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ALBUM REVIEW: SHHE – ‘Re:’: remixers take her debut for a delightful spin deeper

Re: confirms SHHE as a great Scottish talent whose musics lend to steaming and bending into pretty new shapes. There’s a couple of artists working out in the sound forges where she is; but there’s a lot of room for music this good.

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Album Review: Underground Lovers release surprise remix collection ‘Shadows’

Spanning their entire thirty career, the new collection of remixes from the legendary Underground Lovers is utterly sublime. It goes without saying that the flesh of a remix is only…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Snowdrops – ‘Volutes’: chamber duo expand the post-classical palette with true beauty

Snowdrops have taken the post-classical palette to another place again with their use of two of the more overlooked pioneering electronic instruments, and produced a work that at its least, is intensely transporting; and in its two twin peaks, “Comma (variation 1)” and “Ultraviolet”, close to too beautiful, heartbreakingly so.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Daniel O’Sullivan – ‘Electric Māyā: Dream Flotsam and Astral Hinterlands’: transporting and dazzling shortform art

Electric Māyā is a collection of short stories; of microfiction. Take your time and don’t breeze through; you’ll be peering through windows into 18 other little spheres. Dazzling shortform

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ALBUM REVIEW: Henrik Lindstrand – ‘Nordhem’: absolute piano grace, recorded beautifully

Nordhem is a love letter to the piano with the lightest touches of other ambience, the slightest nuances and textures; like salted caramel, that tiny sprinkle brings so much richness. It's a delight.

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Album Review: Machinedrum – ‘A View Of U’

As Machinedrum, LA-based producer Travis Stewart has been steadily outputting innovative records broadly influenced by rave, jungle, hip hop and soundsystem music for the past two decades. 2011’s breakthrough album…

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ALBUM REVIEW: The Galaxy Electric – ‘Tomorrow Was Better Yesterday’: a real trip into raw retrotronic deep space

The Galaxy Electric's new 'un is a real psychedelic trip; If you need a route offworld so you can look at back at humankind from a safe distance in the corona of the galaxy’s beauty, and you’re also not afraid to ride the edge of the solar winds, Tomorrow Was Better Yesterday is likely the record for you

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EP REVIEW: Shida Shahabi – ‘Lake On Fire’: eerie post-classical beauty for short film

Lake On Fire is eerie post-classical beauty for the short film of that name: evocative and chilling work from a real talent

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ALBUM REVIEW: Kevin Morby – ‘Sundowner’: simple acoustic truths deliver great profundity

Sundowner is a much more bucolic work than last year's Oh My God. in Kansas he's explored the simple complexity of the 60s' folk-troubadour aesthetic and pulls it off, admirably. It's a damn lovely record.

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ALBUM REVIEW: A Lily – ‘Sleep Through The Storm’: bewitching tronica to guard us from where we’re at

Sleep Through The Storm is eight tracks of beautiful, bewitching, cyclical and warm electronic minimalism, intended to guard us from 2020

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