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Merely, Malibu – Essential Mixtape (YEAR0001, 2024)

Chris — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 21:18:22 +0000

I’ve spoken about it before but I often feel I have a compulsion to travel. I’m not sure it can be called wanderlust exactly, at least not all the time, sometimes it’s just a desire to escape. A trajectory away from the normalcy and rhythm of regular life for a moment, a period in […]

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Iglooghost – Tidal Memory Exo (LuckyMe, 2024)

Chris — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 16:17:54 +0000

The walk to and from work is a short one but the various pavements in the neighbourhood make it more tiresome than it needs to be, and are more reminiscent of patchwork quilts than pathways at times. Even after years of living here you have to be a mildly attentive walker, divided and sub-divided such […]

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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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Heinali – Kyiv Eternal (Injazero Records, 2023)

Chris — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 15:33:05 +0000

Sometimes, when I come back to my home city of Birmingham, I wonder how it will feel now, in what way it will be different to my previous knowing. In many ways the mood, or as the Zoomers would say the “vibe” of the city has changed little since my youth, though every new visit […]

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Evian Christ – Revanchist (Warp, 2023)

Chris — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 18:05:50 +0000

Friend 1: “Why do you like this stuff [electronic dance music], it’s so repetitive, doesn’t it get boring?” Friend 2: “I like it because it’s repetitive” This is a paraphrased conversation that was recounted back to me not so long ago in a conversation [friend 2] had with a mutual friend of ours on generally listening to […]

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Lusine – Long Light (Ghostly, 2023)

Chris — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 20:18:59 +0000

I dislike the wist that comes with nostalgia but sometimes it’s necessary to be retrospective, to take the time to look back and see the shadow we’ve slowly been growing behind us on our path forwards. There’s two strands here in the case of Long Light: firstly that Jeff McIlwain has been releasing under the […]

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Isaac Helsen – Burning House (EL Muelle/Low Versions, 2021)

Chris — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 18:42:55 +0000

When I first moved to my current residence almost five years ago it was a strange period of displacement and adjustment. Leaving aside the new working arrangement, the physical act of moving oneself and possessions across the country to live, permanently, elsewhere is a challenging process. Everything is new, unfamiliar, unsettled. Years later I’m still […]

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Arovane – Reihen (12k, 2021)

Chris — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 17:07:22 +0000

There’s something in the structure and/or formality of museums that calms and composes the viewer, gently funnelling you from one piece to the next whilst allowing each discrete item its own space, it’s own opportunity to be seen. The setting itself is mundane at best, a platform optimised for the flattery of its occupants with […]

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Oneohtrix Point Never – Magic Oneohtrix Point Never (Warp, 2020)

Chris — Sun, 08 Nov 2020 11:44:48 +0000

Something I’ve talked about at great length in the past is nostalgia, it’s such a powerful force and point of obsession running across and through music. Perhaps it’s a generational thing, perhaps it’s simply a rose-tinted goggles perspective that is a universal human constant; either way these retrospective views of the world have a frequently […]

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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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