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Lia Kohl – The Ceiling Reposes (American Dream, 2023)

Chris — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 11:50:16 +0000

I like travelling, it feels energising and important. Not just because it seems to appease the novelty-craving centres of my brain, cracking the monotonous ice rime that forms over the habitual rhythms of normal life, but also because it exposes you to other people, their culture and ways of life. To never leave home is […]

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Eric Angelo Bessel – Visitation (Lore City Music, 2023)

Chris — Sun, 14 May 2023 13:46:25 +0000

Something that I find drives me and helps me choose new foreign places to visit is knowing someone who has lived there, I like having that human element that in some way contextualises a location in my mind. Recently I found myself in Bratislava for a few days: at least part of the reason I […]

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Clarence Clarity – UNRECORDED HISTORY (Self-released, 2022)

Chris — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 18:31:43 +0000

The sound of the movie theatre behind closed doors, the thump of the club beyond the entrance, the roar of the party rising as you climb the steps: noise as anticipation, as invitation. I’ve had a fascination with this idea since Byetone’s 2008 Death of a Typographer (Raster-Noton), whose opener “Into Bios” transitions from field recordings off […]

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Claire Rousay – everything perfect is already here (Shelter Press, 2022)

Chris — Tue, 17 May 2022 17:20:32 +0000

It’s been three months since my last post; in that time I’ve been far from stagnant, listening to about 3000 tracks (according to my stats), so plenty of music. The vast majority of that has been energetic and modern material, hyperpop and it’s ilk, fast and exciting and bombastic and daft material that’s just suffused […]

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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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Lauren Bousfield – Palimpsest (Deathbomb Arc, 2020)

Chris — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 19:05:01 +0000

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot, more than ever, about my relationship with social media. Its greatest power, the ability to shine a light on subjects considered underrepresented, or perhaps even socially taboo, is matched only by its destructive potential and the force of anonymous pitchfork wielding legions. Echo chambers collaborate to make minority issues […]

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Albums of the Decade: Blanck Mass – World Eater (Sacred Bones, 2017)

Chris — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 18:06:59 +0000

Despite all our advances and supposed civility, the modern world exists on a thin and fragile veneer of connective stability. With almost every country now revolving around the black hole of capitalism, obsessed each day with profit margins and stock prices and the dream of eternal growth, it feels like we stretch ourselves increasingly thin. […]

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Albums of the Decade: Clarence Clarity – NO NOW (Bella Union, 2015)

Chris — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 20:43:16 +0000

What does it mean to make a statement? We kind of do it all the time: the choice of clothes we wear, the jewellery we pick out, the certain way we have our hair cut or styled, all of these things exude a statement of self. As an example I started wearing floral shirts to […]

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Mikael Lind – Contingencies (ARCHIVES, 2019)

Chris — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 01:12:04 +0000

The world is filled with possibilities and probabilities: every meeting you have, every new connection made, every chance encounter, changes the course of your future in some way. Even fleeting instances can spiral into unforeseen events in your causal timeline, all because of a moment. As another expermentation into live improvisation by Lind, Contigencies embraces the notion […]

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