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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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Blanck Mass – World Eater (Sacred Bones, 2017)

Chris — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 13:28:22 +0000

I have come to dread reading the news; in fact I often feel like I actively avoid it, since every day seems to present such a dim view of the state of current affairs that I cannot bear to be reminded by the incompetence of people. Fortunately, World Eater not only seems to share similar sentiments but […]

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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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Loess – Pocosin (n5MD, 2017)

Chris — Sat, 04 Mar 2017 15:29:22 +0000

I can just about see the dockyards from my window, overcast light touching the myriad steel structures, steam rising out of the domed incinerator and climbing lazily into the low clouds. They’re more evocative at night, transforming into shadowy behemoths that punctuate the sky with their light-topped caps, metal facets gleaming under floodlights. It sometimes […]

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Jesse Somfay – Levamentum [Aqua Regia] (Tipping Hand, 2016)

Chris — Sun, 03 Jul 2016 15:07:46 +0000

Having disappeared for five years or so to explore more experimental electronic music horizons under his Borealis alias, Jesse Somfay is finally back producing music under his own name. But that exploratory period has left its mark and bridged some gaps and his latest effort, Levamentum, finds itself in distinctly new and untrodden ground for a Somfay […]

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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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ODAE – If Things Had Memories, The Stories They’d Tell (Morning Hour Records, EP, 2014)

Chris — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 21:04:26 +0000

A lack of clarity and consistency is a challenge for artists both old and young; establishing a central theme, developing it and maintaining it whilst keeping things active and innovative is an uphill struggle even for the experienced, so I think we can cut 16 year old Ruairi O’Brien under his ODAE alias a little […]

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Aphex Twin – Syro (Warp, 2014)

Chris — Sat, 27 Sep 2014 16:47:28 +0000

Just another review for an already over-populated Internet of Aphex Twin's latest epic, "Syro"

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Hanetration – Murmurist EP (2014)

Chris — Tue, 09 Sep 2014 17:54:40 +0000

Hanetration expresses his tiredness for the habitual in the gorgeous, semi-IDM movements of "Murmurist"

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Lusine – Arterial (EP, Ghostly International, 2014)

Chris — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 12:30:54 +0000

Emotional strife continues in Lusine's latest gorgeous production for Ghostly, "Arterial"

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