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It seems foolish to try and do justice to 2020 in a paragraph - a year of such huge upheaval, disprution, loss, and in many cases...extended periods of boredom and inactivity. So what better way to reflect than by looking back at the records that have provided the soundtrack to the year? For one reason … Continue reading Albums in heaviest rotation in 2020
With Karma and Desire, Actress has cemented his place as one of electronic music’s most beguiling and confounding artists.
Listening to Reflekzionz reminds me of flicking through a scrapbook of faded photographs of scenes from nondescript British towns. There's something soothing and nostalgic in the grainy distortion of these 12 compositions, and the simple chiming melodies that pierce through the clouds of fuzz.
After more than three decades, Kirstin Hersh's fearless creativity has not diminshed one iota; and the sound her band kick out is as powerful and uncomprimsing as ever. Continue reading
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Third World Pyramid
Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
The Auteurs - Now I'm a Cowboy
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King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard are a band celebrated as much for a constant willingness to experiment as for their prolificness, and ability to package their varied musical experiments into coherent and distinctive albums.
Each of the four extended tracks on Agora is an all-encompassing monolithic wash of sound, with few aural landmarks to guide you once you’re in the midst of it. But despite their towering stature that’s not to say the music isn’t pretty - it’s lovely.
On Psychic Data, TVAM (aka Joe Oxley) combines shoegaze, electro, krautrock, industrial and a truckload of analogue synths to produce a sound that's unique but instantly familiar.
Jon Hopkins - Singularity (2018). Having played this repeatedly over the last couple of weeks, I can say this is a much stronger album than Immunity (Hopkins’ album prior to this, which I belatedly got round to listening to earlier this year). Maybe I judged that album a little harshly and will return to it … Continue reading 19/08/2020 This week I have been mostly listening to…
Fennesz - Black Sea (2008). I find myself listening to much more ambient music these days, as an appropriate backdrop for days spent working from home. Austrian artist, Christian Fennesz is often lauded for the very unusual way he makes use of the guitar in his music: combining it with digital effects to produce something … Continue reading 10/08/2020 This week I have been mostly listening to…
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