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NEWS: The Orb announce live stream date and remixes album – hear David Harrow’s rerub of ‘Haze’
SEMINAL techno groovesters and occasional pranksters of legend The Orb have a brace of excellently exciting news announcements for all you space cadets out there. Firstly, they’re gonna play their first-ever livestream gig to bring a little festive cheer, from 10pm on Saturday, December 19th, entitled ‘This Is Not Here’. What promises to be an immersive, …
TRACK: Northern Portrait – At Attention
FOR followers of Matinee Recordings and contemporary indie-pop as a whole, this is exciting news. Anyone who has listened to Northern Portrait’s debut album, turning eleven this year (!), will acknowledge it as one of the points of reference for the genre. Criminal Art Lovers is simply a collection of instant classics, such as very …
NEWS: Hanya announce tour dates; hear ‘Monochrome’
BRIGHTON’S gorgeous rising dreampop outfit Hanya, who we last heard of back in July, when they declared hometown label Austerity Records’ Cassette Club open with their very fine Sea Shoes EP (read our review), have dropped a new single, “Monochrome”; take a listen below. “Monochrome” is an effortless glide of sweet indie pop with a …
TRACKS: Erland Cooper – ‘Landform’: a digital companion to the Orkney trilogy
ORCADIAN soundscaper and composer Erland Cooper has today released one final digitally streamed companion piece to accompany his beautiful Orkney Triptych. Take a listen below. Its a seven-track, 35-minute ambient accompaniment to his most recent album, Hether Blether with the tracks entitled “Cairn I” to “Cairn VII”, for which he collaborated with artist, producer and …
TRACK: Claude Cooper’s ‘Tangerine Dreams’ 7″ launches Friendly Recordings
OK, OK. Two things. Firstly, do you like a little jazziness to your grooves? Nah, scrub that. Do you like a lot? Do you like a double bass line so up and atcha and tight and taut it could cut a man in half at 60 paces? That kinda thing. Do you miss Fingathing, more …
TRACK: Rival Consoles – ‘Articulation (Midori Hano remix)’ preludes Erased Tapes EPs CD
RYAN LEE WEST, who creates beautiful and properly, actually intelligent dance music that folds softly across to pulsing ambience, isn’t someone to tarnish the bright beauty of his creations by overworking, scumbling away the freshness that he captures in the moment. He exalts in creating quickly. He puts these works out as mini-albums, or EPs, …
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 last album, Pastoral, held a mirror up to the steadfast old folk tales and traditions of Merrie England, fucked that mirror into unimaginable and truer …
ALBUM REVIEW: Soothsayers – ‘We Are Many’: conscious beats science for straitened times
Soothsayers’ latest tickles your ears in all the right spots; the music evolves and shifts from a strong and aware roots through jazz and Afro and more, all the while softly educating you and guiding you and letting you know you have to be watchful, stay alert, and also stay strong and connected. That’s how we’re gonna get through all and any of this.
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 Tower” we had the pleasure of covering here – has announced a new album, Patterns Various, which he’ll be gracing our senses with come mid-February; …
TRACK: Skinshape – ‘Another Day’: second languid cut teases for the December album
IT’S BEEN days, mere days, since Will Dorey, the quiet, guitar-playing minor genius behind Skinshape, dropped his last single, Arrogance Is The Death Of Men – a sun-blissed shuffle, languid on the surface but with an angry, conscious current of lyricism about where we’re at underneath. But then, it’s been a busy year creatively for …