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TRACK: Sturle Dagsland – ‘Harajuku’: the new prince of intense, avant-garde pop

DO YOU remember the first time you heard The Sugarcubes, Sigur Rós? How music seemed to have subtly recombined in weird and exciting new ways that spoke of another direction?…

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NEWS: Gazelle Twin & NYX announce March album – hear their distention of The Wicker Man’s ‘Fireleap’

GAZELLE TWIN: love her or baffled by her, you cannot deny the deep, artful, playful, pranksterish, eerie, sheer damn potency of her work. The creative extension of composer Elizabeth Bernholz, her…

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TRACK: Samuel Sharp announces album for the new year; hear ‘Catching Leaves’

BRITISH leftfield saxophonist and composer Samuel Sharp, who has previously partially hidden his light under the recording name Lossy – and whose lovely, dubby, impressionistic single release “Fireworks From The…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Ana Roxanne – ‘Because Of A Flower’: a blissful vocal gem from Kranky

Ana Roxanne’s debut LP for Kranky is a beautiful, ambient album that examines ideas about gender, identity and beauty whilst remaining ultimately soothing. It’s one to return to when in need of solace.

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SEE: Josephine Foster’s take on Daniel Blumberg’s ‘On & On’: reinterpretations album next month

YOU HAVE to say, Daniel Blumberg is one of the absolutely most interesting, unconventional songwriters to emerge on the British scene in many a long year. His album from a…

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TRACK: Rutger Hoedemaekers – ‘The Invention Of The Moon’: fragile wonder from Jóhann Jóhannsson collaborator

YOU MAY or may not be enough of an aficionado of modern composition to have come across Rutger Hoedemaekers, who’s recently signed to FatCat’s superb leftfield and experimental modern composition…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Ian William Craig & Daniel Lentz – ‘FRKWYS Vol.16: In A Word’: fragile, seductive experimenta for voice, tape and piano is

Ian William Craig & Daniel Lentz's FRKWYS Vol.16: In A Word is a fragile and beautiful work for classical voice, piano, and tape decay, roaming across a broad and brittle hinterland between Gorecki and Basinski

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Premiere: Ceiling Spirits release new ambient track, Ultraquiet

Preparing to release the follow up from his lauded a self titled album, Mario Quadracci, aka Ceiling Spirits, there is a new single ‘Ultraquiet’ out that we’re delighted to premiere…

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SEE: Grandbrothers – ‘All The Unknown’: prepared piano meets techno in widescreen

PIANIST Erol Sarp and producer-cum-electronic engineer Lukas Vogel first began to collaborate under the warped familial relationship concept of Grandbrothers eight years ago, looking to investigate the possibilities open to them in…

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PREMIERE: Post Moves – ‘Bob’s Peace In West Texas’: exploring the distorted bliss of the pedal steel

IF YOU’RE an avid reader of these pages, you’ll have come across Sam Wenc only recently in connection with RON, the very fine textural ambient twosome he forms exactly one…

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