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Siavash Amini & Saaad – All Lanes of Lilac Evening (Opal Tapes, 2020)

Chris — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 21:27:36 +0000

I’m adrift, lost in a sunset I can never recapture. They’re all like that, aren’t they? An elusive, effusive event, all the same and yet never two identical. The Sun sliding over the horizon, the sky reconfiguring its palette into nightly tones, its phase shift into darkness never twice the same, nor the scenery, nor […]

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5 Albums from 2019

Chris — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 20:05:06 +0000

I initially wasn’t going to make this post, as I had committed to not doing a Best Of for 2019 (the first year I have not done so), but it felt weird not to at least make a passing remark on some of the year’s offerings. I still do feel it would be unfair to […]

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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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