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Kali Malone – Living Torch (Portraits GRM, 2022)

Chris — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 20:38:55 +0000

People are often quick to cite the difference between being alone, and loneliness. One is simply a situation, a status of sorts: the other is a condition, a feeling. As they always like to say, it’s perfectly possible to be surrounded by people and feel lonely, as though isolated from the rest somehow, or conversely […]

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Malibu – One Life EP (2019, UNO NYC)

Chris — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 20:25:13 +0000

I, like many others, was an electronic dance music listener before coming into Ambient. Trance, House, Garage, Progressive Electronic: these were the spaces I cut my teeth on, and I often attribute my particular penchant for Trance and its long developing atmospherics as a large part of my transition to Ambient and Drone’s carefully metered […]

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Geotic – To Not Now, Nor To Ever, Despair (Basement’s Basement, 2022)

Chris — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 18:46:34 +0000

I like Winter light. I like its lowness, its weakness, its brevity. In its strongest moments it has a brilliance and clarity that Summer can never equal, sharp sunlight cutting through cold and clear skies; at its weakest it hardly introduces itself at all, barely penetrating the clouds to flatly illuminate the world of starkness […]

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upward eyes – Ian Hawgood (EP, 2022/2023)

Chris — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 18:40:38 +0000

For the past year or two I had to admit to myself that I wasn’t in a good headspace, and found myself struggling in one aspect with a mindset of stagnancy and circularity, afraid that I wasn’t making “progress” or that in some ways or areas of my life I was in no different a […]

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36 – Colours In The Dark (3six Recordings, 2022)

Chris — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 22:06:34 +0000

Describing depression, especially to those who don’t understand the experience or haven’t been through it themselves, is not an easy thing. There’s this common preconception that it’s some kind of state of chronic unhappiness, but the reality is perhaps worse than that: it’s a continuum of anhedonia, an emotional flattening where both joy and […]

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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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Anthéne – Frayed (Home Normal, 2022)

Chris — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 18:11:48 +0000

What is the sound of unravelling? The noise that gets made as action undoes state, as circumstance alters mood, sways emotion, changes life. Paradigm shifts of drama often feel nuclear, violent rendings that disturb and violate in instantaneous moments of calamity. They’re obvious and inescapable, but dissolution and decay, fraying: these are insidious process that […]

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Claire Rousay – everything perfect is already here (Shelter Press, 2022)

Chris — Tue, 17 May 2022 17:20:32 +0000

It’s been three months since my last post; in that time I’ve been far from stagnant, listening to about 3000 tracks (according to my stats), so plenty of music. The vast majority of that has been energetic and modern material, hyperpop and it’s ilk, fast and exciting and bombastic and daft material that’s just suffused […]

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Raum – Daughter (Yellowelectric, 2022)

Chris — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 19:53:50 +0000

I was travelling with work the last few weeks for the first time in over two years, our trans-Atlantic in-person stuff having all been stopped as a result of the C Word. It’s a curious thing, travel for work; on the one hand it puts a complete pause on your life while away, and on […]

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Olli Aarni – Loput (Laaps, 2022)

Chris — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 20:56:41 +0000

There’s this moment, in the first of Aarni’s two track Loput, “Aallokossa”, where the tidal drones and oscillating tones that form the listless atmospherics give way. For a brief, shining time there’s a feeling of dissolution, the melancholic vibrations melting away like sandcastles facing a relentless sea, all aquamarine and insistent. It paves the way for a […]

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