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. [...]
Delicious new Oneohtrix Point Never again paired with other Daniel Lopatin outlets - after FRKWYS last time out , his rich body of collaborations, remixes, live takes & offcuts (almost all downloadable, by the way). & while his self-made video for the new release's haunting title track puts a kind of self-mocking emphasis on neo-kosmische's cartoonish side (drawing on the " saddest version of the most violen soviet cartoon ever ", according to one YouTube commenter ) - oddly, in a way, [...]
Final re-up for aggregation... A companion piece to yesterday's look at Experimedia's outstanding label sampler - previews of the seven released albums included in LMYE's picks, which if we're being completist also included future releases from Celer , From The Mouth Of The Sun ( Jasper TX & Aaron Martin ) & Sean McCann ... Anyway, below hear Black Swan 's wispily playful but more often saturnine 8 Movements [...]
Re-up for aggregation... Clearly you can't compare a compilation with a single release like the astounding Peregrine . But even if it necessarily lacks the same coherence & singular artistic vision the new Experimedia label sampler (which includes a chunk of Lawrence English 's instant classic, incidentally) is still one of my albums of the year. I don't even know if the sampler 'exists' as a formal release. Perhaps its only life is digital - as an online [...]
Re-up for aggregation...A minor-key piano figure makes its stately, affecting way across a sound stage of buzzing riffs, cloudy fuzz & squealing tones: the arresting restraint of Replica , the delicately balanced title track of the new Oneohtrix Point Never , contrasts markedly with the earlier Sleep Dealer 's pot pourri of squelchy synth gestures... Also, proving a point [...]
A companion piece to yesterday's look at Experimedia's outstanding label sampler - previews of the seven released albums included in LMYE's picks, which if we're being completist also included future releases from Celer , From The Mouth Of The Sun ( Jasper TX & Aaron Martin ) & Sean McCann ... Anyway, below hear Black Swan 's wispily playful but more often saturnine 8 Movements (a movie [...]
Clearly you can't compare a compilation with a single release like the astounding Peregrine . But even if it necessarily lacks the same coherence & singular artistic vision the new Experimedia label sampler (which includes a chunk of Lawrence English 's instant classic, incidentally) is still one of my albums of the year. I don't even know if the sampler 'exists' as a formal release. Perhaps its only life is digital - as an online curation of streams [...]
A minor-key piano figure makes its stately, affecting way across a sound stage of buzzing riffs, cloudy fuzz & squealing tones: the arresting restraint of Replica , the delicately balanced title track of the new Oneohtrix Point Never , contrasts markedly with the earlier Sleep Dealer 's pot pourri of squelchy synth gestures... Also, proving a point [...]
Destello from Ivan Villafuerte on Vimeo . A certain juxtaposition of image and sound that gets into just the right zone of resonance and removal: videos by Ivan Villafuerte , stumbled on while researching d_rradio . The above features "The Atomium - Part Two" by Stars of the Lid and "Early Evening Reverie" by Auburn Lull. More of the vision thing: "Still In A Storm" and "Death Of The Fair Green Veil" by d_rradio Opsin from Ivan Villafuerte on [...]
Footnotes coming out of our ears, or something like that...anyway, a batch of compelling new material that usefully augments some of LMYE's posts this week . Firstly, two more of Tim Hecker 's diverting piano 'sketches' for the immense Ravedeath, 1972 - more muted & reflective than Sketch 5 (covered here ), but still highly affecting. [...]
All the way f rom Yann Novak 's lovely diaphanous tranquillity to Sean McCann 's analogue storm freak-out, seven more or less exceptional recent pieces to pass along after they lodged in these ears. Also featuring Machinefabriek (sultry slo-mo solo [made still more pungent by an epic Earlabs remastering], X-raying sea shanties in his slow-burning Piiptsjilling collab with Jan & Romke Kleefstra & [...]
Stop all the clocks, etc: a Tim Hecker bonus disc? A remix album? It's not quite clear yet what exactly Dropped Pianos is, beyond a new release via kranky on October 10 connected in some as yet slightly murky way to this year's magnificent Ravedeath, 1972 (track 1: The Piano Drop ). Oh, & a doubtless welcome addition to one of modern music's most compelling discographies , [...]
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. [...]
It's all too easy to forget, but Sohrab is still out there & still needs support: one powerful & gratifying way of providing some is to buy his solidarity releases - You Are Not Alone , You Are Not Alone II & Shouting At Dictators . Not only do all proceeds help fund his appeal for asylum in Germany, but the trio also adds valuably to A Hidden Place - [...]
Talking of Oval , a s andblast from the past - a woozily abrasive track of the day from his monumental Ovalprocess album (Zomba, 2000 - stream in full below, along with the following year's Ovalcommers ). Ovalprocess - Untitled 05 by [...]
Let's party like it's 1998*. The soundtrack? A sudden, notable eruption of new music from the near-holy trinity of Jan Jelinek , Oval and Pole , three pioneering titans of experimental electronica. Jelinek has just launched only his second release as Farben since 2004 - a self-released 12" of deviant disco, like [...]
End Summerless by Albient on Mixcloud A mix to accompany impressions of a summer now apparently ending, with a strange sense of somehow never having started; not worth talking about perhaps, but listening's the thing. Conspiring with fellow-travellers in ambient-drone and atmospheric electronica, your humble LMYE contrib al (alias albient for mixage and audio wall-scrawl ), compiles a document of days, waxing lyrical into the bargain: "To soundtrack this summer of wan [...]
A Kyle Bobby Dunn six-pack? Don't mind if I do. A sextet of intensely tasty, recently revealed treats from the post-classical composer's archives & pre-release work. Together, these new-ish "epic & dronelogical" workouts help frame the mournful beauty & muted fanfares of this year's fine Ways of Meaning (Desire Path), the latest refinement of Dunn's utterly uncommon sound. "new songs to bore you all to tears [...]
Revelling in one day's plenty while trying not to drown in it, a quick & dirty acknowledgement of thrilling new music from five distinct, diverting voices - Chris Herbert , talkingmakesnosense , Seaworthy , Tone Color & Dentist . Second & last in this list have not featured on LMYE before, but will again... [...]
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