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Iglooghost – Tidal Memory Exo (LuckyMe, 2024)

Chris — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 16:17:54 +0000

The walk to and from work is a short one but the various pavements in the neighbourhood make it more tiresome than it needs to be, and are more reminiscent of patchwork quilts than pathways at times. Even after years of living here you have to be a mildly attentive walker, divided and sub-divided such […]

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Ben Frost – A U R O R A (Mute, 2014)

Chris — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 21:13:31 +0000

It’s been ten years since Ben Frost’s third record, A U R O R A, released: ten years of, several times a year, ending up getting half-cut (if not drunk) and listening to this extremely loud. It’s what God (Ben) intended, I feel. And to answer the question pre-emptively: yes, I currently am. I did cover […]

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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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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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Evian Christ – Revanchist (Warp, 2023)

Chris — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 18:05:50 +0000

Friend 1: “Why do you like this stuff [electronic dance music], it’s so repetitive, doesn’t it get boring?” Friend 2: “I like it because it’s repetitive” This is a paraphrased conversation that was recounted back to me not so long ago in a conversation [friend 2] had with a mutual friend of ours on generally listening to […]

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Lusine – Long Light (Ghostly, 2023)

Chris — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 20:18:59 +0000

I dislike the wist that comes with nostalgia but sometimes it’s necessary to be retrospective, to take the time to look back and see the shadow we’ve slowly been growing behind us on our path forwards. There’s two strands here in the case of Long Light: firstly that Jeff McIlwain has been releasing under the […]

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Tim Hecker – No Highs (Kranky, 2023)

Chris — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 17:15:31 +0000

I look around regularly at the moment and wonder to myself: what the hell is happening to this country? The potholes in my city resemble roads in some war-torn republic, not an ostensibly first world nation; our national health service is in rolling crisis; workers are striking in virtually ever sector; food and energy prices […]

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Clarence Clarity – UNRECORDED HISTORY (Self-released, 2022)

Chris — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 18:31:43 +0000

The sound of the movie theatre behind closed doors, the thump of the club beyond the entrance, the roar of the party rising as you climb the steps: noise as anticipation, as invitation. I’ve had a fascination with this idea since Byetone’s 2008 Death of a Typographer (Raster-Noton), whose opener “Into Bios” transitions from field recordings off […]

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Oneohtrix Point Never – Magic Oneohtrix Point Never (Warp, 2020)

Chris — Sun, 08 Nov 2020 11:44:48 +0000

Something I’ve talked about at great length in the past is nostalgia, it’s such a powerful force and point of obsession running across and through music. Perhaps it’s a generational thing, perhaps it’s simply a rose-tinted goggles perspective that is a universal human constant; either way these retrospective views of the world have a frequently […]

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Autechre – SIGN (Warp, 2020)

Chris — Sun, 18 Oct 2020 11:06:56 +0000

People have always remarked on the fact that I’m “not very emotional” and some variation on the perception that I’m grumpy or irritable at something on a regular basis. It’s one of those incredibly annoying things to hear because I know myself that I’m very inwardly emotional but not always particularly expressive of it, and […]

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