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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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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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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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Ian William Craig – Slow Vessels EP (130701, 2017)

Chris — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 20:22:49 +0000

Something I’ve often said, though I suspect mostly outside of HearFeel, is that one of my overwhelming feelings in Ian William Craig’s music is that of romance. It’s not a sentiment I’ve seen, well, anywhere else actually, and I felt a little bit validated in my thoughts after listening to his latest EP Slow Vessels, […]

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Jefre-Cantu Ledesma – On The Echoing Green (Mexican Summer, 2017)

Chris — Sat, 24 Jun 2017 15:48:16 +0000

To listen to Cantu-Ledesma records of yesteryear, you would perhaps be surprised to hear the direction he has moved into recently; known early for thick, dense and noisy productions (with such titles as Shining Skull Breath and Speaking Corpse), he has relatively quickly evolved into Shoegaze and Hypnagogic Pop as of late. The result? Records that carve […]

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Jacaszek – KWIATY (Ghostly, 2017)

Chris — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 18:31:48 +0000

A collection of pieces styled out of old-English poems and built on fractious and decayed orchestration, KWIATY all at once manages to embody the spectrum of emotions that we have lent flowers and their many varied species: the romantic rose for the lovers; the dainty petals picked off a billion daisies by adolescent crushes; bouquets left to […]

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Lusine – Sensorimotor (Ghostly, 2017)

Chris — Sun, 12 Mar 2017 15:52:05 +0000

Experiences, sights and sensations, whilst all deeply personal and intimate events, are also things that can be shared with others. The effect may be different depending on the individual, but the inputs are often repeatable, the elemental feelings shareable. Many of Lusine’s records touch on these feelings of personal duplicity, of co-opted experience: A Certain Distance involved us […]

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Ian William Craig – Centres (FatCat Records, 2016)

Chris — Thu, 21 Jul 2016 17:00:46 +0000

Make no mistake, this is the most dense, most affecting, and most elusive of all of Craig’s records. It’s also the darkest journey since the bubbling distortions of A Forgetting Place (the forerunner of A Turn of Breath) and you will find that no amount of written text will ever totally satisfy the complicated scope of this crushing […]

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Julianna Barwick – Will (Dead Oceans, 2016)

Chris — Wed, 18 May 2016 17:19:43 +0000

A sense of development in an artist’s sound is an essential and expected aspect of their career; it’s difficult to maintain that which made someone popular initially across many records without becoming stale, and it seems like with some sense of reluctance Barwick is making the correct estimation that she can’t languish in the same pink […]

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Albums of the Decade: Lusine – The Waiting Room (Ghostly International, 2013)

Chris — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 17:25:18 +0000

It’s no secret that John McIlwain’s Lusine project holds a pretty special place in my heart, and another review of an all-time favourite from him is coming soon, but for now we find ourselves concerned with the careful excitations and dramas of his most recent record The Waiting Room. As always, we get more than we bargained for in […]

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