2023 Archives - HearFeel

Heinali – Kyiv Eternal (Injazero Records, 2023)

Chris — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 15:33:05 +0000

Sometimes, when I come back to my home city of Birmingham, I wonder how it will feel now, in what way it will be different to my previous knowing. In many ways the mood, or as the Zoomers would say the “vibe” of the city has changed little since my youth, though every new visit […]

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Mary Lattimore – Goodbye, Hotel Arkada (Ghostly, 2023)

Chris — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 20:37:48 +0000

As we move through the female ambient musician golden age, which I think it’s fair to say is slowly elapsing around us as more women find themselves in increasing prominence, a particular kind of artist seems to arrive at my doorstep more regularly than others. Perhaps that’s an aesthetic or taste driven thing on my […]

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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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Hannah Diamond – Perfect Picture (PC Music, 2023)

Chris — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 18:42:59 +0000

Once upon a time the internet used to be a much smaller and stranger place. Ok, it’s still strange but in a lot of different ways now: back in the “olden times” the general userbase was nerdier and weirder, the humour off-kilter and constrained by the limitations of resolution and bandwidth. Now access is ubiquitous, […]

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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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Saåad – A Crimson Shore (Hands in the Dark, 2023)

Chris — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 16:30:06 +0000

Over the years, Saåad’s records have plotted various courses through arenas of darkness: older EPs and records found themselves grinding with excoriating rumblings and static washes, rocks in the tumbledryer. As time has passed a cooler, more abstruse sound has emerged, one of glassy depths and twinkling fears sliding by in the abyssal reaches beneath. […]

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Lia Kohl – The Ceiling Reposes (American Dream, 2023)

Chris — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 11:50:16 +0000

I like travelling, it feels energising and important. Not just because it seems to appease the novelty-craving centres of my brain, cracking the monotonous ice rime that forms over the habitual rhythms of normal life, but also because it exposes you to other people, their culture and ways of life. To never leave home is […]

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Olli Aarni – Tuokioita (Ultraääni Records, 2023)

Chris — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 17:35:34 +0000

Over the last few days I’ve had some good opportunities to get out of the house and be taking photos. Outside of talking about music here, photography has been a primary hobby of mine for many, many years as a way for me to express my view of the world directly. Unfortunately with a busy […]

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Awakenings – Manja Ristić (LINE, 2023)

Chris — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 17:25:17 +0000

Today at work I left a meeting in the morning and as I was walking back towards reception, there was a rainbow projected onto the carpet, refracted through the glass doors from the courtyard. Just a little rectangle of split light that probably appears there most days the Sun is out, but I’d never noticed […]

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Ned Milligan – Considerable (Laaps, 2023)

Chris — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 20:27:30 +0000

One of the words that I’ve been keeping at the tip of my brain for the last six or nine months is “balance”. It’s so easy in this modern world to feel like you’re being squeezed in a dozen different directions all at once, that your life is being lead by forces beyond your control […]

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