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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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Lauren Bousfield – Palimpsest (Deathbomb Arc, 2020)

Chris — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 19:05:01 +0000

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot, more than ever, about my relationship with social media. Its greatest power, the ability to shine a light on subjects considered underrepresented, or perhaps even socially taboo, is matched only by its destructive potential and the force of anonymous pitchfork wielding legions. Echo chambers collaborate to make minority issues […]

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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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Matthew Dear – Beams (Ghostly, 2012)

Chris — Sun, 26 Apr 2020 13:02:39 +0000

I’ve been thinking about her in the mornings: I know I shouldn’t, but in that pillow-space between dreams and consciousness, where thoughts and feelings intermingle with little self-control, the fantasy runs away with itself. I know you’ve been there too: everyone’s had that someone they just couldn’t quite shake from their mind and indulged in tantalising […]

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Albums of the Decade: Blanck Mass – World Eater (Sacred Bones, 2017)

Chris — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 18:06:59 +0000

Despite all our advances and supposed civility, the modern world exists on a thin and fragile veneer of connective stability. With almost every country now revolving around the black hole of capitalism, obsessed each day with profit margins and stock prices and the dream of eternal growth, it feels like we stretch ourselves increasingly thin. […]

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