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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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Gigi Masin & Rod Modell – Red Hair Girl at Lighthouse Beach (“13”, 2023)

Chris — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 19:31:16 +0000

Recently I’ve found myself reflecting back on my hobbies, largely because I’ve been spending time with new people who are curious about how long I’ve been active in things like photography and music, and have been recounting these sections of my life to them as part of this fabric of knowing. And it’s quite scary […]

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Mary Lattimore and Walt McClements – Rain on the Road (Thrill Jockey, 2024)

Chris — Wed, 29 May 2024 20:27:24 +0000

The Spring grasses are long in tooth now, the undergrowth green and wild after all this year’s rain and before the first big cuts by the council come to mow them back to compliance. Our garden is filled with tall swaying dandelions and leafy sycamore saplings round the edge that grow bolder every year in […]

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36 – Trance Anthems For A Sunken Generation (3six Recordings, 2024)

Chris — Wed, 22 May 2024 19:08:57 +0000

I have a morbid fascination with Twitter (X, whatever). It is a despair hole, a nihilist’s dream-space where the most miserable people on the web come to make other people more miserable elsewhere. I appreciate it for its daily memery, and general insanity since the Musk takeover, but it is not a good place. In […]

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Abul Mogard & Rafael Anton Irisarri – Impossibly Distant, Impossibly Close (Black Knoll, 2024)

Chris — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 19:39:45 +0000

I woke up this morning suddenly at about 4am, one of those disorientating rousings that I get on the odd occasion from a light sleep with vivid dreams, but it took me a good 10-15 seconds to remember where I was. Across the haze of my mind, groggily awake, trying to unwrap the dream from […]

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