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Track: Dead Slow Hoot – An Island Keen To Float
You should never skim through music judging it’s first 30 seconds alone. Let “An Island Keen To Float” be a cautionary lesson for both listeners and writers, myself included. The latest single from Sheffield quartet Dead Slow Hoot may seem to be going down a meandering, C30 style path of earnest presentation and emotive content. …
Album Review: Stuart A Staples – Music for Claire Danis’ High Life
Out on its physical formats on May 3rd via City Slang is Tindersticks’ Stuart A Staples soundtrack for Claire Denis’ first English language film, High Life. In the gaps between Tindersticks records / haitus’, Staples has worked extensively with Davis, and this feature, focusing on a group of criminals who are tricked into believing they will …
Album Review: North Sea Navigator – The Memory Clears the Space for What’s Needed
Former Gravenhurst sideman Paul Nash has been trading under the name North Sea Navigator for a while now, expanding the line up from himself to a three piece and then to a four piece band recently, but its his solo eponymous album for Felt that is getting its commercial release, titled ‘The Memory Clears the …
Album Review : Nicklas Sørensen’s ‘Solo 2’
Nicklas Sørensen most recently blasted dreamy, psychedelic swaths of guitar on Papir’s 2017 record V. Within that Danish three-piece psych rock outfit, Sørensen can go from post-rock stoicism to 60s fuzzed-out freak out in seconds flat. He’s erased those boundary lines that seemed to box in the “guitar hero”. Jazzy introspection, distorted wah wah, and progressive lines …
See: Mark Pritchard releases new video for Come Let Us (feat. Gregory Whitehead)
Mark Pritchard has been releasing music under different guises for nearly 3 decades (Global Communication, Reload, Africa Hitech, Harmonic 313, Harmonic 33, to name a few) but reverted to his real name for 2016’s critically acclaimed ‘Under the Sun’. He’s returning this spring with ‘The Four Worlds’, an eight track collection, in the same musical …
Track: North Sea Navigator – Pure Modulations in Space and Time
North Sea Navigator is essentially the project of former Gravenhurst guitarist Paul Nash. Ahead of his/their debut album ‘The Memory Clears the Space for What’s Needed’ out on Blurred Recordings on April 13th they’ve shared a new track, Pure Modulations in Space and Time Now a four piece, with the additions of Charlotte Nicholls (Portishead, …
Album Review : Nicklas Sorensen’s ‘Solo 2’
Nicklas Sørensen most recently blasted dreamy, psychedelic swaths of guitar on Papir’s 2017 record V. Within that Danish three-piece psych rock outfit, Sørensen can go from post-rock stoicism to 60s fuzzed-out freak out in seconds flat. He’s erased those boundary lines that seemed to box in the “guitar hero”. Jazzy introspection, distorted wah wah, and progressive lines …
Album Review : Tangerine Dream’s ‘Quantum Gate’
It’s not very often that a band can continue on after the heart of that band passes on. There’s just something that goes when the center of a musical universe supernovas into the next existential plane. It seemed that when Edgar Froese passed on in early 2015 his constant musical project for the last 45 …
Album Review : Carlton Melton’s ‘Hidden Lights’
Whenever you drop the needle on a Carlton Melton album you can almost always expect to be taken on a journey. Their albums are these sonic doorways into alternate realities that are sometimes serene and sometimes gritty. The musical world of Carlton Melton is an often gauzy trip into hazy synths, swaths of guitar, and …
Track: Locust Toybox – Saptiro
Whether the decision to release Drownscapes, a new (as described on the press release) sonic adventure from Locust Toybox, aka David Firth, on the eve of Halloween was accidental or planned, there’s a certain other worldliness and beauty about it that can be at once beautiful and slightly unsettling. Although best known as an animation …