Nick Dawson. Intended as the first in an ongoing series, the recording took place on one day in Southend […]
Substantia Innominata “Are All Things Equivalent?” may be the question, but the answers that Matt Waldron offers up for his contribution to Drone Records‘ sequence of 10” vinyl releases are as difficult to pin down as one might imagine from someone who has been a significant contributor to the surrealistic […]
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 […]
Foolproof Projects Andy Pyne and Lisa Jayne have reconvened as Map 71 to unleash a download EP of new material from Foolproof Projects. After time spent squirrelled away in their bunker (I imagine), the bouncing repetition and simple insistence of opener “Ex-Socialite Needs A New Invention” is faintly reminiscent of […]
Phantom Limb JR Bohannon is a Brooklyn-based solo guitar player who first recorded this mini-album back in 2017 for cassette label Ausca. Phantom Limb liked it enough and saw enough in its diverse energy to warrant a reissue. JR originally hails from Louisville in Kentucky, and some of that city’s […]
Courier Back in 2014, sound artist Stuart Bowditch produced a series of pieces for an exhibition that was taking place in the old Co-operative Bank in Colchester. Created solely using sounds discovered in the thirty rooms of the old edifice, it was installed as a loop playing on an in-car […]
Upset The Rhythm Fresh on the heels of Vital Idles‘ 2018 LP comes a four-track 7″ vinyl EP containing all-new material. The resonant post punk bass intro of “Break A” puts me straight into a good mood and the clear guitar slashes strike through at just the right tempo. Jessica […]
Jahtari Originally released in 2009, Hissing Theatricals was Jackson Bailey‘s début release as Tapes and now receives this vinyl re-issue treatment commemorating its tenth anniversary. A decade on, and Tapes’ resolutely 8-bit sounds have both never seemed more contemporary nor somehow as timeless as they do now. This is perhaps […]
Modularfield The latest release from Cologne’s Modularfield label is an EP from electronic artist Jochen Mader, here trading as Skyence. It is one of the label’s infrequent vinyl releases and the 12″ format perfectly suits the atmospheric artwork of a shadowy fencer mid-lunge. The cold, blue colours and the stillness […]