Simon lives in the Hampshire countryside, enjoys car boot sales and cultivating his vegetable garden, and as an artist, is himself a kind of force […]
Author: Stephen Fruitman
Krzsysztof Orluk & Bai Tian :: Structure of (Etalabel)
Krzsysztof Orluk & Bai Tian combine traditional and contemporary sounds into ambient structures. The eight pieces are based on bits and pieces constructed by Bai […]
Jüppala Kääpiö :: Animala Corolla (Omnimomento)
It’s a jungle inside Animala Corolla, constantly chattering birds and braying beasts with whom the duo sing (not necessarily in key), chant nonsense—or can they talk […]
Cloaks :: Versions Grain (3BY3)
Cloaks’ debut album Versus Grain was a sophisticated, logical extension of the marriage of dubstep and dark hop, with its original, fibrous roots in Mick […]
Cathal Rodgers :: Thirty-Nine Years of Decay (Striate Cortex)
With a long string of louder work behind him as Wereju, Rodgers continues to investigates a liminal world of dreams, unknowing, displacement, oblivion and ends, […]
Eyeliner :: High Fashion Mood Music (Crystal Magic)
A counter-revolution to the lo-fi nostalgia for cassette wobble and vinyl crackle, vaporwave, as this burgeoning genre has been dubbed, celebrates the state-of-the-art, the hi-def, […]
Celer :: Rags of Contentment (Dronarivm)
Ragas of calm, resignation to luscious ennui and irrepressible resolve. The record apparently brings to mind Nepal and Eno’s Discreet Music for Will Long, and […]
KWJAZ :: KWJAZ (Not Not Fun)
An uneasy-listening analogue bubblebath, more remnants of the recent past but stretched, dubbed and arranged with consummate skill into delicious alienations of the familiar. Another […]