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PREMIERE: bolomite jr. – ‘Ants’: hallucinatory soundscapery from Philly

BEN CALHOUN is, by day, a carpenter in the construction industry, keeping body and soul together with a craftsman’s skill; the better to set up him up for when he…

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SEE: The animated video for Samuel Sharp’s ‘Dawn Rises’; the English dawn captured in solo sax

HE’S QUITE the scion of British solo saxophone, is Samuel Sharp; not, perhaps, on the face of it, an easy thing to comprehend, but what he’s offering over what’s now…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Jon Mueller – ‘Family Secret’: an immersive drone palimpsest

Family Secret is a journey of deep interiority: it's implicit that it be served fresh, after dark, suitably lit with no distractions. Clever, eerie and beautiful, it's an album that will continue to reward you

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TRACK: Rachika Nayar – ‘The Trembling Of Glass’: an exciting voice in experimental guitar

HAILING from the borough of Brooklyn, ambient composer Rachika Nayar has left her previous nominative chrysalis as Rachika S behind to spread her wings as a potent ambient guitar sound…

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SEE: Jon Mueller – ‘Welcome’: glorious drone textures from Wisconsin

WISCONSIN musician? Sound artist? Explorer? Curator? – all of these things, Jon Mueller is always seeking new confluences of thought and sound. He may be best known to you as part of…

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SEE: The lyric video for Horsey’s ‘Sippy Cup’: as if The Lemon Twigs were transposed into Brit culture

WELL, you gotta hand it to ’em; they picked their ingredients, they simmered them down, and they arrived somewhere bewitchingly odd. South London four-piece Horsey are as square a peg…

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SEE: the cosmic anime for Battles’ ‘Sugar Foot’; remix EP out now on Warp

TRIPPY NYC art-rock outfit Battles have dropped a cosmic animation for their track “Sugar Foot”, featuring the gliding vocal talents of none other than Yes’s Jon Anderson, and visually referring…

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SEE: CAMERA announce their February album with the feedback motorik of ‘Kartoffelstampf’

NOW ENTERING their second decade as a band, Berlin’s CAMERA are pushing, to borrow the phrase of Ken Kesey, furthur; deeper. They’re poised to release their fifth studio set, Prosthuman,…

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TRACK: Ariel Pink – ‘She’s Gone’: garage-punk cover announces next reissue cycle

LA’S hallucinatory pop explorer Ariel Pink is revving up for the next phase of his reissue programme, delving right back to the beginning of Haunted Graffiti days with the third…

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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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