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Ben Frost – A U R O R A (Mute, 2014)

Chris — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 21:13:31 +0000

It’s been ten years since Ben Frost’s third record, A U R O R A, released: ten years of, several times a year, ending up getting half-cut (if not drunk) and listening to this extremely loud. It’s what God (Ben) intended, I feel. And to answer the question pre-emptively: yes, I currently am. I did cover […]

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Abul Mogard & Rafael Anton Irisarri – Impossibly Distant, Impossibly Close (Black Knoll, 2024)

Chris — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 19:39:45 +0000

I woke up this morning suddenly at about 4am, one of those disorientating rousings that I get on the odd occasion from a light sleep with vivid dreams, but it took me a good 10-15 seconds to remember where I was. Across the haze of my mind, groggily awake, trying to unwrap the dream from […]

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How To Disappear Completely & EUS – Remaining Light EP (Contradicta, 2024)

Chris — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 16:09:31 +0000

I have a set of tarot cards. I can’t remember when I bought them exactly, a couple of years ago at this point, and I don’t use them very often, but people are quite surprised that I own a deck. In some ways, I’m surprised myself that I own them, but I have a strange […]

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Ben Frost – Scope Neglect (Mute, 2024)

Chris — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 15:44:29 +0000

In the world of cognitive biases, there’s a phenomenon where we under appreciate the difference between values of growing magnitude, especially with lots of something. For example, the perception of the difference between 1 million and 1 billion: we struggle to grasp the enormity, the scope, of large numbers of things. 100,000, ok-ish, a stadium […]

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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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Taylor Deupree – Mur (Dauw, 2021)

Chris — Sat, 01 May 2021 11:35:33 +0000

There’s something in quietude and closeness that changes us, changes the way we speak and listen and think. Hushed tones and whispers, sounds drawn in close so as to not break the unspoken rules of the space. The mind and ear bend in to meet them instead, adaptive and receptive, narrowing focus on the mumbling […]

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Ben Frost – Steel Wound (Room40, 2003)

Chris — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 16:31:38 +0000

Over Christmas I took a few walks around my alma mater, the University of Birmingham, just a short walk from where my family lives now. Although my family home has never been more proximal to the place I spent the final years of my education, I very rarely visit the campus when I return home. It […]

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Anna Von Hausswolff – All Thoughts Fly (Southern Lord, 2020)

Chris — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 15:48:35 +0000

There’s a question I sometimes see being asked of artists which I find bothersome: “Where do you get your ideas from?” On the face of things it appears to be an innocent and straightforward query, a request for some insight into the creative process and the way in which the artist dreams up their material. […]

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Roly Porter – Kistvaen (Subtext, 2020)

Chris — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 16:25:44 +0000

I’ve been thinking about death recently, following the passing of my housemate’s grandmother. To know of grief yourself and being in the proximity of those experiencing it is a strange feeling; it creates a degree of separation where you can approach it from a safe distance, cognisant of its impact, but not quite feel the […]

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Siavash Amini & Saaad – All Lanes of Lilac Evening (Opal Tapes, 2020)

Chris — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 21:27:36 +0000

I’m adrift, lost in a sunset I can never recapture. They’re all like that, aren’t they? An elusive, effusive event, all the same and yet never two identical. The Sun sliding over the horizon, the sky reconfiguring its palette into nightly tones, its phase shift into darkness never twice the same, nor the scenery, nor […]

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