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Albums of the Decade: Deakin – Sleep Cycle (Domino, 2016)

Chris — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 21:46:19 +0000

So much changes when you commit to some self-reflection, does it not? We all have our own foibles and neuroses that we carry with us through life, but recognising these aspects about ourselves helps enormously with our processing, and acceptance, of them. Things very much came to a head for me about this time last […]

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Hakobune – The Last Of Our Time Together (Past Inside The Present, 2019)

Chris — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 20:01:38 +0000

Whenever I go away I have a tendency to get somewhat attached to the places I’ve stayed in or the cars I’ve driven. It’s a peculiarity of mine; I won’t necessarily miss them when I’m gone but I find the moment of departure, especially if I’ve been somewhere for a decent period of time, to […]

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36 – Black Soma (3Six Recordings, 2017)

Chris — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 18:23:02 +0000

Light and dark, the oldest juxtaposition in existence. The something vs. the nothing, the good vs. the bad. Preceding each piece here is a counterpoint, a piece of subterfuge which casts a glimmer of melancholy and doubt into its matrix: black. Notions of lightness and purity, places of promise and hope, become tainted with a darkling […]

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William Basinksi – A Shadow In Time (2062, 2017)

Chris — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 19:07:06 +0000

Death is a spectre that makes itself known in many of Basinski’s works; it’s an inevitable side effect of the entropic tape loops he plays with so frequently, inherently futile in their reductions as they are. Complex essences are distilled into short bars whose value is only given power when stretched across many minutes of […]

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Shovels Beat The Sun – Sky Wires (BITROT, 2016)

Chris — Fri, 23 Sep 2016 16:29:44 +0000

The atmosphere is a place of tremendous dynamism and power, eternally restless and shifting. Its organically variable output feels almost human at times: today calm and tranquil, contented; tomorrow, dark and blustery and harsh, angry. It’s nothing more than personification, projection of humanity on something unconscious and unthinking, but that doesn’t make it unrelatable. This is […]

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Holven Fora – Who We Are Was Left Behind (2016)

Chris — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 14:05:23 +0000

Rain is many things: a cleanser, a valuable life-bringer, a mood dampener; its army of droplets patter and pummel, their combined force arriving on solid ground to transform into their unified liquid mass in streams and rivulets. It scours and erodes, irrevocably changing the landscape upon which it descends, but it also brings a healing […]

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Subheim – Foray (Denovali, 2015)

Chris — Sun, 10 Jan 2016 16:26:04 +0000

If there’s one thing you can count on Kostas K’s music as Subheim as being, it’s dark, atmospheric and moody right to the last. At home in the broad confines of Downtempo, Trip Hop and Ambient Techno, the Subheim project has been a brooding and mysterious place in which loneliness and often existential dread find themselves […]

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Siavash Amini – Subsiding (Futuresequence, 2015)

Chris — Fri, 27 Nov 2015 17:30:34 +0000

Siavash Amini’s latest effort on Futuresequence is, in many ways, not too dissimilar from the work that he’s produced in the past that we know and love; it’s underpinned by idiosyncratic synth drone elements and migrates through effortless segues from thought to thought, but what I think is notable about Subsiding is that it feels less contextually […]

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Rafael Anton Irisarri – A Fragile Geography (Room40, 2015)

Chris — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 17:18:31 +0000

It’s difficult to imagine what life would be like if right at this moment most of our possessions and the tools of our livelihood all suddenly disappeared; unfortunately this is exactly what happened to Irisarri when his removals van was stolen during a house move. The literal loss and the barrage of subsequent emotions is […]

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Albums of the Decade: Yellow Swans – Going Places (Type, 2010)

Chris — Sun, 01 Nov 2015 16:30:25 +0000

For our first foray into some of my favourite records of the decade thus far we start at the beginning in 2010; HearFeel was still two years away from being formed and I was only really starting to explore Ambient seriously so I never experienced Going Places around its release date, indeed I had no idea Yellow Swans […]

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