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Clarence Clarity – Dead Screen Scrolls (2020)

Chris — Sun, 03 May 2020 12:31:47 +0000

Five weeks into our lockdown and it’s hard to differentiate one day from the next. Dates have become meaningless, the entire month of April has passed with little fanfare, and whilst I have come to accept the reality of our situation, a strangeness still pervades the waking hours. At times I feel restless, at war […]

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Billow Observatory – III: Chroma/Contour (Azure Vista Records, 2019)

Chris — Sat, 16 Feb 2019 19:13:15 +0000

Have you ever thought back and considered when the first time you enjoyed your first sunrise and sunset was? I’ve thought about this before, perhaps never vocalised it here, but it is fascinating to me that a memory like that seems lost to time. Instances come close, whether these were the first moments that I […]

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Strië – Perpetual Journey EP (Serein, 2018)

Chris — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 16:56:46 +0000

Laika was the first animal to orbit the Earth, a stray dog plucked innocently from the streets of Moscow and put aboard a rushed, primitive capsule to be sent into the lonely isolation of space. She was an unwitting pioneer, a “tender and charming” test subject in the hands of scientists and engineers at the […]

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Billow Observatory – II: Plains/Patterns (Azure Vista Records, 2017)

Chris — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 19:17:10 +0000

Summer begins 9 days from now on the Solstice, the longest day of the year, though on evenings like today you would believe that we were deep in its throes already: the woods are rich and dense with foliage; plants have cycled through their Spring blooms and are moving through to their Summer maturation; the […]

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Albums of the Decade: Manual – Until Tomorrow (Morr Music, 2001)

Chris — Mon, 31 Oct 2016 18:00:20 +0000

The debut record of Jonas Munk is one for the young, a brief snapshot of youthful energy and angst arced over 45 minutes of scuzzy, lo-fi, yet brilliantly earnest Indietronica. Unlike many of his later, more refined records that would sun themselves in languid Ambient and Downtempo with nary a care in the world, this […]

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2814 – Rain Temple (Dream Catalogue, 2016)

Chris — Wed, 19 Oct 2016 17:05:21 +0000

Originally of Vaporwave fame, 2814 prefer to craft music reminiscent of a different time, imbibing their sound with an older, 1980’s pastiche, a retro futuristic noir vibe that gives the unknown a certain seductive mystery. Rain Temple moves somewhat away from their former style, seemingly to the disappointment of some of their fans, but into a direction […]

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Desert Island Discs #1: Tycho – Adrift

Chris — Sun, 14 Feb 2016 17:45:06 +0000

To make me write and help keep me motivated, as well as to supplement the ongoing Albums of the Decade series, I will also be covering my Desert Island Discs on the 14th of every month. These days Scott Hansen’s Tycho project is practically a household name as far as downtempo music is concerned, his woozy sun-bleached tunes […]

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Dead Melodies – Subtle Imperfections (Sparkwood Records, 2016)

Chris — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 17:30:14 +0000

Dead Melodies’ Tom Moore has started his year off nicely by following up on his debut EP from last year, Slowwave Perception. There’s been some sonic growth in the last 8 months though, and whilst there still remains a remnant hint of the original Post-Rock ambience from the EP, this time around things are a little more eerie and […]

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Albums of the Decade: Lusine – A Certain Distance (Ghostly International, 2009)

Chris — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 17:25:11 +0000

There’s always an album that we can point to and say “there, that was the moment”; at the turn of 2010, Lusine’s A Certain Distance found its way to me and changed how I consumed music thereafter. If it wasn’t for this record, I wouldn’t be writing this and HearFeel wouldn’t be here, so I owe a lot to […]

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Subheim – Foray (Denovali, 2015)

Chris — Sun, 10 Jan 2016 16:26:04 +0000

If there’s one thing you can count on Kostas K’s music as Subheim as being, it’s dark, atmospheric and moody right to the last. At home in the broad confines of Downtempo, Trip Hop and Ambient Techno, the Subheim project has been a brooding and mysterious place in which loneliness and often existential dread find themselves […]

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