Ian William Craig Archives - HearFeel https://hearfeel.co.uk/tag/ian-william-craig/ Sounds Into Words Mon, 20 Dec 2021 19:15:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://i0.wp.com/hearfeel.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/cropped-hearfeel-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Ian William Craig Archives - HearFeel https://hearfeel.co.uk/tag/ian-william-craig/ 32 32 76039269 10 Years, 10 Albums: Anniversary Special https://hearfeel.co.uk/2021/12/20/10-years-10-albums/ Mon, 20 Dec 2021 19:15:29 +0000 https://hearfeel.co.uk/?p=3627 Whilst the official 10-year anniversary of HearFeel falls on the 1st February 2022 (a decade on from the first “official” post), this December is the tenth end-of year. Around this time, as many of us are wont to do, I normally piece together some kind of annual retrospective that looks back at some of my […]

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]]> 3627 5 Albums from 2019 https://hearfeel.co.uk/2020/01/06/5-albums-2019/ Mon, 06 Jan 2020 20:05:06 +0000 https://hearfeel.co.uk/?p=3208 I initially wasn’t going to make this post, as I had committed to not doing a Best Of for 2019 (the first year I have not done so), but it felt weird not to at least make a passing remark on some of the year’s offerings. I still do feel it would be unfair to […]

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]]> 3208 Minor Pieces – The Heavy Steps of Dreaming (FatCat, 2019) https://hearfeel.co.uk/2019/11/21/the-heavy-steps-of-dreaming/ Thu, 21 Nov 2019 22:27:44 +0000 https://hearfeel.co.uk/?p=3179 I didn’t learn to drive until I was 21; I know that’s pretty late in some places but here it’s not such a big deal, though I suppose I was a little behind the curve. At the time though I knew when I started that, for whatever reason, I couldn’t have done it when I […]

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]]> 3179 The Top 20 Records of 2018 https://hearfeel.co.uk/2018/12/10/top-20-records-2018/ Mon, 10 Dec 2018 18:15:33 +0000 https://hearfeel.co.uk/?p=3044 Sitting down to write up HearFeel’s sixth end-of-year list I find myself looking out over the vista of downtown Miami at sunset and it strikes me just what a year this has been in so many ways. I find myself in a strange period of life, one that has been interesting and exciting and filled […]

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]]> 3044 Ian William Craig – Thresholder (130701, 2018) https://hearfeel.co.uk/2018/11/08/ian-william-craig-thresholder/ Thu, 08 Nov 2018 17:30:11 +0000 https://hearfeel.co.uk/?p=3013 Life is a grazing notion, a minor event in the passage of non-life. We are all “thresholders”, walking the fine line between existence and non-existence, just trying to make our own way before returning to elemental nothingness again. In the same way that the universe ballooned from nothingness, and our incidental lives along with it, […]

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]]> 3013 Ian William Craig – Short of Breath/Fresh Breath (Recital, EPs, 2014/2018) https://hearfeel.co.uk/2018/07/09/ian-william-craig-short-of-breath-fresh-breath/ Mon, 09 Jul 2018 17:25:39 +0000 https://hearfeel.co.uk/?p=2921 “One hour was sunlit and the most high gods May not make boast of any better thing Than to have watched that hour as it passed” Those are the words of poet Ezra Pound from “Erat Hora”, also sung here in Short of Breath by Ian alongside intimate guitar. It is an ode to a moment, […]

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]]> 2921 Ian William Craig – Slow Vessels EP (130701, 2017) https://hearfeel.co.uk/2017/06/30/ian-william-craig-slow-vessels/ Fri, 30 Jun 2017 20:22:49 +0000 https://hearfeel.co.uk/?p=2651 Something I’ve often said, though I suspect mostly outside of HearFeel, is that one of my overwhelming feelings in Ian William Craig’s music is that of romance. It’s not a sentiment I’ve seen, well, anywhere else actually, and I felt a little bit validated in my thoughts after listening to his latest EP Slow Vessels, […]

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]]> 2651 Ian William Craig – Centres (FatCat Records, 2016) https://hearfeel.co.uk/2016/07/21/ian-william-craig-centres/ Thu, 21 Jul 2016 17:00:46 +0000 https://hearfeel.co.uk/?p=2385 Make no mistake, this is the most dense, most affecting, and most elusive of all of Craig’s records. It’s also the darkest journey since the bubbling distortions of A Forgetting Place (the forerunner of A Turn of Breath) and you will find that no amount of written text will ever totally satisfy the complicated scope of this crushing […]

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]]> 2385 Ian William Craig – Zugzwang For Fostex (Patient Sounds, 2016) https://hearfeel.co.uk/2016/03/05/ian-william-craig-zugzwang-for-fostex/ Sat, 05 Mar 2016 16:30:05 +0000 https://hearfeel.co.uk/?p=2260 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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]]> 2260 The Top 20 Albums of 2015 https://hearfeel.co.uk/2015/12/06/the-top-20-albums-of-2015/ Sun, 06 Dec 2015 14:30:41 +0000 https://hearfeel.co.uk/?p=2138 Well readers it’s finally come to that time of the year again where everyone slows down, kicks back, looks fondly at the year that was, and of course eagerly consumes the glut of end of year lists that come out of it to criticise everyone else’s taste in music. I shouldn’t need to remind everyone that on […]

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