2019 Archives - HearFeel

Hannah Diamond – Reflections (PC Music, 2019)

Chris — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 20:14:11 +0000

Over the last 11.5 years of HearFeel I’ve probably been fairly candid about most of my experiences: quite some time ago I realised that that one of the things I wanted to bring to my writing was a candid presentation of myself in an otherwise frequently inauthentic internet. Aside from anything else it gives readers […]

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5 Albums from 2019

Chris — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 20:05:06 +0000

I initially wasn’t going to make this post, as I had committed to not doing a Best Of for 2019 (the first year I have not done so), but it felt weird not to at least make a passing remark on some of the year’s offerings. I still do feel it would be unfair to […]

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Minor Pieces – The Heavy Steps of Dreaming (FatCat, 2019)

Chris — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 22:27:44 +0000

I didn’t learn to drive until I was 21; I know that’s pretty late in some places but here it’s not such a big deal, though I suppose I was a little behind the curve. At the time though I knew when I started that, for whatever reason, I couldn’t have done it when I […]

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Blanck Mass – Animated Violence Mild (Sacred Bones, 2019)

Chris — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 20:44:32 +0000

Recently I was struck by a tweet from the contemptible air bag that is Julia Hartley-Brewer towards young climate campaigner Greta Thunberg before her trip to the States on a sail yacht: Hi Greta, I’ve just booked some long haul flights for my family to enjoy some winter sun on the beach this Christmas. Level […]

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Hakobune – The Last Of Our Time Together (Past Inside The Present, 2019)

Chris — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 20:01:38 +0000

Whenever I go away I have a tendency to get somewhat attached to the places I’ve stayed in or the cars I’ve driven. It’s a peculiarity of mine; I won’t necessarily miss them when I’m gone but I find the moment of departure, especially if I’ve been somewhere for a decent period of time, to […]

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Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – Tracing Back The Radiance (Mexican Summer, 2019)

Chris — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 20:46:07 +0000

I can see them now, the hovering eyes permeating the fabric of my mind, gazing out at me, into me, through some crystalline moment. A smile touches their edges, imbibing them with a character that only genuineness reveals, that sparkle and lustre that illuminates them. A shadow passes in a moment of consternation and seriousness. […]

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Rafael Anton Irisarri – Solastalgia (Room40, 2019)

Chris — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 19:44:35 +0000

On the train back from London earlier today my boss was gazing out the window as we left a station of whose name I can’t recall, out at the flurry of high-rise apartment blocks springing up everywhere. She said “people really need to stop having children don’t they?”. It was just an off-the-cuff remark, and […]

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Anthéne – Weightless (Home Normal, 2019)

Chris — Tue, 07 May 2019 20:39:55 +0000

When you reach the peak of a parabola, there is an instant of micro-gravity, of weightlessness. Right at the height of the arc, just before the swing into the downward plunge, you’re in suspension in a period of freefall. Mirrored on both sides by a long uphill struggle on the one hand and a steep […]

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Mikael Lind – Contingencies (ARCHIVES, 2019)

Chris — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 01:12:04 +0000

The world is filled with possibilities and probabilities: every meeting you have, every new connection made, every chance encounter, changes the course of your future in some way. Even fleeting instances can spiral into unforeseen events in your causal timeline, all because of a moment. As another expermentation into live improvisation by Lind, Contigencies embraces the notion […]

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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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