
So. How exactly have we blindspotted this one since last May? Talvihorros is London-based guitarphile Ben Chatwin, and Muse regulars need no further introduction to Matthew Collings . Both have alot going on this year: Chatwin, a split album with Damian Valles , and Collings, a soundtrack, and a likely album (or two). Stay tuned for all that. But for now we leave you with the one-year-old A Thousand Plateaus , recorded for their tour last year. Less a synthesis of divergent styles and more [...]
Cold, cold ambience from the Great White North. Valles has been jumping from one genre to another--math rock, post-rock, ambient, punk--for more than a decade now. The Canadian musician has landed on something that feels like ambient, but which he says is more concerned with structured tunes and melodies -- song stuff -- than his past solo stuff. How is it? At times reminiscent of the dark, spooky stuff put together by Norway's Ulver, albeit without the overwhelmingly depressive edge, the record's perfect...

Aural room tint of the day: Darren Harper 's fragrant Lavender Drift , prolific Twisted Tree Line 's 29th offering of a munificent year. TTL is a micro label of Somehow , itself only established in Aug 2010 by Tim Brice and son, Nico (early releases+interview here ). TTL has had up to nine releases appearing per month in its dinky 3" cd-r postcard series featuring new, upcoming and established artists alike, and more are already on the horizon. [...]