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Tim Hecker – No Highs (Kranky, 2023)

Chris — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 17:15:31 +0000

I look around regularly at the moment and wonder to myself: what the hell is happening to this country? The potholes in my city resemble roads in some war-torn republic, not an ostensibly first world nation; our national health service is in rolling crisis; workers are striking in virtually ever sector; food and energy prices […]

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Stars of the Lid – And Their Refinement of the Decline (Kranky, 2007)

Chris — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 19:56:31 +0000

It recently came to my attention that I’m now classed as being in my late twenties, which struck me as an odd thing to consider. My 28th birthday passed by in April with little ceremony, similar to my 27th, both of which were lockdown birthdays, so I suppose on that basis I don’t feel 28. But […]

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Tim Hecker – Harmony In Ultraviolet (Kranky, 2006)

Chris — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 17:35:07 +0000

I was having a discussion a few weeks ago about poetry, prompted by my friend declaring that he “just doesn’t get it”. It was peculiar because I felt I was on that dangerous edge of being condescending in explaining its value and importance as an art form, how he shouldn’t approach it from the vantage […]

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The Top 20 Records of 2018

Chris — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 18:15:33 +0000

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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Less Bells – Solifuge (Kranky, 2018)

Chris — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 18:09:01 +0000

After some fruitless searching for the word “solifuge”, I turned to the press release that I probably should have read in the first place to learn that it is, in fact, a portmanteau of “solitude” and “refuge”. This blending of distance & isolation with a feeling of safety and security speaks to my introversion and […]

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Tim Hecker – Konoyo (Kranky, 2018)

Chris — Sun, 30 Sep 2018 15:09:59 +0000

The universe strains towards entropy, a state of low energy disorder. Complex structures are anathema to it, and there will come a time, trillions of years from now when the last vestige of order in space disappears and the distance between subatomic particles will be thousands of light years. The fact that you are alive […]

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Grouper – Grid Of Points (Kranky, 2018)

Chris — Fri, 11 May 2018 18:38:02 +0000

I often feel like I have a great deal to say, and either nobody to say it to or the inability to articulate myself adequately. It’s an itch, an ache, this feeling of constrained emotion and no way to express it in a satisfying way. I think it bleeds out subconsciously, inviting its way into […]

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Christina Vantzou – No. 4 (Kranky, 2018)

Chris — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 19:11:00 +0000

Vantzou’s work has always had a certain cinematic, gauzy magic to it. Often times it deeply reminds me of Brian McBride’s solo work (unsurprising given their collaborative The Dead Texan project together), but No. 4 begins to feel a little breakaway. Not that this is any way a bad thing; indeed this sentiment of motion and change […]

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Dedekind Cut – Tahoe (Kranky, 2018)

Chris — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 18:44:49 +0000

When I go out for walks in the forest, sometimes I find myself stopping randomly in the middle of the path for a few moments; not to take a break but just to pause and be quiet and still in the world. With nothing but the trees and wind and water around me, I relish […]

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Steve Hauschildt – Strands (Kranky, 2016)

Chris — Sat, 12 Nov 2016 17:09:49 +0000

Rivers carry the most precious resource on Earth: water. Without their sinuous redistribution system that carries water back to the open oceans, the continents would be barren and lifeless places. We owe them a lot, our towns and cities built atop and around them for sustenance and transport. In recent years though, the waterways that […]

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