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The Lonely Bell – The Absent Years (Oscarson, 2024)

Chris — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 15:39:58 +0000

CoViD was this hole in the world that life fell into, swallowing growth, swallowing time, swallowing love. I remember saying to one of my friends that it felt like I’d lost two years of my life: who I was, who I wanted to become, things I wanted to do, all became things frozen in a […]

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Lia Kohl – The Ceiling Reposes (American Dream, 2023)

Chris — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 11:50:16 +0000

I like travelling, it feels energising and important. Not just because it seems to appease the novelty-craving centres of my brain, cracking the monotonous ice rime that forms over the habitual rhythms of normal life, but also because it exposes you to other people, their culture and ways of life. To never leave home is […]

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Arovane – Sinter (Laaps, 2023)

Chris — Sat, 25 Feb 2023 16:15:41 +0000

I had a conversation yesterday with my therapist about stress, or rather in my case the anxiety of imminent stress. I’ve always thought that stress was the result of pressure, number of tasks*deadlines if you will, and that it’s something that just sort of happens to us. But he framed stress in a way that […]

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Claire Rousay – everything perfect is already here (Shelter Press, 2022)

Chris — Tue, 17 May 2022 17:20:32 +0000

It’s been three months since my last post; in that time I’ve been far from stagnant, listening to about 3000 tracks (according to my stats), so plenty of music. The vast majority of that has been energetic and modern material, hyperpop and it’s ilk, fast and exciting and bombastic and daft material that’s just suffused […]

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Raum – Daughter (Yellowelectric, 2022)

Chris — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 19:53:50 +0000

I was travelling with work the last few weeks for the first time in over two years, our trans-Atlantic in-person stuff having all been stopped as a result of the C Word. It’s a curious thing, travel for work; on the one hand it puts a complete pause on your life while away, and on […]

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Olli Aarni – Loput (Laaps, 2022)

Chris — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 20:56:41 +0000

There’s this moment, in the first of Aarni’s two track Loput, “Aallokossa”, where the tidal drones and oscillating tones that form the listless atmospherics give way. For a brief, shining time there’s a feeling of dissolution, the melancholic vibrations melting away like sandcastles facing a relentless sea, all aquamarine and insistent. It paves the way for a […]

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Duane Pitre – Omniscient Voices (Important Records, 2021)

Chris — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 17:09:13 +0000

Are you happy? I had a throwaway conversation briefly with someone recently, where I stipulated that life is suffering first and foremost and ultimately a pursuit of fleeting moments of happiness, whereas he contended that it was more the other way around. His view was that we are more creatures of aversion to suffering and […]

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Federico Durand – Herbario (Laaps, 2021)

Chris — Sun, 13 Jun 2021 12:02:15 +0000

In the last few of years I’ve become increasingly obsessed with the colour green. I suspect this originated watching Tarkovsky films, whose use of colour in landscapes scenes is intoxicating to me, and then further entrenched following a return to the familial homeland of Ireland. Emerald Isle, I had forgotten, is a name rightly earned. […]

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Taylor Deupree – Mur (Dauw, 2021)

Chris — Sat, 01 May 2021 11:35:33 +0000

There’s something in quietude and closeness that changes us, changes the way we speak and listen and think. Hushed tones and whispers, sounds drawn in close so as to not break the unspoken rules of the space. The mind and ear bend in to meet them instead, adaptive and receptive, narrowing focus on the mumbling […]

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Anna Von Hausswolff – All Thoughts Fly (Southern Lord, 2020)

Chris — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 15:48:35 +0000

There’s a question I sometimes see being asked of artists which I find bothersome: “Where do you get your ideas from?” On the face of things it appears to be an innocent and straightforward query, a request for some insight into the creative process and the way in which the artist dreams up their material. […]

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