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Back in 2009, Lotus Plaza (just one of the many projects of Deerhunter guitarist Lockett Pundt) quietly released The Floodlight Collective , a Kranky records long-player comprised of ten loop-based tracks equal parts bedroom-pop and bliss-out ambient. On February 14 th , in celebration of that project's forthcoming follow-up, Spooky Action at a Distance, Portland based label Audraglint will release a limited 10" featuring two tracks for two separate projects – both Lotus Plaza and Nice Weekend, a project comprised of Pundt and his fiancé Shayda Yavari, are presented – of the musician's exo-Deerhunter material. [...]

We're just about a month away from the release of Pre Language , the newest full length LP from the Chicago based Disappears . From the band's site: "Never ones to dither or be indecisive, it's a full-bore assault from the opening track to the last as Disappears attack these new songs with their usual relentless determination. It's a sinister proceeding - debut Lux was preoccupied with death and endings while follow up Guider with protection - but Pre Language finds the band speaking on, of all things, love. Direct allusions to Philip K. Dick, [...]

New Disappears single !!!!! one of the most underrated bands out there ... The Chicago band 2010 debut on Kranky "LUX" was completely overlooked and was a freaking BOMB !!!!!! This is a delight for any THE FALL and groovedelic krautrock fans, the new LP "Pre Language" is out on Kranky 1st of March. "Replicate" is free on Soundcloud Listen | Disappears - Replicate

New Disappears single !!!!! one of the most underrated bands out there ... The Chicago band 2010 debut on Kranky "LUX" was completely overlooked and was a freaking BOMB !!!!!! This is a delight for any THE FALL and groovedelic krautrock fans, the new LP "Pre Language" is out on Kranky 1st of March. "Replicate" is free on Soundcloud Listen | Disappears - Replicate

Three outstanding full-lengths in three years; that's my hypothesis. Both Guider (2011) and...

Dopo una lunghissima assenza da queste pagine, eccomi qui di ritorno, con la lista dei miei dischi preferiti del 2011, quantomeno tra quelli che ho ascoltato. Sono ben venticinque, con una Top 5, seguita da una lista di altri venti titoli in rigoroso ordine alfabetico. E che il 2012 sia almeno altrettanto esaltante! TOP 5 1. THE DECEMBERISTS - The King Is Dead + Long Live The King 2. EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints 3. JOSH T. PEARSON - Last Of [...]

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 [...]

4. Charalambides - Exile Hoewel Tom en Christina Carter in 2007 uit elkaar gingen, zijn ze als het muzikale duo Charalambides onafscheidelijk. Al twintig jaar weten ze met hun combinatie van psychedelische folk, waaierende blues, lichte drones en hallucinerende gitaarscapes menig muziekliefhebber te betoveren. Exile mag (na vijf jaar wachten) geen verassing heten, of het moet de flauwe bocht genomen naar meer toegankelijkheid zijn. Waar Charalambides anno 2011 wel mee verrast, is dat ze na al die jaren en vele releases een album uitbrengt dat misschien wel het summum van de gehele discografie [...]

Contributing writer John Lichtefeld breaks down The Best of the Left, highlights from a banner year for experimental pop, dance, and recordings from left field. (In no particular order.) Oneohtrix Point Never – Replica (Software) Replica is a fantastic step forward for the prolific Daniel Lopatin. It manages to nail a sound somewhere between downbeat and ambient without ever really sounding like either. Gatto Fritto – Gatto [...]

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Every so often the blog world gloms onto something minimal and I'm pretty content with 20112s idolatry of Hecker's fantastic Ravedeath 1972 . I personally have a long and sorted history with drone and minimalsim, spending much of my late teens immersed in it, though little in recent years has caught me. I got pretty excited for Blanck Mass , but didn't find much to cling to upon digging in. Ravedeath, 1972 initially skirted my love as well, until I had the chance to take it in live. Experimental music is a sincere [...]

Tweet This is a first for SGTMT , as far as I can remember at least. We've not done ambient music before, but this is well good. Steve Hauschildt used to be one third of "acclaimed electronic drone trio" Emeralds , but has spent the last four years putting out solo material which I've never heard. (All released on cassette and limited edition CD-Rs, so, you know, it's easily missed). I came across Already [...]

This anniversary record may capture the feel of how an intimate relationship mellows, tempers, and toughens. Tom and Christina Carter celebrate 20 years making music together. This husband and wife duo produce tunes jittery, reflective, ornery, and contemplative. This eclecticism may mirror their relationship as well as their craft. Tom plays guitar, along with Christina, who sings. With only minimal backing by two string players on one track in the New England studios where Exile was recorded over five years, her direct, rather unadorned voice dominates this spare disc. Their prowling,...

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Emeralds' man Steve Hauschildt is the last of the Cleveland three-piece to release a solo record. Tragedy & Geometry utilizes arpeggio patterns and retro synth-work that span across the musician's self-constructed, solitary landscape. Reading the info on the record it seems Hauschildt has thought long and hard on what he is writing about. The title alone is a reference to Greek Mythology – Melpomene (Muse of Tragedy) and Polyhymnia (Muse of Geometry) – deep stuff. Inspiration aside, the music here is an affecting set of electronic instrumentals often sounding like an early 80s [...]

Jangly rock supergroup Bare Mutants made their Coach House Sounds debut this week with a sweet set full of 60s pop-inspired rock'n'roll. Bare Mutants are not just a group that are super, but a band of well-known Chicago misfits containing former Ponys' frontman Jered Gummere on guitar and vocals, Mannequin Men's Seth Bohn on bass, Derek Nelson & the Musicians' Pete Falknor on drums, The 1900s' Jeanine O'Toole on vocals and percussion, and newcomer Leslie Deckard on organ. Check out the quintet messing around with CHS in the 16-minute clip below. You [...]

This only slipped through my radar cause it came out during my holidays but im very happy that i've bumped into it. "Make Me Return" is taken from New Orleans Duo Belong Dronegaze LP "Common Era" out on Kranky and is one of my choices for 2011 BEST ALBUM !!!!!!! Watch | Belong - Make Me Return

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 [...]

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Tragedy & Geometry drops November 14th via Kranky . Check out the streaming downloadable track below courtesy of Kranky . Steve Hauschildt - Batteries May Drain Via Altered Zones

• kranky - steve hauschildt 'batteries may drain'

New music video from Christina Vantzou debut on Kranky tittled Nr.1. The Brussels based artist is also well known as one half of the ambient audiovisual duo The Dead Texan with Adam Wiltzie from Stars of the Lid and with highly reputation in the field of motion graphics. Watch | Christina Vantzou - Prelude for Juan

(Erased Tapes / Kranky, 2011) I've been neglecting posts on Forest Gospel for a little bit, for a variety of reasons which equate, in general, to busyness. But in addition, some sense of exhaustion and, being in a wholly new and largely unfamiliar place, depression. Life doing what life is best at: overwhelming. Not that it has been all bad, but certainly difficult. So I can feel for, in some sense, the emotional weight of what is happening on A Winged Victory for the Sullen . Not that my troubles compare in [...]

• erasedtapes - A Winged Victory For The Sullen (album teaser)

Neo-classical, modern classical, ambient drone, classical ambient, neo- modern drone, how about modern, ambient classical. Christine Vantzou's debut under her own name (she is also part of Dead Texan) is an exceptional foray into one of the above – and will have you taking time out and re-imaging your life within minutes. There are records like this that masquerade as experimental, delivering a few notes for minutes on end, fading into obscurity with every bland bar. And fair play to them – there are those who lap up such tuneless simplicity. But Vantzou brings highs [...]