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Minor Pieces – The Heavy Steps of Dreaming (FatCat, 2019)

Chris — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 22:27:44 +0000

I didn’t learn to drive until I was 21; I know that’s pretty late in some places but here it’s not such a big deal, though I suppose I was a little behind the curve. At the time though I knew when I started that, for whatever reason, I couldn’t have done it when I […]

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Matthew Dear – Black City (Ghostly International, 2010)

Chris — Sun, 26 Aug 2018 17:13:21 +0000

Songs as much as anything are simply poems set to music; lyrics are like mini-novels, expressive thoughts articulated in words, carried by the vehicle of the sound. It’s easy to overlook the craft of songwriting, especially in the case of Dear whose productions rely on principally Electronic Dance styles to bear his writing. Infectiously groovy […]

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Ian William Craig – Centres (FatCat Records, 2016)

Chris — Thu, 21 Jul 2016 17:00:46 +0000

Make no mistake, this is the most dense, most affecting, and most elusive of all of Craig’s records. It’s also the darkest journey since the bubbling distortions of A Forgetting Place (the forerunner of A Turn of Breath) and you will find that no amount of written text will ever totally satisfy the complicated scope of this crushing […]

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Dominic Coppola – Beloved (Sequel, 2016)

Chris — Fri, 11 Mar 2016 17:36:42 +0000

Valentine’s Day every year naturally incites the production of inevitably romantic, often sanguine, creations and Coppola is another to fall into its annual trappings; across fourteen pieces in Beloved he spins light drones and tape loops all lost in a mist of reverb after posing a simple question in the liner: “Do you think of me as often […]

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Albums of the Decade: Lusine – The Waiting Room (Ghostly International, 2013)

Chris — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 17:25:18 +0000

It’s no secret that John McIlwain’s Lusine project holds a pretty special place in my heart, and another review of an all-time favourite from him is coming soon, but for now we find ourselves concerned with the careful excitations and dramas of his most recent record The Waiting Room. As always, we get more than we bargained for in […]

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Slow Meadow – Slow Meadow (Hammock Music, 2015)

Chris — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 17:21:16 +0000

The first signing to Marc Bryd’s Hammock label is one that feels totally at home; featuring the man himself on both the opening and closing pieces here, Hammock’s influence is an apparent entity throughout the album, but at the same time it’s a very distinct and noticeably less guitar influenced record that seems to lean […]

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