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Kelly Moran – Ultraviolet (2018)
Five minutes into “Water Music,” the narcoleptic third track on Ultraviolet, the latest document of sublime piano renderings from Brooklyn composer Kelly Moran, everything stops. Moran spends the time...
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Ian William Craig – Thresholder (2018)
Thresholder consists of previously unreleased pieces recorded by Canadian composer Ian William Craig in between the release of his 2014 breakthrough A Turn of Breath and the more ambitious and refined...
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Factory Floor – A Soundtrack for a Film (2018)
It’s something of a rite of passage for electronic artists to compose music for the classic sci-fi movie Metropolis, and with the simply named Soundtrack for a Film, Factory Floor join the ranks of...
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Niagara – Apologia (2018)
Over the past seven years, Lisbon label Príncipe has become closely aligned with the dynamic style known as batida, a homegrown hybrid of Afro-Lusophone diasporic sounds like kuduro, tarraxinha, and...
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James Murray – Falling Backwards (2018)
…undoubtedly one of UK producer James Murray‘s most fully realized projects. Many an ambient recording derives its impact from textural design; while it’s hardly lacking in that department, this one...
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Colin Self – Siblings (2018)
There’s a noise-techno stomper right at the heart of Colin Self’s new album, Siblings. Fragments of mangled vocals play hide and seek with a pounding beat: “Whaaaa,” one yell-yawns on repeat, while...
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Beacon – Gravity Pairs (2018)
Intrigued by Walter Russell’s fringe science theories — an inspiration obvious only in the album’s title — Thomas Mullarney III and Jacob Gossett discovered a way to metaphorically reframe a third LP...
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Yamaneko – Aquarius Echo Chamber EP (2018)
Every two months, Longform Editions, an offshoot of the long-running Preservation label and overseen by founders Andrew Khedoori and Mark Gowing, issues a new set of immersive and, yes, long-form...
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Delroy Edwards & Dean Blunt – Desert Sessions (2018)
Though both Delroy Edwards and Dean Blunt are singular artists, they actually have a lot in common. They’re mercurial to a sometimes frustrating extent. Both make all kinds of music and put it out in...
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Elektro Guzzi – Polybrass (2018)
Austria’s Elektro Guzzi have made a career out of taking established musical ideas and approaching them unconventionally. Specifically, instrumental techno music. Without the aid of computers, loops or...
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Selling – On Reflection (2018)
Two years after Gold Panda’s last release Good Luck and Do Your Best and hot on the heels of Simian Mobile Disco’s Murmurations LP, the former and Jas Shaw of the latter have collaborated to form...
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Planningtorock – Powerhouse (2018)
On Powerhouse, the fourth LP (and first in four years) from Jam Rostron (aka Planningtorock), the UK musician delivers an undeniably emotional and intimate game-changer, starkly addressing gender...
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Oi Va Voi – Memory Drop (2018)
Formed at the dawn of the millennium by six young Londoners with diverse musical roots, Oi Va Voi made an instant impact with their debut album Laughter Through Tears. Produced by Grammy award winners...
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Objekt – Cocoon Crush (2018)
TJ Hertz probably needn’t have used an artist pseudonym for his work, but for whatever reason, he has released music as Objekt for the past few years. Originally somewhat of a prodigal son of the...
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Shit & Shine – Bad Vibes (2018)
Barmy noise rockers, Shit and Shine have always straddled the boundary between the rational and the preposterous in their off-kilter, experimental dance excursions. Sometimes the music is simply a...
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I-LP-ON –ÄÄNET (2018)
Finnish duo Pan Sonic came up in the mid ’90s along with the post-rave surge in electronic dance music. Although some of their releases would sit well enough in DJ sets of the time, their mindset was...
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Public Memory – Demolition (2018)
Public Memory is a mixture of damaged and dubbed-out percussion, unfurling synths and sparse sampling – all strung together by producer Robert Toher’s spectral tenor. The project’s sophomore LP,...
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Oren Ambarchi & Jim O’Rourke with special guest U-zhaan – Hence (2018)
Hence is the third collaborative release from Oren Ambarchi and Jim O’Rourke, following on from 2013’s Behold. Building on the refined combination of electronics and acoustic instrumentation found on...
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Jean-Michel Jarre – Equinoxe Infinity (2018)
There’s something a bit poignant about the process of music growing older. When the tide is in it’s all a calming blue, when it goes out you’re left with the imperfections that were always underneath....
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System – Plus (2018)
The three Danish musicians otherwise known as Future 3 (Thomas Knak, Anders Remmer, and Jesper Skaaning) debuted their System project with a self-titled album of minimalist experimental dub tracks in...
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