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Siavash Amini & Matt Finney – Second Shift (Opal Tapes, 2019)

Chris — Sat, 26 Jan 2019 15:33:39 +0000

Do you think about your youth? Now that my teenage years are quickly disappearing behind me I find myself more and more often thinking of the simplicity of life that it afforded. I suppose that’s one of life’s strange little paradoxes: the young crave to be older, to be independent and take control of their […]

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Siavash Amini – FORAS (Hallow Ground, 2018)

Chris — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 18:29:56 +0000

I asked my girlfriend recently “have you ever thought about how it is that you can’t turn off your eyes or ears?”. She was bemused: the notion of disconnecting one’s senses seemed like a ridiculously alien concept. “Why would I ever think that?” she replied, “It’s not possible so why would I waste time considering it?”. […]

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Siavash Amini & Matt Finney – Gospel (Opal Tapes, 2018)

Chris — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 19:18:24 +0000

“I never pray. Why should one pray? What do you do? Supplicate? Haggle? Haggle with God?” Those are the words of Kathleen Jamie from one of her essay poems in Findings. I find myself thinking of it periodically, the effortlessness in which she summarises my own thoughts towards the unfairness of faith, the strange need to submit one’s […]

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Ben Frost – The Centre Cannot Hold (Mute, 2017)

Chris — Sun, 08 Oct 2017 14:57:50 +0000

I like to sit on the fence, play Devil’s Advocate, be ambivalent: is there not, afterall, some merit to both sides of almost any discussion? I have opinions of course, will find myself leaning towards one cause or another, but I always leave room for doubt, for flexibility. In today’s world this attitude seems almost […]

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Albums of the Decade: Animal Collective – Here Comes The Indian (Paw Tracks, 2003)

Chris — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 18:55:21 +0000

An Indian Summer, that’s what Americans call unseasonably fine Autumns (or Fall I suppose), a little slice of warm and dry Summer in the golden months, a final spike of life and light before the Winter darkness begins to intrude. I’ve heard parenthood described in not dissimilar terms; having children and grandchildren is supposed to be rejuvenating, […]

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Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – In Summer (Geographic North, 2016)

Chris — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 14:08:32 +0000

Every Summer represents a short burst of memorable moments, of pent up anticipation and the need to unwind boiled away under a hot Sun somewhere away from home. In the brief time allotted to In Summer, Cantu-Ledesma distills the essence of our seasonal exploits in fleeting snapshots of characteristically luxurious Noise and Drone passages that immerse you in the […]

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Ian William Craig – Zugzwang For Fostex (Patient Sounds, 2016)

Chris — Sat, 05 Mar 2016 16:30:05 +0000

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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Albums of the Decade: Fuck Buttons – Street Horrrsing (All Tomorrow’s Parties, 2008)

Chris — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 19:00:47 +0000

Even in 2016 we still often consider and perceive electronic music in many of its guises to be futuristic and forward leaning in its gaze, its carefully engineered sounds a testament and symbol of Man’s ingenuity and ever increasing sophistication he brings to all aspects of life. Conversely, simple, primal melodies seem to have an […]

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EUS – Luminar (Soft Recordings, 2016)

Chris — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 17:18:51 +0000

There have been a few changes under the hood since EUS’s last record, Sol Levit, in 2013, not least is the almost Black Metal reminiscent album artwork, but Luminar is supposed to be something of a new breed of record within his catalogue. Despite the disclaimer of ““new sounds without forgetting the drone side”, fans of Jose’s older works need […]

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Albums of the Decade: Yellow Swans – Going Places (Type, 2010)

Chris — Sun, 01 Nov 2015 16:30:25 +0000

For our first foray into some of my favourite records of the decade thus far we start at the beginning in 2010; HearFeel was still two years away from being formed and I was only really starting to explore Ambient seriously so I never experienced Going Places around its release date, indeed I had no idea Yellow Swans […]

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