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Paper Dollhouse – The Sky Looks Different Here (2018)
Who are Paper Dollhouse, who funds their nefarious activities, where do they fit into the rabbit warren we lionise so? A duo of Nina Bosnic and Astrud Steehouder, resident in Suffolk and London...
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Anenon – Tongue (2018)
Brian Allen Simon’s Anenon project has slowly grown out from the electronic beat-scene into the freewheeling modern classical universe, taking cues from every crevice of experimental music in the...
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Hirola – Hirola (2017)
Electronica duo Hirola released their debut mini-album through new music group Phantom Limb, headed by FatCat alumnus James Vella and former Royal Albert Hall exec Mark Pearse. The word ‘hirola’ refers...
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LTO – Storybook (2017)
Bristol-based producer LTO operates in the crepuscular half-light where the moodily methodical piano progressions of Ludovico Einaudi meet the textural synthesis of Eno, atop the glitchy undercurrents...
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Tor Lundvall & John B. McLemore – Witness Marks: The Works of John B....
In 2003, the late John B. McLemore, subject of the podcast S-Town, made an ambient album, remixing the work of painter and musician Tor Lundvall. Nine years later, he sent the project to Lundvall, with...
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Ryuichi Sakamoto – async: Remodels (2018)
When Ryuichi Sakamoto returned to record shelves last year with async, after a frightening bout of throat cancer, there was a sense of relief that he was back making beautiful music. We were grateful...
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Poliça & s t a r g a z e – Music for the Long Emergency (2018)
Music for the Long Emergency perfectly encapsulates the confusion and anxiety haemorrhaging from our society on both a personal and political level. While the first track on Poliça’s collaborative LP...
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ionnalee – Everyone Afraid to Be Forgotten (2018)
Swedish singer, songwriter, producer and filmmaker, Jonna Lee, brings the evolution of her ten-year creative career to a new peak with the release of her maiden ionnalee offering, Everyone Afraid to...
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Nostalgia 77 – Fifteen (Best Of) (2018)
Fifteen celebrates the work of Ben Lamdin – the musical maverick behind the Nostalgia 77 guise – with an eclectic compilation of releases spanning fifteen years of jazz, hip hop, blues, funk,...
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Solomon Grey – Human Music (2018)
Human Music is released on Mercury KX and is a collection of intricately crafted songs, which showcase Solomon Grey’s cinematic-style emotive soundscapes. The album delves into themes of choice, love...
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Christina Vantzou & John Also Bennett – Zin Taylor’s Thoughts of a Dot as it...
Christina Vantzou says her first first full-length musical collaboration with John Also Bennett begins with “a dot near a rock.” And if that sounds a bit abstract, well, it is and it isn’t. The duo’s...
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Gigi Masin – KITE (2018)
Out of nowhere, Italian ambient hero Gigi Masin has returned with a new album. Masin — best known thanks to his stellar string of releases on the Music from Memory label — released KITE on his Bandcamp...
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Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto – Glass (2018)
Ryuichi Sakamoto and Carsten Nicolai have had a long and fruitful partnership. What started with Nicolai adding high frequencies and low pulses to Sakamoto’s delicate piano ended up — through four...
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Primitive World – White On White (2018)
Ecstatic Recordings co-founder Sam Willis (a.k.a. Primitive World) released new album called White on White, inspired by the 20th century painter Marlow Moss. For those of you out of the early- 20th...
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Omit – Enclosures 2011-2016 (2018)
Since his first self-released cassettes in the early 1990s, New Zealand’s Clinton Williams AKA OMIT has been on a singular and personal musical journey. Described as one of the greatest outsider...
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Jeffrey Koepper – MantraSequent (2017)
American composer and synthesist Jeffrey Koepper has been honing his craft over a period of about 15 years and 9 previous releases, strongly influenced by the Berlin School sequenced electronics of...
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Jeffrey Koepper – Transmitter (2017)
Transmitter documents a June 18th, 2017 performance given by Jeffrey Koepper in Philadelphia on WXPN’s Star’s End Radio broadcast. Using vintage analog synthesizers and sequencers, the long-standing...
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Conjoint – Earprints (2000, Remastered 2018)
The first move for Demdike Stare’s DDS label in 2018 is a remastered reissue of Conjoint‘s 2000 album, Earprints. Conjoint was a five-man outfit founded by David Moufang, AKA Move D. It also featured...
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Onra – Nobody Has to Know (2018)
Onra is a shapeshifting, French, electronic musician born Arnaud Bernard. As electronic music continues to pivot and shift year over year and even month over month, Onra’s new record is a future funk,...
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raison d’être – Alchymeia (2018)
Raison d’Etre’s Peter Andersson has released over a dozen albums under this moniker. All of these are satisfying, if not genre-defining, examples of ethereal dark ambiance. Alchymeia is his first new...
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