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Stars of the Lid – The Ballasted Orchestra (Kranky, 1997)

Chris — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 20:42:30 +0000

A piece of trivia about me, for those who have never seen me in person, is that I have a tattoo on my arm of the cover of SotL’s The Ballasted Orchestra. It was my second (tat-two) actually, inked back in 2019 and probably the one that gets the most questions in general conversation. For obvious reasons […]

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Rafael Anton Irisarri – FAÇADISMS (Black Knoll Editions, 2024)

Chris — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 18:58:15 +0000

Recently I was told that that I hold myself back, suppress myself “rather than living a bit more freely or giving a chance for new things”. This wasn’t meant in a cruel way, but as an observation of my character and not putting myself out there, and it’s true. I’m a cautious and anxious person, […]

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Fennesz – Mosaic (Touch, 2024)

Chris — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 11:56:17 +0000

There’s a certain irony to the more intimate conversations I make through here and my art posts elsewhere that I’m actually quite a guarded person in real life and avoid emotional vulnerability. It’s always slightly alarming when someone says something to me that betrays the fact they’ve read something on HearFeel, but I find it […]

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r beny – discerned in the fugue of streams (quiet details, 2024)

Chris — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 20:13:02 +0000

The days go faster this time of year, the sudden slump into darkness and early sunsets: so far this month the city I live in has recorded almost zero hours of sunshine up until today. Autumn is definitely here, and is hurtling relentlessly to the crashing end of the calendar. In these abrupt melancholia-inducing conditions […]

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Tim Hecker – An Imaginary Country (Kranky, 2009)

Chris — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 18:57:50 +0000

I haven’t been sleeping well the last couple of weeks. First I thought it was the excitement of travel, then it was the random sprinkling of hot and muggy days: now I realise it’s because of, well, you know… I close my eyes and my mind wanders, unbidden, unfocused, wanting. Eventually I slip into restless […]

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Bvdub – Heartless (n5MD, 2017)

Chris — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 20:13:29 +0000

I’m finding it hard to write lately. Summer has historically been a slower period for HearFeel, and as the years go by my time seems to become thinner and less available for both writing and listening and it only compounds the infrequency of my posts. And although I’m cognisant of these shifts and flows within […]

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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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The Lonely Bell – The Absent Years (Oscarson, 2024)

Chris — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 15:39:58 +0000

CoViD was this hole in the world that life fell into, swallowing growth, swallowing time, swallowing love. I remember saying to one of my friends that it felt like I’d lost two years of my life: who I was, who I wanted to become, things I wanted to do, all became things frozen in a […]

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EUS – Vergel (BLWBCK, 2024)

Chris — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 21:56:51 +0000

I’ve been working with my current employer for just over 7 years, and two weeks today will mark the 7 year anniversary of moving into my current house, sort of properly solidifying my cross-country translocation here. I’ve often felt that there’s something in that number, seven: I know it has a long history in the […]

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Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – Love Is A Stream (Type, 2010)

Chris — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 21:01:48 +0000

As I get older, and perhaps also aided by the fact that I live some distance away from my family and birth-city, and travel fairly regularly with work and otherwise, I end up thinking about “home” a lot. The notion of it, what it means conceptually. I’m a flexible and independent person, I could live […]

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