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See: Rachika Nayar explores the brittle, fleeting beauty of looped guitars on ‘clarity’ ahead of her EP for RVNG Intl

HERE at Backseat Mafia, we’ve loved the brittle, pretty guitar experimenta of New York’s Rachika Nayar for a good while; check our write-ups for a brace of single drops from…

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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: Sølyst brings a playful, fractured machine-dub-pop with ‘Hold’ ahead of his August album

THOMAS KLEIN, otherwise drummer for the fine post- and krautrock rhythmic venturers Kriedler, also has a natty occasional sideline as Sølyst, wearing which hat he strides out with an album…

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Track: Swiss post-rock trio HOLM bring the shimmer and the dapple to ‘Flickering Leaves’: a second, impressionistic step towards their 2022 album

WITH a months-long concept of dropping one single track every month on the pilgrimage towards their 2022 album, Swiss post-rock trio HOLM have followed up the cinematic and metronomic wash…

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Track: Arandel celebrates the release of ‘InBach vol.2’ with the stirring space pop of ‘Fabula’

ARANDEL, the French artist whose album of expansions and reinterpretations – often, complete genre reshapings – of the works of the great Johann Sebastian, InBach, received deserved acclaim upon its…

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See: Bureau B tease for the Faust boxset with unreleased cine footage from Gunther Wüsthoff to accompany ‘Fernlicht’, from the mythical ‘Punkt’ album

WITH the recent news that Hamburg’s excellent imprint Bureau B is marking the half-century of Faust with a box set entitled Faust 1971-1974 in October (and already available to order – for…

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Track: Typical Sisters splice Tortoise’s rhythmic precision to the trippy deep-space glow of Stones Throw on ‘Grains’

WITH their new album, Love Beam, out in just under three weeks – and following our premiere of their last single, the brightly rhythmic and curious “Recurring Memory” last month…

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News: Sarah Davachi announces an autumn album, ‘Antiphonals’; hear a first track, ‘Rushes Recede’

WHAT is a drone? Over the last decade it’s become a word associated with surveillance, voyeurism, secrecy, stealth and those tired sweeping aerial shots that plague every other film that…

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Track: Cellist Gaspar Claus begins the imaginary journey of his September debut for InFiné with the day-into-night odyssey of ‘Une Foule’

A FRENCH cellist who sees no genre boundary, having worked with artists as fine and disparate as Sufjan Stevens, The National, Jim O’Rourke, Third Eye Foundation, Efterklang, Pedro Soler (his…

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News: Pole announces an August 12″ for Mute; hear the percussive mantra of ‘Rost’

WITH last year’s excellent, enveloping album Fading under his belt, Berlin’s legendary sonic master Stefan Betke, aka Pole, has just dropped a new track, “Rost”, which is taken from a…

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