postrock
TRACK: Lama Lobsang Palden and Jim Becker – ‘Blessings’: where acoustic postrock meets Tibetan chant
2020, eh? As it wearies on, the need for music, the need for the good things, for stillness, to find our own thread to follow through it all, becomes ever more necessary. An album, then, as much 2020 as it perhaps 1968 is the forthcoming album on Drag City from Lama Lobsang Palden and Jim …
ALBUM REVIEW: El Ten Eleven – ‘Tautology’: ambitious, thrilling post-rock triple set from LA duo
YOU have to admire the scope and ambition of Los Angeles postrock duo El Ten Eleven, who are about to release their eighth full-length LP, Tautology, on September 18th. You certainly get a lot of bang for your buck. They’ve been releasing it bit by bit in the digital world for months now: Tautology I …
TRACK: Ana Roxanne’s ‘Suite Pour L’invisible’: haunting and lush
KRANKY. It’s a label that this unerring step with beautiful and complex ambient music, one which it’s been plying now for a quarter-century and more. The Texan imprint has just unveiled its latest signing: and once more they’ve struck the proverbial gold. Los Angeles-based Ana Roxanne comes into the fold on the back of one …
TRACK: El Ten Eleven – ‘Shimmered’: yearning and dynamic postrock from their upcoming triple
EL TEN ELEVEN have really pushed the boat out on their soon-coming latest, Tautology: it’s a massive, conceptual triple set, predicated on a disc each representing youth, middle, and old age. In fact, they’ve been dropping the album in thirds right across the year, with the stunning energy of Tautology I reaching our ears on …
TRACK: Mary Lattimore – ‘Pine Trees’: otherwordly harp delicacy
MARY LATTIMORE, the Los Angeles-based harpist who charms all who enter her graceful, ambient world, has just released the beautiful and glimmering second single from her forthcoming album for Ghostly International, Silver Ladders, which will be out come October 9th. Take a listen with us. She recorded her new one down in Cornwall, adoptive home …
TRACK: El Ten Eleven – ‘You Are A Piece of Me, You Are A Piece of Her’: a ‘gazey post-rock lullaby
LOS ANGELES postrock duo El Ten Eleven, who’ve been out there quietly carving away in their own instrumental space since 2004, have dropped a beautifully shoegazey, postrock lullaby, “You Are A Piece of Me, You Are a Piece of Her” in advance of their ambitious triple album Tautology, which is out via Joyful Noise come …
Premiere: Werner Niedermeier & Gareth Whitehead – ‘Nineteen92’: taking ‘tronica out past Khruangbin
PROLIFIC producers Werner Niedermeier and Gareth Whitehead have been working together for about a decade now. As well as their busy DJ commitments and running their own record labels they have have found time to put out releases on a myriad of imprints, including Compost, Kling Klingon and Poker Flat. They’re gearing up for their …
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; and they were on the bill at Milan’s destination fest for all things shoegaze and post-rock, A State of Flux. New single “Homecoming” tickles all …