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Vagon Brei :: Destiny (Further)

Reviews 06/19/2011 by Robbie Geoghegan

The variety displayed on Destiny is quite incredible, as Vagon Brei ferries his listener from ice moons to gaseous giants and on to warring planets […]

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Displacer :: Night Gallery (Tympanik Audio)

Reviews 06/19/2011 by igloomag

Layers of darkened tones are spread throughout, however, the post-industrial insignia associated with Displacer is stripped away in place of a more plasmic flow of […]

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Metaphra :: Kleptocracy (Metaphra)

Reviews 06/19/2011 by Gustave Savy

This album fuses trip hop, metal, DnB, ambient, vocals, live instruments and goodness knows what else and wraps it all up with what is ostensibly […]

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Tommy Four Seven :: Primate (CLR)

Reviews 06/19/2011 by Alan Lockett

Primate seems neither as conceptually crafty nor sonically savvy. That said, Tommy Four Seven perhaps has his sights set on simpler aims, and undoubtedly deploys […]

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Crewdson :: Gravity (Slowfoot)

Reviews 06/13/2011 by Craig Hitchings

Gravity kicks off with a couple of tracks that neatly set out the Crewdson stall: choppy drums, tight basslines, mellow synths, manipulated vocals, incidental noises […]

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Anklebiter :: Queue (Tympanik Audio)

Reviews 06/09/2011 by igloomag

Casually maneuvering electronics, post-industrial, shoegaze and sublime noise in a polished collection of elegant distortion, Queue stays on track without falling into the surplus pile […]

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Terminal Sound System :: Heavy Weather (Denovali)

Reviews 06/09/2011 by Gustave Savy

This LP is still within the realm of shoegaze epic doom, with layers of sounds drifting in and out of the music like sheets in […]

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Miktek :: Quiet EP (33)

Reviews 06/09/2011 by igloomag

Gently brushing against shadows of sonic fury with a subtle pulse of light, Quiet is a well produced plateau of audio distractions, torn between layers […]

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Miasmah :: 3View 2011.7

Reviews 06/09/2011 by James Knapman

There aren’t a great many independent record labels that have successfully released music as willfully weird and wonderful as Erik Skodvin’s Miasmah Recordings, which continues […]

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V/A :: Tasogare: Live in Tokyo (12k)

Reviews 06/09/2011 by Alan Lockett

The serene, almost reverential, music issuing from within these Japanese temples is no doubt site-specific, its context of capture preserving a highly particular atmosphere distinguishing […]

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