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Album review: Neil Cowley – ‘Hall Of Mirrors (Reflected)’: ambient piano is tripped further into leftfield on this excellent remixes set

THE REMIX album is a really interesting thing, a gathering of the tribes in a meeting place that’s arisen from the sphere of dance music, in which like minds bring…

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Track: Slip inside the gorgeous, dubby blur of ‘The Visitant’ as Scottish ambient duo Cahill/Costello announce an enthralling debut album

KEVIN DANIEL CAHILL and Graham Costello, guitarist and drummer respectively, first set off on the path that would lead to them wedding as a musical act with an oblique and…

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See: Devendra Banhart and Noah Goergeson unveil an expansive, meditative ‘Refuge’ double set for August; come float within ‘Into Clouds’ and ‘In A Cistern’

THEIR first meeting may have been entirely inauspicious – the one enquiring of the other whether in fact he was, indeed, a French drug dealer – but once that initial…

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News: Hear a first track as Field Works announce a companion to the arboreally beautiful ‘Cedars’ entitled ‘Maples, Ash, And Oaks: Cedars Instrumentals’

BACK in spring we both reviewed and adored an album from Field Works: less a band, more a collective exploration of the various musics that cross over and find each…

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News: The luscious, genre-defying electronica pop trio Afternoon Bike Ride announce a debut album for September; hear a first single, ‘Dog Years’, feat. Middle School

A MEETING of delicate pop like minds: musician-producers David Tanton (aka Rhoda/Tender Spring), Éloi Le Blanc-Ringuette (aka Thomas White), and Lia Kurihara (aka LIA) met on the fertile Montréalais music…

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Track: Clark releases ‘Suspension Reservoir (Air Version)’ – a new take from the mini-series, ‘Lisey’s Story’

WITH his first album for his new home Deutsche Grammophon, Playground On A Lake, now out in the world – and a far-reaching, ambitious record it is, too, spread over…

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See: Sedibus drop visuals for the superb, spacey excursion of ‘Unknowable’, returning to the planet we call ‘Earth’

HE MAY have entered his sixth decade on this particular rock spinning in space – and don’t even get me started on the passage of time, I mean how can…

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News: Yann Tiersen announces worldwide tour dates, including London’s legendary Roundhouse; watch the video for ‘Poull Boujer’ from August’s ‘Kerber’

BRETON composer Yann Tiersen has shared the mesmerising new video for “Poull Boujer”, the latest track he’s divulged from his August album for Mute, Kerber – you can watch that…

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Track: Dau – ‘The Death Of Smut’: intimate, beautiful pump organ drone introspection for Spirituals

A MEMBER of rather fine instrumental quartet yndi halda alongside James Vella, whose album Sleep Through The Storm under his A Lily persona we received rapturously last October, Phil Self…

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See: The spectacular, cellular-level abstractions accompanying the slow beauty of amiina’s ‘Beacon’

WITH music this beautiful, it’s so very good to see them back: the Icelandic quartet amiina, who’ve been away for half a decade, have returned to the fray with the…

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