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Andrew Chalk & Tom James Scott – Wild Flowers (Skire, 2013)

Chris — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 21:23:41 +0000

I’ve written almost 600 pieces here since 2012, and something that I find harder and harder as the years going by is maintaining some sense that what I’m doing feels sufficiently and deliberately different in each post to reflect positively against every record. Part of the difficulty is the humdrum of working life exists in […]

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Jason Calhoun + Foresteppe – a four part cure (Florabelle, 2025)

Chris — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 22:25:37 +0000

I’ve written and deleted and rewritten several drafts of this post. Surprisingly that’s not actually normal: once I have it in my mind to cover a record the words usually find their way to me and posts tend to come together in one sitting, or maybe two with some tweaks. Or they don’t come at […]

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Stars of the Lid – The Ballasted Orchestra (Kranky, 1997)

Chris — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 20:42:30 +0000

A piece of trivia about me, for those who have never seen me in person, is that I have a tattoo on my arm of the cover of SotL’s The Ballasted Orchestra. It was my second (tat-two) actually, inked back in 2019 and probably the one that gets the most questions in general conversation. For obvious reasons […]

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Rafael Anton Irisarri – FAÇADISMS (Black Knoll Editions, 2024)

Chris — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 18:58:15 +0000

Recently I was told that that I hold myself back, suppress myself “rather than living a bit more freely or giving a chance for new things”. This wasn’t meant in a cruel way, but as an observation of my character and not putting myself out there, and it’s true. I’m a cautious and anxious person, […]

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Fennesz – Mosaic (Touch, 2024)

Chris — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 11:56:17 +0000

There’s a certain irony to the more intimate conversations I make through here and my art posts elsewhere that I’m actually quite a guarded person in real life and avoid emotional vulnerability. It’s always slightly alarming when someone says something to me that betrays the fact they’ve read something on HearFeel, but I find it […]

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Merely, Malibu – Essential Mixtape (YEAR0001, 2024)

Chris — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 21:18:22 +0000

I’ve spoken about it before but I often feel I have a compulsion to travel. I’m not sure it can be called wanderlust exactly, at least not all the time, sometimes it’s just a desire to escape. A trajectory away from the normalcy and rhythm of regular life for a moment, a period in […]

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r beny – discerned in the fugue of streams (quiet details, 2024)

Chris — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 20:13:02 +0000

The days go faster this time of year, the sudden slump into darkness and early sunsets: so far this month the city I live in has recorded almost zero hours of sunshine up until today. Autumn is definitely here, and is hurtling relentlessly to the crashing end of the calendar. In these abrupt melancholia-inducing conditions […]

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The Sight Below – It All Falls Apart (Ghostly, 2010)

Chris — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 20:58:08 +0000

There’s a line in Hannah Diamond’s “Unbreakable”, the final track in her most recent LP Perfect Picture, right at the very utmost end of the album actually, where she sings: “Sometimes good things come from an ending” It’s not that I find myself drawn to this particular lyric often, rather that I feel I ruminate on finiteness […]

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Tim Hecker – An Imaginary Country (Kranky, 2009)

Chris — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 18:57:50 +0000

I haven’t been sleeping well the last couple of weeks. First I thought it was the excitement of travel, then it was the random sprinkling of hot and muggy days: now I realise it’s because of, well, you know… I close my eyes and my mind wanders, unbidden, unfocused, wanting. Eventually I slip into restless […]

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Bvdub – Heartless (n5MD, 2017)

Chris — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 20:13:29 +0000

I’m finding it hard to write lately. Summer has historically been a slower period for HearFeel, and as the years go by my time seems to become thinner and less available for both writing and listening and it only compounds the infrequency of my posts. And although I’m cognisant of these shifts and flows within […]

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