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Saåad – A Crimson Shore (Hands in the Dark, 2023)

Chris — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 16:30:06 +0000

Over the years, Saåad’s records have plotted various courses through arenas of darkness: older EPs and records found themselves grinding with excoriating rumblings and static washes, rocks in the tumbledryer. As time has passed a cooler, more abstruse sound has emerged, one of glassy depths and twinkling fears sliding by in the abyssal reaches beneath. […]

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10 Albums From 2020

Chris — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 18:37:18 +0000

Well well well, here we are again. 2020 marks the ninth end of year list for HearFeel as we come to the end of its 8th year. And what a year it’s been. Every time I sit down to do these look backs, it always strikes me how much seems to unfold over the course […]

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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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The Top 20 Records of 2018

Chris — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 18:15:33 +0000

Sitting down to write up HearFeel’s sixth end-of-year list I find myself looking out over the vista of downtown Miami at sunset and it strikes me just what a year this has been in so many ways. I find myself in a strange period of life, one that has been interesting and exciting and filled […]

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Saåad – Présence Absente (Hands In The Dark, 2018)

Chris — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 19:38:35 +0000

Love in the time of the World Wide Web. A billion voices all jostling for cyber space, humanity ostensibly closer to one another than ever before, so why is it that all we can feel is nothing for our fellow men and women? Absent Presence is an apt title indeed for Saåad’s 5th full length (not counting […]

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FOUDRE! – Earth [OST] (Gizeh, 2017)

Chris — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 18:50:45 +0000

I am often sceptical of soundtracks as standalone media; much of the impact of a film is lost without its music accompaniment, but in many ways the music alone suffers more without its visual guidance. The course of the music feels inextricably linked to the motions and timings of the on-screen activity and, without it, […]

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The Top 20 Albums of 2016

Chris — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 20:41:09 +0000

I had thought to write something about 2016 here, as I often do in these end of year lists, but what is there to say? Personally, societally, what a mess of a year it’s been; it feels like I’d rather not sit here and dwell too much on the past 12 months but at least […]

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Saåad – Verdaillon (In Paradisum, 2016)

Chris — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 12:51:43 +0000

If there’s one thing that centuries of Christendom has refined it’s the size, power and inspiration of its countless churches and cathedrals around the world. But despite their outward imposition, their endlessly ornamented surfaces, gilt statues and millions of tonnes of polished marble, there is a resident power designed to impress and command all those who […]

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The Top 20 Albums of 2015

Chris — Sun, 06 Dec 2015 14:30:41 +0000

Well readers it’s finally come to that time of the year again where everyone slows down, kicks back, looks fondly at the year that was, and of course eagerly consumes the glut of end of year lists that come out of it to criticise everyone else’s taste in music. I shouldn’t need to remind everyone that on […]

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EUS, Postdrome & Saåad – Different Streams (Soft Records/Grains of Sand, 2015)

Chris — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 17:25:53 +0000

It’s both surprising and not to see that Eus, Postdrome and Saåad have returned for another collaborative record. Oftentimes it seems that projects involving multiple artists like this don’t pursue further attempts at creating music together, but for many I think that’s down to the fact that their matchups are nowhere near as perfect as these […]

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