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The Sight Below – It All Falls Apart (Ghostly, 2010)

Chris — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 20:58:08 +0000

There’s a line in Hannah Diamond’s “Unbreakable”, the final track in her most recent LP Perfect Picture, right at the very utmost end of the album actually, where she sings: “Sometimes good things come from an ending” It’s not that I find myself drawn to this particular lyric often, rather that I feel I ruminate on finiteness […]

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Abul Mogard & Rafael Anton Irisarri – Impossibly Distant, Impossibly Close (Black Knoll, 2024)

Chris — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 19:39:45 +0000

I woke up this morning suddenly at about 4am, one of those disorientating rousings that I get on the odd occasion from a light sleep with vivid dreams, but it took me a good 10-15 seconds to remember where I was. Across the haze of my mind, groggily awake, trying to unwrap the dream from […]

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Rafael Anton Irisarri – Solastalgia (Room40, 2019)

Chris — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 19:44:35 +0000

On the train back from London earlier today my boss was gazing out the window as we left a station of whose name I can’t recall, out at the flurry of high-rise apartment blocks springing up everywhere. She said “people really need to stop having children don’t they?”. It was just an off-the-cuff remark, and […]

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Rafael Anton Irisarri – Midnight Colours (Geographic North, 2018)

Chris — Sat, 17 Mar 2018 18:26:32 +0000

Virtually every year of the Nuclear Age has been charted by the Doomsday Clock, a representation of humanity’s closeness to global nuclear catastrophe. Midnight is the point of nuclear war, and every preceding second, minute and hour before that demarcates our proximity to this event. It changes every year, fluctuating closer and further away depending […]

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The Top 20 Records of 2017

Chris — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 18:01:49 +0000

Well here we are again, HearFeel’s fifth end-of-year list. Firstly I feel that I should apologise: despite the fact that 2016 felt like the year to end all years I still managed to average at least one post per week and 2017 has fallen quite short of that. I have never posted as little as […]

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Rafael Anton Irisarri – The Shameless Years (Umor Rex, 2017)

Chris — Sat, 02 Sep 2017 15:29:42 +0000

I think we’ve all felt the same way lately, of waking up in the morning or coming home from work in the evening and looking at the news or social media and thinking: “When will it end?”. Every day it’s something different, and personally I’ve found myself disengaging from a lot of those platforms to […]

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Rafael Anton Irisarri – A Fragile Geography (Room40, 2015)

Chris — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 17:18:31 +0000

It’s difficult to imagine what life would be like if right at this moment most of our possessions and the tools of our livelihood all suddenly disappeared; unfortunately this is exactly what happened to Irisarri when his removals van was stolen during a house move. The literal loss and the barrage of subsequent emotions is […]

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