Reviews

James Murray :: Mount View (Slowcraft)

Reviews 09/11/2014 by Stephen Fruitman

A sadder album than expected, but what comes from the heart, enters the heart. After Floods and The Land Bridge comes Mount View, “the first […]

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Lawrence English :: Wilderness of Mirrors (Room40)

Reviews 09/10/2014 by Alan Lockett

‘We bear witness to the retraction of a great many social conditions and contracts that have previously assisted us in being more humane than the […]

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Pattern Behavior :: Sentient (Component)

Reviews 09/10/2014 by Pietro Da Sacco

More industrial crunch than infused atmospherics, Sentient is a nostalgic breakaway from previous offerings. Pattern Behavior-Sentient by Pattern Behavior It was bound to happen considering […]

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Savage Grounds :: Over Fences (Lux Rec)

Reviews 09/10/2014 by Robbie Geoghegan

A demented, debased and devastating début from the Swiss duo. It’s taken a while for the Lux Rec co-founder Daniele Cosmo to start releasing, but […]

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Maps and Diagrams :: Alluvium (Handstitched*)

Reviews 09/07/2014 by Alan Lockett

Textured ambience of particulate detail, awash in harmonic liquid replete with grainy infusions, with Alluvium M&D presumably seeks both to represent and in so doing […]

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V/A :: Birds of a Feather 7-12 (Flaming Pines)

Reviews 09/07/2014 by Stephen Fruitman

Twelve birds in a modified birdhouse are way better than two in the bush. Flaming Pines has just wrapped up its beautifully beaky Birds of a […]

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Kyle Bobby Dunn :: Kyle Bobby Dunn and the Infinite Sadness (Students of Decay)

Reviews 09/07/2014 by Alan Lockett

A triumph not so much of removed authorial ego, but of artful detachment. Purveyor of refined works of ambient minimalism since 2005, Kyle Bobby Dunn dials in […]

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Stereocilia :: Murmurations (Echoic Memory)

Reviews 09/07/2014 by Stephen Fruitman

With his guitar, London’s John Scott has found an Archimedean point from which he can move the world. Murmurations by Stereocilia With his guitar, London’s […]

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Dopplereffekt / Objekt :: Hypnagogia (Leisure System)

Reviews 09/07/2014 by Kit Mauldin

Hypnagogia is that of shared reverence for artists and cities across continents and generations, but with so many thrilling new ventures emerging from Detroit and […]

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Fizzarum :: Live 14 (Sealt)

Reviews 09/06/2014 by Pietro Da Sacco

Live 14 delivers ambiguous sonic terrain, ambient hues, segmented experimental analog noise and just a few hints of downtempo melodic flare. There are definite sparks […]

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Unland :: Unland (Self-Released)

Reviews 09/06/2014 by Nocturnal Ghost

Ritualistic, eclectic, mystical, beautiful. Unland is the project of Germany-based Jonas Meyer (piano/fx), Christian Grothe (guitar/fx/sampler) and Shabnam Parvaresh (clarinet). The concept: “to come together […]

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