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See: A live video for French post-rockers BRUIT ≤’s ‘The Machine Is Burning’: the fire and the fury in the Église du Gésu

BLENDING the longform, addictive unfolding blueprints of postrock with a more pastoral chamber quartet aesthetic and thus very much bringing to mind the lately little-visited territories established by the gorgeous…

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SEE: Toulouse post-rockers BRUIT ≤ announce April album; see the video for ‘Renaissance’

ITS MEMBERS having been through the major label wringer, Toulousain post-rock outfit BRUIT ≤ had no desire to make the same mistakes again; and its members decided to strip back…

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Track: Ritual Cloak – ‘White Noise’: an elegy for a friend in cooltempo electronica

CARDIFF duo Ritual Cloak is the meeting of Daniel Barnett, formerly of Samoans, and drummer and producer Andrew Sanders, in which musical space between them they find some pretty beguiling,…

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EP REVIEW: Årabrot – ‘The World Must Be Destroyed’ EP review; an album follows

A SURPRISE EP was released by the Norwegian band Årabrot, the duo of Kjetil Nernes and Karin Park, a few weeka ago, featuring a striking roster of guest musicians: Dana…

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TRACK: Ritual Cloak – ‘Opaque Crater’: brooding post-rock soundscapes from Cardiff

CARDIFF duo Ritual Cloak is the meeting of Daniel Barnett, formerly of Samoans, and drummer and producer Andrew Sanders, in which musical space between them they find some pretty beguiling,…

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TRACK: FLOCKS – ‘Grammar King’: think Tortoise tooting a line of pure Squarepusher

WHEN you think of a great line-up combination, a trio that can really pull it off is a truly great thing: think The Jimi Hendrix Experience, think The Jam, even…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Hugar – ‘Music For The Motion Picture The Vasulka Effect’: graceful ambience for art documentary

HUGAR is the exploratory Icelandic music project of Bergur Þórisson and Pétur Jónsson, a pair of talented musicians hailing from Seltjarnarnes, which rejoices in the fact it’s the smallest town…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Yair Elazar Glotman and Mats Erlandsson – ‘Emanate’

FATCAT’s boutique 130701 imprint is one of the leading go-tos for the experimental edge of modern composition: that zone where classical bleeds and blends with modern rock and electronic thinking,…

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EP: Got.Knees – A Century of Middle Class Love

Sitting somewhere between ambient and alt-rock, Got.Knees – all we know about him/her is that its a solo project from the UK – has released a new EP, A Century…

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SEE: Turin’s Cijan set out their postrock manifesto with “Homecoming”

HAILING from the northern Italian city of Turin, Cijan are quickly making a name for their themselves on the domestic scene. Their debut longform set, REA-0919, was released last year;…

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