Can a half-hour long album bear the weight of so much conceptual superstructure? It is certainly flawed insofar as, like Dubai, there is such a […]
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Colin Andrew Sheffield :: Slowly (Mystery Sea)
Another singular volume in the congenial discography of Mystery Sea, the tiny, perfect Belgian label that lovingly packages each of its CDRs in intriguing abstract […]
Esa Ruoho :: Riversmouth (Attenuation Circuit)
The river’s mouth is where the waterborne silt settles in the delta, a boundary zone between narrow and endless. Before debouching there, Ruoho follows the […]
TheAwayTeam :: Star Kinship (Moamoo)
The charm of this album is hard to resist, like a drive-in B-grade movie that’s far too good to be called a turkey. Brian Eno […]
Xladnokrovie 616 :: Gorod (A Beard of Snails)
Gorod is music for the hazardous zones in our midst through which we only pass quickly and reluctantly. [Releases page] Stark black and white photos […]
Chaim :: Alive (BPitch Control)
One listens way beyond the beat, deep into the nuanced hues that makes this a really distinctive – customized – full-length debut. [Release page] Any […]
Coen Oscar Polack :: Spectral Churches (Narrominded)
In their laptops, the bells are stretched, looped and sped up like fire alarms, creating a festive atmosphere that builds a sustained, disorienting crescendo in […]
Biodub :: Reisegefaehrte (Ki)
Reisegefaehrte is a spright colt amongst a troop of placid broncos, moving at a healthy trot rather than the usual easy canter. Not being utterly […]
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