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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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ALBUM REVIEW: Lama Lobsang Palden and Jim Becker – ‘Compassion’: Chicago meets Tibet in exploratory fusion

Compassion is a complex, often beautiful and sometimes challenging work, exploring the interstices where Tibetan healing meets Chicago instrumentalism

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ALBUM REVIEW: Surprise Chef – ‘Daylight Savings’: a step up and out in cinematic funk

Daylight Savings loses absolutely zero of their off-kilter cinematic charm in stepping up from their debut, All News Is Good News; it's really very ace

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ALBUM REVIEW: Bastien Keb – ‘The Killing Of Eugene Peeps’: an essential novel of an album

The Killing Of Eugene Peeps is an album that hits the previously uncharted sweet spot between Americana, 60s’ European soundtracks and hiphop. It's clever, reflexive, intriguing, questioning. One of the records of the year. Buy.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Mary Lattimore – ‘Silver Ladders’: contemplative and elemental harp exploration

Silver Ladders speaks of an open correspondence with place, with dialogue, with the elements. It's happy to embrace the darker side of being. As such, maybe it's a departure from the pristine shimmer of Hundreds Of Days; but it will provide incredibly rewarding autumnal exploration.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Paradise Cinema – ‘Paradise Cinema’: shimmering, vivacious, percussive, Afro ambience

Paradise Cinema, the self-titled project of Portico Quartet's Jack Wyllie, sings of new Afro-ambient futures to immerse in. It's vivacious, swathing and haunting

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