Album Reviews
Shannon Lay :: Past The Veil
Folk, electronics, pop and songs left deliberately untidy
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Records are followed back into the things that made them: rooms, instruments, damaged tape, field recordings, weather, family histories and particular stretches of land. Folk, ambient, experimental music, electronics and song meet here without a fixed hierarchy. Hwael listens closely to the music, and to everything that has entered the recording with it.
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Portland Vows :: Cuckoo
Ambient electronica, rural calendars and damaged seasonal memory
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The Durutti Column :: Renascent
Post-punk, fragile guitar, recovery and music rebuilt through other hands
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Hiraeth :: Kasteiung
Dark ambient, ritual noise, religious doubt and penitential landscapes
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Charlotte Jacobs :: Word Passed the Time
Experimental electronics, spoken voice, memory and unstable architecture
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The Twelve Hour Foundation :: Expanded & Repurposed
Library music, analogue synths, broadcast idents and modernist nostalgia
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The Green Kingdom :: Vespera
Ambient, piano, guitar, evening light and slow-moving memory
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The New Honey Shade :: Stillwater Rooms
Harp improvisation, room tone, overtones and photographic memory
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LULUC :: Sweet Thief
Folk, fingerstyle guitar, quiet arrangements and contemporary unease
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Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan :: People & Industry (special edition)
Hauntological electronica, postwar modernism and unfinished futures
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Katherine Priddy :: These Frightening Machines
Contemporary folk, full-band arrangements, literary songs and quiet tension
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TENGGER :: SKY
Ambient electronica, cosmic drone, family voices and sky-sea drift