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Mary Lattimore – Goodbye, Hotel Arkada (Ghostly, 2023)

Chris — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 20:37:48 +0000

As we move through the female ambient musician golden age, which I think it’s fair to say is slowly elapsing around us as more women find themselves in increasing prominence, a particular kind of artist seems to arrive at my doorstep more regularly than others. Perhaps that’s an aesthetic or taste driven thing on my […]

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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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Matthew Dear – Beams (Ghostly, 2012)

Chris — Sun, 26 Apr 2020 13:02:39 +0000

I’ve been thinking about her in the mornings: I know I shouldn’t, but in that pillow-space between dreams and consciousness, where thoughts and feelings intermingle with little self-control, the fantasy runs away with itself. I know you’ve been there too: everyone’s had that someone they just couldn’t quite shake from their mind and indulged in tantalising […]

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Matthew Dear – Black City (Ghostly International, 2010)

Chris — Sun, 26 Aug 2018 17:13:21 +0000

Songs as much as anything are simply poems set to music; lyrics are like mini-novels, expressive thoughts articulated in words, carried by the vehicle of the sound. It’s easy to overlook the craft of songwriting, especially in the case of Dear whose productions rely on principally Electronic Dance styles to bear his writing. Infectiously groovy […]

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The Top 20 Records of 2017

Chris — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 18:01:49 +0000

Well here we are again, HearFeel’s fifth end-of-year list. Firstly I feel that I should apologise: despite the fact that 2016 felt like the year to end all years I still managed to average at least one post per week and 2017 has fallen quite short of that. I have never posted as little as […]

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Jacaszek – KWIATY (Ghostly, 2017)

Chris — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 18:31:48 +0000

A collection of pieces styled out of old-English poems and built on fractious and decayed orchestration, KWIATY all at once manages to embody the spectrum of emotions that we have lent flowers and their many varied species: the romantic rose for the lovers; the dainty petals picked off a billion daisies by adolescent crushes; bouquets left to […]

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Lusine – Sensorimotor (Ghostly, 2017)

Chris — Sun, 12 Mar 2017 15:52:05 +0000

Experiences, sights and sensations, whilst all deeply personal and intimate events, are also things that can be shared with others. The effect may be different depending on the individual, but the inputs are often repeatable, the elemental feelings shareable. Many of Lusine’s records touch on these feelings of personal duplicity, of co-opted experience: A Certain Distance involved us […]

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Albums of the Decade: Lusine – A Certain Distance (Ghostly International, 2009)

Chris — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 17:25:11 +0000

There’s always an album that we can point to and say “there, that was the moment”; at the turn of 2010, Lusine’s A Certain Distance found its way to me and changed how I consumed music thereafter. If it wasn’t for this record, I wouldn’t be writing this and HearFeel wouldn’t be here, so I owe a lot to […]

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Albums of the Decade: Lusine – The Waiting Room (Ghostly International, 2013)

Chris — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 17:25:18 +0000

It’s no secret that John McIlwain’s Lusine project holds a pretty special place in my heart, and another review of an all-time favourite from him is coming soon, but for now we find ourselves concerned with the careful excitations and dramas of his most recent record The Waiting Room. As always, we get more than we bargained for in […]

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Heathered Pearls – Body Complex (Ghostly International, 2015)

Chris — Mon, 17 Aug 2015 15:17:58 +0000

Over the years I’ve come to feel that Ghostly’s releases are less exciting, less progressive than they once were, catering now to already saturated audiences and broadening their mainstream appeals thanks to the successes of people like Tycho and Matthew Dear. Maybe it has something to do with their A&R man, the one responsible for […]

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