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Daniel Avery & Alessandro Cortini – Illusion of Time (Phantasy, 2020)

Chris — Sat, 23 May 2020 17:07:18 +0000

I seem to end up talking about time a lot. Time, time, time. Part of this, it seems, is that as my friends and I get older, we find ourselves increasingly coming to terms with the fact that we’re moving (or have moved) beyond our youth. Adult life has its perks obviously, but as we […]

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Madeleine Cocolas – Ithaca (Room40, 2020)

Chris — Sun, 17 May 2020 14:34:27 +0000

When I was fifteen I went to Iceland on a school trip; we spent a week there, travelling up into the North and then circumnavigating the East coast to return to Reykjavik. It was one of the most incredible experiences of my life, not only seeing this very alien foreign country in all its icy […]

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Test Card – Music For The Towers (Sound In Silence, 2020)

Chris — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 21:15:17 +0000

Oh it’s been Winter for a long time, or at least it feels like it has. The seemingly endless wind and rain and grey skies: the suppression of mood has really become palpable in recent weeks. One of my friends said recently she couldn’t wait for Summer and being able to sit out in […]

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Anthéne – Weightless (Home Normal, 2019)

Chris — Tue, 07 May 2019 20:39:55 +0000

When you reach the peak of a parabola, there is an instant of micro-gravity, of weightlessness. Right at the height of the arc, just before the swing into the downward plunge, you’re in suspension in a period of freefall. Mirrored on both sides by a long uphill struggle on the one hand and a steep […]

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Billow Observatory – III: Chroma/Contour (Azure Vista Records, 2019)

Chris — Sat, 16 Feb 2019 19:13:15 +0000

Have you ever thought back and considered when the first time you enjoyed your first sunrise and sunset was? I’ve thought about this before, perhaps never vocalised it here, but it is fascinating to me that a memory like that seems lost to time. Instances come close, whether these were the first moments that I […]

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36 – Fade To Grey (A Strangely Isolated Place, 2019)

Chris — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 19:23:34 +0000

I caught a Mark Kermode review recently for Alita: Battle Angel (I have not personally seen the film); in his outline he said that it was “set in a dystopian future”, adding “is there any other kind?”. It was almost a throwaway comment but it suddenly struck me that very few perceptions in Science Fiction […]

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Kevin Verwijmeren – Dett (2018)

Chris — Sun, 07 Oct 2018 15:25:27 +0000

It is hard to make a decision that we know to be the right course of action when we know that that path will lead to pain. It is the burden of conscience and morality, of responsibility. How we perform in those moments defines who we are, and perhaps shapes who we want to become: […]

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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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Poemme – Moments In Golden Light (Constellation Tatsu, 2018)

Chris — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 18:18:25 +0000

In Summer, sunrise is an elusive beast. There are no end of sunsets for those of us who enjoy the later hours of the day, but the early climb is not one I frequently witness at this time of year. This is a shame: I think I slightly prefer the opening throes of sunrise over […]

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Ben Rath – Anything Is Possible (Sound In Silence, 2018)

Chris — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 16:45:02 +0000

The act of doing something is more than just a moment of creation or a period of action. It is a flow from conception to desire to visualisation to motivation to enactment. It is a series of hurdles, each as challenging in its own right as the last, that must be overcome before that glimmering […]

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