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Kyle Bobby Dunn – From Here To Eternity (PITP, 2019)

Chris — Sat, 27 Apr 2019 15:42:55 +0000

Five and a half years ago, the cat died. It’s difficult for some people to understand the damage that losing a pet has, people that don’t own animals don’t understand that bonding: I knew him for 14 years, hard to believe now. After that length of time they’re not just pets, mere animals, they’re friends […]

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Aaron Martin – A Room Now Empty (Preserved Sound, 2018)

Chris — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 20:09:05 +0000

It’s been virtually two years to the day since my granddad died. If I close my eyes I can still see the living room, late night, gentle lamp light, palliative care bed up in the corner facing the french doors. That was the last time I saw him, body just clinging on. My grandma still […]

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36 – Black Soma (3Six Recordings, 2017)

Chris — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 18:23:02 +0000

Light and dark, the oldest juxtaposition in existence. The something vs. the nothing, the good vs. the bad. Preceding each piece here is a counterpoint, a piece of subterfuge which casts a glimmer of melancholy and doubt into its matrix: black. Notions of lightness and purity, places of promise and hope, become tainted with a darkling […]

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Theodore Schafer – Portrait (Bridgetown Records, 2016)

Chris — Sat, 16 Jul 2016 15:50:52 +0000

The etch of a jawline, the curve of a brow, the particularities of a swept head of hair: all things that come together to define a person’s face for us, all aspects of their facial physique that make them uniquely identifiable. Sitting at his piano at home and musing over its keys in extremely intimate […]

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Desert Island Discs #3: Kyle Bobby Dunn – Ending Of All Odds

Chris — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 14:30:02 +0000

When it comes to titling his pieces, Dunn seems to surpass all of his contemporaries; tracks can find themselves anywhere between wild tongue-in-cheek self-deprecation to sanguine French pretensions, sometimes to their detriment. It gives me no great pleasure to tell people that one of my favourite pieces of his goes by “Boring Foothills of Footfetishville” for example, […]

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Marble Sky – No Matter How Close (Callow God, 2009)

Chris — Thu, 24 Mar 2016 17:41:54 +0000

Jeff Witscher’s Marble Sky project was an unfortunately short lived affair; for just a few brief years in the late 2000’s we were granted only two records and an extremely limited collection of rare tapes following them. Indeed, No Matter How Close itself was a tour-only promotional and had a run of a painfully elite 30 cassettes […]

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Kevin Verwijmeren – Those Glorious Heights (Icarus Records/Vynilla Vinyl, 2016)

Chris — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 16:38:32 +0000

With the weather’s unusual warmth this year thanks to El Nino it’s felt like there’s been a lack of wintry content on the Ambient radar thus far; Verwijmeren actually doesn’t solve that deficit precisely, but there definitely is a Winter of an emotional kind in the cool, lonely heart of his latest effort Those Glorious Heights. The record […]

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Tropic of Coldness – Demography of Data (Organic Industries, 2015)

Chris — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 15:35:14 +0000

Sometimes it can be hard to know where you’re at with an album, with neither the titling nor the listening experience quite marrying up and providing some meaningful semblance of place and value as we proceed through the tracks. The curiously titled Demography of Data presents itself distantly and oftentimes fails to emotionally engage its subject as it […]

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Kate Carr – Fabulations (Soft Recordings, 2014)

Chris — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 19:40:01 +0000

It’s challenging introducing a record like Fabulations, especially since my experience with Field Recordings as a genre is relatively limited, not to mention that I don’t have an overt fondness for this album, even if I do have a certain admiration for its exploratory vibe and emotional exploration through time and space. Fabulations charts Carr’s migration around the […]

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Torn Hawk – Let’s Cry And Do Pushups At The Same Time (Mexican Summer, 2014)

Chris — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 16:41:39 +0000

Torn Hawk’s Luke Wyatt appears to have outdone himself once again in his second full length of the year; his previous effort Through Force of Will was one I admired for its unrelenting scale and rather unusual presentation, carving out vast tracts of destroyed synth and crooning guitar lines to support its freedom fighting and anarchic tendencies, […]

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