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Padang Food Tigers – God’s Plenty (Shhpuma, 2021)

Chris — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 17:38:37 +0000

We went canoeing on the River Severn last month, along a quaint 14 mile stretch passing woodlands and sandstone cliffs and steam railways. Aside from the modern bridges and riverside static caravans that punctuate the banks periodically, it has a distinct feeling of being out of time, caught in its own little bucolic world that […]

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Andrew Lang – Momentary Senses (Rusted Tone, 2020)

Chris — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 18:56:00 +0000

I’ve started having strange and vivid dreams again after a reprieve over the Christmas period. The blame of course lies with work and lockdown restrictions, manifesting I assume through the anxieties of circumstance and creative drought of the home-prison. Whilst they’ve been quite potent, I forget almost all of them come the afternoon, but sometimes […]

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Aaron Martin – Touch Dissolves (IIKKI, 2018)

Chris — Sat, 01 Dec 2018 18:34:43 +0000

Your fingertips have such incredible capacity for feeling that you can perceive imperfections in a surface on the order of nanometers. Of all the senses, touch bridges the gap between ourselves and objects or others in a way that nothing else can, and this extreme sensitivity lended to physicality creates a powerful bond. It isn’t […]

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Less Bells – Solifuge (Kranky, 2018)

Chris — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 18:09:01 +0000

After some fruitless searching for the word “solifuge”, I turned to the press release that I probably should have read in the first place to learn that it is, in fact, a portmanteau of “solitude” and “refuge”. This blending of distance & isolation with a feeling of safety and security speaks to my introversion and […]

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Julien Boulier – A Film Not Yet Made (Time Released Sound, 2018)

Chris — Sun, 29 Jul 2018 15:29:47 +0000

I’ve been intrigued by fragrances lately, dabbling in the world of smells. At first I was compelled by the notion of a “signature scent”, of having something identifiable as me, some collection of aromas that would resonate with my individual character and presence. It’s been an interesting and ongoing journey, and whilst I’ve yet to […]

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Ian Hawgood – 光 (Eilean, 2018)

Chris — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 19:57:07 +0000

Photons are sometimes referred to as a “wavicle”, a wave-particle. At once they exist as physical particles, predictable in their path and trajectory, and yet also as a wave-function, a probability of occurrence across points in space. Ian Hawgood’s 光 means light, and like the wavicle of the photon this short little record takes two forms. The […]

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Grouper – Grid Of Points (Kranky, 2018)

Chris — Fri, 11 May 2018 18:38:02 +0000

I often feel like I have a great deal to say, and either nobody to say it to or the inability to articulate myself adequately. It’s an itch, an ache, this feeling of constrained emotion and no way to express it in a satisfying way. I think it bleeds out subconsciously, inviting its way into […]

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Christina Vantzou – No. 4 (Kranky, 2018)

Chris — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 19:11:00 +0000

Vantzou’s work has always had a certain cinematic, gauzy magic to it. Often times it deeply reminds me of Brian McBride’s solo work (unsurprising given their collaborative The Dead Texan project together), but No. 4 begins to feel a little breakaway. Not that this is any way a bad thing; indeed this sentiment of motion and change […]

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Aaron Martin – A Room Now Empty (Preserved Sound, 2018)

Chris — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 20:09:05 +0000

It’s been virtually two years to the day since my granddad died. If I close my eyes I can still see the living room, late night, gentle lamp light, palliative care bed up in the corner facing the french doors. That was the last time I saw him, body just clinging on. My grandma still […]

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Aries Mond – Come On Let’s Wait (Eilean Records, 2018)

Chris — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 15:57:58 +0000

I didn’t believe it would snow here this week, certainly not to the degree it did. We’ve heard the doomsday predictions of meteorologists before, and the little local microclimate made it seem all the more unlikely, and yet it did. Prodigiously, briefly. Normal weekday life here just ground to a halt; first as we stopped […]

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