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Tim Hecker – Konoyo (Kranky, 2018)

Chris — Sun, 30 Sep 2018 15:09:59 +0000

The universe strains towards entropy, a state of low energy disorder. Complex structures are anathema to it, and there will come a time, trillions of years from now when the last vestige of order in space disappears and the distance between subatomic particles will be thousands of light years. The fact that you are alive […]

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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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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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Albums of the Decade: William Basinski – The Disintegration Loops (2062 Records, 2002)

Chris — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 15:46:01 +0000

Over the years this record has become increasingly more difficult for me to come to terms with and talk about; it’s the polar opposite of virtually every record I’ve ever listened to in that regard, but when you consider that the whole thematic approach and significance of the Loops revolves around life and death and entropy, […]

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Desert Islands Discs #2: Giles Corey – Spectral Bride

Chris — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 17:45:24 +0000

“People who want to die don’t know what being dead is like” Dan Barrett’s Giles Corey project isn’t exactly an easy one to talk about; for the uninitiated, his self-titled debut (and thus far only record under the alias) is the record of a man with suicidal depression, the musical diary if you will of […]

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Ian William Craig – Zugzwang For Fostex (Patient Sounds, 2016)

Chris — Sat, 05 Mar 2016 16:30:05 +0000

For an artist who has frequently dabbled in cassette tape destructions it seems Ian William Craig has hit the furthest possible limit of the sound; upon discovering that his Fostex multitrack recorder was on its way out, rather than immediately discarding it he used it for one final project that would ultimately be an overture to […]

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Cestine – Rugosa (Hacktivism Records, 2015)

Chris — Tue, 12 May 2015 16:31:57 +0000

Rugosa is, sadly, the last effort of ambient/drone project Cestine; it’s always hard producing that final record and when a band knows that they’re folding that last effort is always important and something a little special. It comes to epitomise the journey that project has come along, the maturation and refinement of ideas and sounds along […]

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Arash Akbari – Vanishing Point (Flaming Pines, 2015)

Chris — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 14:50:58 +0000

Time wields a power over us all, there’s nothing any of us can do to stop it, change it, reverse it, it just marches forwards endlessly. And it’s turbulent too, unforgiving; across the course of our ever withering lives we suffer loss, loneliness, anxiety, increasingly relying on our past exploits as we age before we […]

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Find Hope In Darkness – Locked So Tightly In Our Dreams (Moving Furniture Records, 2014)

Chris — Wed, 14 Jan 2015 17:05:59 +0000

While I’m not a huge fan of pointing out details about the artist in reviews, sometimes I think it’s important to make note of certain surprising revelations that seem to make the music sound just a little better. For instance, in Find Hope In Darkness we find its creator, Glenn Dick, is actually just […]

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Raum – Event Of Your Leaving (2013)

Chris — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 19:46:02 +0000

Dark, even suicidal themes played with in the new Grouper and Jefre Cantu Ledesma collaboration with "Event of Your Leaving"

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