ElevenElevations II by Albient on Mixcloud At the risk of overplaying the 50s riff, here's notice of another 50 - this being the sum of tracks selected from LMYE's Festive 50 + 50 (lookee here and here ) and spun into three assemblages for LMYEers' listening (pl)leisure. Here's the first, ElevenElevations I . [...]
After Monday's first instalment , a further 50 exceptional artists/releases to complete LMYE's 2011 Festive 50 + 50. Not, of course, that our centurions' were the year's only worthwhile sounds - we're intensely conscious (particularly after relishing others' deeply-felt - & very different - lists, notably Anti-Gravity Bunny 's, Gacougnal 's, The Liminal 's (& its contributors'), The Milk Factory 's, Suborno 's, Fluid Radio 's & 5:4 's) of how much more thrilling music 2011 had to offer & how partial even our expanded selection must inevitably be. [...]
The new year already, but these ears are still clinging to 2011...desperately & rather absurdly trying to hear everything & anything released in the old year that might bear on our Festive 50 + 50. Anyway, time to commit: this expanded iteration of past year-end list-making once again tries to get round the one-eyed arbitrariness of shoe-horning all the vitality in a year's listening , the tangents, wilfulness & inevitable shifts, into a handful of its 'best' releases. T [...]
LMYE's New Label of the Year hardly released a thing in 2011. Not much of a basis for recognition, you may think. But however minimal its output what did come out of Desire Path was exquisite - & if there's a better record in 2012 than its next release (which almost made it out this year anyway, so gets co-opted for these purposes - along with its debut release from late last year...) these ears will be very, very surprised (& thrilled, obviously)... A label " focused on creating distinct pathways " [...]
LMYE's Under the Radar Label of the Year exerted an ever-increasing influence on these ears as 2011 ground on. So much so that by the end of the year Dekorder 's often thrilling, usually genre-defying output would come to claim large chunks of the imminent 'Festive 50+50' of releases that mattered most to us this year... Even with label chief Marc Richter's outstanding Coldplay, Elvis & John Cage surfacing elsewhere ( En/Of ), the highlights [...]
After a truly exceptional year of releases from the likes of Area C , Deep Magic , Aaron Martin , Nickolas Mohanna , Fabio Orsi & Quiet Evenings , why isn't Preservation being showered with awed acclaim? Like helloSquare , its predecessor as LMYE's Neglected Label of the Year , Australia's remoteness seems to play a role here. Though since Preservation's focus this year (reminiscent of its compatriot, Room40 - our recently named Label of the Year for [...]
As noted , we share our recognition of a 2011 label of the year across two great decade-long curatorial efforts linked by this year's unmatched Lawrence English release, The Peregrine (below hear an exclusive stream of its Heavy Breath of Silence [...]
You could make too much of it, clearly. But still it seems significant that LMYE's Labels of 2011 (like our picks in 2010 & 2009 , for that matter) base themselves in somewhat out of the way locations. Geography surely helps explain these exemplary curators' distinct, even singular aesthetics. So too do the double lives of this year's double choice (linked by one exceptional artist). Neither is simply a conventional [...]
Like a man in Uniform ? Check Aria Rostami 's nice new and re-stitched threads on 'bulb man David Newman's growing download offshoot, Audiomoves . With previous Form , some with LMYE , his Uniform is in effect a re- Form , or at least in part, with several new originals thrown in to further pique, the whole being mastered by LMYE favourite , Lawrence English . The artist speaks: "Form was about the deconstruction [...]
Rich oneiric fertilizer from backwoods guitar-alchemist and dream compos(t)er, David Tagg . LMYE regulars may recall his excellent Pentecost featured in our Festive 50 last year; his sadly unsung Waist-deep Seas of Milk had been hymned - largely solo - here way back in 2008. Tagg releases have previously come through labels like his own Expanding Electronic Diversity , and sister labels, Second Sun , and Install , joint enterprises with kindred spirit, Brian Grainger/Milieu , but more of his prolific output is [...]
From the blurred, skittering brilliance of his 1997 collaboration with Jim O'Rourke & Nicholas Collins to his enlightening, radical remixes of both the relatively obvious ( Ryuichi Sakamoto , Squarepusher , Takako Minekawa ) & somewhat less so ( Jimanica , Pizzicato 5 ) & on to current live-only workouts, these ears are once again revelling in the fecund hinterland & endless textural trickery of Markus Popp's Oval - triggered this time by his 11-track 'countdown' of web-only bonuses ahead of last Friday's release of retrospective flush-out (& multi-media extravaganza) [...]
These ears have been twitching in anticipation e ver since Vladislav Delay disclosed his first album for Raster-Noton in a recent interview with LMYE . The first excerpts from Vantaa seem to redeem all that expectancy - Narri ('fool' if your Suomi needs work...) in particular is a beautiful, beguiling piece in which a lop-sided rhythm, something like a wind-up toy starting to spasm, meshes with a shifting bed of ratchet, [...]
These ears have been twitching in anticipation e ver since Vladislav Delay disclosed his first album for Raster-Noton in a recent interview with LMYE . The first excerpts from Vantaa seem to redeem all that expectancy - Narri ('fool' if your Suomi needs work...) in particular is a beautiful, beguiling piece in which a lop-sided rhythm, something like a wind-up toy starting to spasm, meshes with a shifting bed of ratchet, [...]
Kitsch? Quatsch...taking ironic noodling & trilling into boombastic outer space: a new Leyland Kirby 7" &, " for those Clayderman moments we all experience from time to time as we struggle for balance " , a tinkling exclusive (not to LMYE, ahem...) linked to his eager to tear apart the stars . Stream all below. Not sure these [...]
A sextet of tracks these ears would have been much the poorer for not having heard. Mostly from new or imminent releases ( Pascal Savy 's ravishing warm flood of an EP, Liminal [Feedback Loop], David Wenngren & Christopher Bissonnette 's deep journeying, darkly glowing The Meridians of Longitude and Parallels of Latitude [Home Normal] & Illuha 's delicate, faintly off-kilter [...]
A darkly diverting Benoit Pioulard swag bag to follow up yesterday's post on Calder from his new Play Thelma . Besides a preview of this plangent, resonant EP ( " Recorded at home throughout spring and summer 2011 with guitar, harmonium, voice, magnetic tape, bowed bells, cello, warnophone, and music box " ), below hear a rewarding trio of unreleased workouts - two (including the exceptional, knotty I hate that I have this [...]
Slow off the mark, as ever, but finally registered the new Benoit Pioulard EP, Plays Thelma (on Desire Path ), via the lulling, blurrily ruminative Calder (today's Track of the Day, for what that's worth). Blurb: " Thelma is best described as a place existing in between—a lake within a haze. Against its concave mirror, the sonic territory of Benoît Honoré Pioulard—documented across three acclaimed [...]
Getting high on Ben Fleury-Steiner, Alex Cobb & Aquarelle's heady deliveries on Low Point , LMYE label of 2010 , the former with The Places That Find You , download here and white vinyl LP released tomorrow, the latter with a Split EP , download here , also with LP to follow. Previously on LMYE, heads were upped to Ben's Infraction gem, Keep a Weather Eye Open . Now, 'drawing upon his deep love of minimalism and influenced [...]
Our provost of Cambridge, Simon Scott showcases long learning, a venerable past & ears sharper than a King's College spire on a Track of the Day exclusive to the vinyl version of his new Bunny for Miasmah (also stream the CD release in full below). Don't know quite how those halving colons fit into a badger's lair, but SETT::: :: : is a fuzzy, fragile soundscape of scudding clouds & reflective filigree. [...]
The grand intensities of Nicholas Szczepanik 's symphonic drones seem to demand an equally grand critical response. This is about as far from that as imaginable - but his roaring, brink-of-unravelling epic Years Compressed into Minutes Without Any Concept of Self - a "t rack I recorded in 2010 for an as-of-yet to be released compilation on Experimedia" - is too arresting, too masterful & too ravishing not to at least acknowledge as a Track of the Day. [...]
Lend Me Your Ears
The Shins: “September” (b-side of “Simple Song” 7”)
St. Vincent - 'Cheerleader'
Jay-Z & Kanye West - Ni**as In Paris (Explicit)
OK Go - Needing/Getting - Official Video
Ladyhawke - Black White & Blue
Childish Gambino - "Heartbeat" (Official Music Video)
James Blake – Live Album
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