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See: London Grammar share the video for new single Big Picture
London Grammar match epic visuals to their soaring soundscapes in the video for new single ‘Big Picture’. Following the unexpected release of ‘Rooting For You’ on New Year’s Day, the band – made up of Hannah Reid (vocals), Dot Major (keyboard, drums) and Dan Rothman (guitars) – have released their second single of 2017 ‘Big …
Track: Bonobo – No Reason
You probably already know Bonobo‘s music, and even if not, you will have heard it as a soundtrack to our lives for 15 years, as he remains one of the go-to names for atmosphere in film, games, tv and adverts. “No Reason” is a new track, and taster from the new album Migration (on Ninja …
News: Brian Eno To Release New Album ‘Reflection’
On January 1st, 2017 Brian Eno will release a new ambient double LP called Reflection via Warp Records. Reflection is a follow-up to this year’s The Ship. According to Eno: “Reflection is so called because I find it makes me think back. It makes me think things over. It seems to create a psychological space …
Album Review: analogue creatures living on an island – Immersion
The ambient project of Wire’s Colin Newman (along with his partner Malka Spigel from Minimal Compact) has been in existence since 1994, and after a hiatus of seventeen years, Immersion is back. Pre-album release track ‘Fireflys’ is a beautiful, hypnotic vortex of arpeggios and repetitive synth loops, rising and falling and washing over the listener. …
News: The Orb release COW / Chill Out, World!
The Orb (Alex Paterson & Thomas Fehlmann) are back, hot on the heels of their last release Moonbuilding 2703 AD, a project which took six years due to the circumstances behind its production*, COW has taken just a measly six months** Described as their most ambient album yet it features only the occasional presence of buoyant, …
Album review: Collected Works – John Foxx – Cathedral Oceans I – II – III: 5 vinyl LPs in album-style deluxe 12 X 12 book set
Edsel records have released The Complete Cathedral Oceans – all three editions of John Foxx’s ambient classic.This marks the first ever vinyl release for the trilogy of Cathedral Oceans (1997), Cathedral Oceans II (2003) and Cathedral Oceans III (2005). The music is spread over five 12”s and is accompanied by 12 X 12” art print …
News: John Foxx – Cathedral Oceans deluxe 5 vinyl reissue
John Foxx is one of those artists who inspires such loyalty among his fans, that every release he makes is greeted with rabid expectation, so the news that his elegant trilogy of Cathedral Oceans (1997), Cathedral Oceans II (2003) and Cathedral Oceans III (2005) is being given the comprehensive deluxe treatment, will no doubt be …
See: Anil Sebastian releases new video for track Human
Human is the first single taken from ‘Mesonoxian’, the debut album from London-based artist Anil Sebastian, who is also founder and leader of the London Contemporary Voices Choir. Well versed in creating soundscapes, both vocal and otherwise, ‘Mesonoxian’ (which means “pertaining to the hour of midnight”) was produced Produced by Anil, his brother Ingmar and …
See: New video from Channel D for The Other
Ahead of the release of their album Unravelling on July 22nd, Channel D, essentially the project of writer-singer, visual artist and film-maker Nick de Grunwald, has released new visuals for the track The Other. UNravelling is a follow on from his much admired 2013 album ‘Mosaic Of Disarray’, but the record – co-produced by Nick …
See: Kelsey Lu releases new video for Empathy
With her debut EP Church, out now via True Panther Sounds, North Carolina’s Kelsey Lu has released a video for the track Empathy. Already having worked with the likes of Blood Orange, Kelela, Wet and Organized Noize and opened for Florence + the Machine and Grimes in Brooklyn and Kendrick Lamar, Kamasi Washington and Jamie …