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The Sight Below – It All Falls Apart (Ghostly, 2010)

Chris — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 20:58:08 +0000

There’s a line in Hannah Diamond’s “Unbreakable”, the final track in her most recent LP Perfect Picture, right at the very utmost end of the album actually, where she sings: “Sometimes good things come from an ending” It’s not that I find myself drawn to this particular lyric often, rather that I feel I ruminate on finiteness […]

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Jason Van Wyk – Threads (n5MD, 2021)

Chris — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 16:44:47 +0000

Every year around September and October time, I feel a strangeness set in. Part of it seems to me to be the expectation of education at the end of Summer, the returning to school or university, a feeling so ingrained into my internal timetable over 18 years that even after a decade away from institutionalisation […]

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Autechre – SIGN (Warp, 2020)

Chris — Sun, 18 Oct 2020 11:06:56 +0000

People have always remarked on the fact that I’m “not very emotional” and some variation on the perception that I’m grumpy or irritable at something on a regular basis. It’s one of those incredibly annoying things to hear because I know myself that I’m very inwardly emotional but not always particularly expressive of it, and […]

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Biosphere – The Petrified Forest (Biophon Records, 2017)

Chris — Mon, 05 Jun 2017 16:14:35 +0000

Biosphere’s Geir Jennssen wrote in a FactMag interview after the release of his last record that he “-always mean[s] to make a completely different album from the previous one”; a fairly bold statement, not least since with The Petrified Forest actually seems like something of a turning back of the clock to some of his earliest content. […]

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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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Loess – Pocosin (n5MD, 2017)

Chris — Sat, 04 Mar 2017 15:29:22 +0000

I can just about see the dockyards from my window, overcast light touching the myriad steel structures, steam rising out of the domed incinerator and climbing lazily into the low clouds. They’re more evocative at night, transforming into shadowy behemoths that punctuate the sky with their light-topped caps, metal facets gleaming under floodlights. It sometimes […]

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Jesse Somfay – Levamentum [Aqua Regia] (Tipping Hand, 2016)

Chris — Sun, 03 Jul 2016 15:07:46 +0000

Having disappeared for five years or so to explore more experimental electronic music horizons under his Borealis alias, Jesse Somfay is finally back producing music under his own name. But that exploratory period has left its mark and bridged some gaps and his latest effort, Levamentum, finds itself in distinctly new and untrodden ground for a Somfay […]

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Albums of the Decade: Loscil – Plume (Kranky, 2006)

Chris — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 16:53:55 +0000

Like all of Scott Morgan’s releases over the past 15 years, Plume finds itself exploring deeply thematic territory, entrenching itself in sonic ground built around a particular topic of exploration. Water and states of matter have been regular themes through his discography and Plume finds itself in the convergence point of both; whilst perhaps not as openly dripping as its […]

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Desert Island Discs #4: Jesse Somfay – NotR

Chris — Sat, 14 May 2016 16:59:39 +0000

Some years of your life are more peculiar than others; overall every year ends up being pretty peculiar in its own way, no two ever being the same afterall, but some are unquestionably more dynamic and filled with change and upheavals than others. 2011, the year I first listened to Somfay, the year I left […]

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Kane Ikin – Modern Pressure (Type, 2016)

Chris — Thu, 12 May 2016 16:08:33 +0000

Although we’re quickly descending into the Summer months and eschewing of dark, melancholic music listening that’s more befitting of Winter, sometimes records come along that pepper the light with a special kind of smokiness that demand attention. Long after the cool atmospheric brilliance of debut Sublunar, Ikin does exactly that, returning with a wholly more empowered and […]

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