News: The Orb’s Alex Paterson announces autobiography and new label; hear Sedibus’ ‘TOI 1338b’
DEEP space ambient techno overlord Alex Paterson, the good doctor of The Orb himself, has just announced a whole cluster of projects to take us into 2021. Fellow astral travellers: be delighted. Firstly, come May 28th, Alex will be publishing his autobiography, Babble On An’ Ting: Alex Paterson’s Incredible Journey Beyond The Ultraworld With The …
Track: SORBET feat. Maija Sofia – ‘I Heard His Scythe’: Irish producer conceives of the purgatory we’re in on ambitious new project
NEED a palate freshener? SORBET is the new guising and musical project of Irish producer Chris W Ryan, who can enumerate on his CV the scouring rock of Just Mustard; the dreamier, almost House of Love stylings of NewDad, and the Fugazi-meets-jazz melding of his own Robocobra Quartet. Chris is clearly a man of eclectic …
News: Nordic country singer Louien will release an EP in June; hear a first track, ‘Better Woman’
LOUIEN we touched base with just a matter of days back, in an ensemble sense, when she lined up alongside Siv Jakobsen and The Northern Belle for the Nordicana loveliness of “No Rush”, bringing three-part harmonies to a chiming beauty of a tune reminding us to take care of each other. Now Miranda Solberg (for …
Track: The Fuzzy Nerds – ‘Grasshopper’: Greek post-rock nugget gets a new video
WHAT do we know of The Fuzzy Nerds. the band whose excellently quietLOUDquiet song, “Grasshopper”, we’re taking a look at herein? Not absolutely loads, we’ll freely admit, but a scour of the reference library reveals thus, quoted directly: “The Fuzzy Nerds was a post-alternative and a quite experimental indie rock band active for 20 years, with 13 …
Track: Mint Julep’s ‘Pulse’ is a drop of electro-shoegaze brilliance
MINT JULEP, the halcyon, dreamy musical confection of Hollie and Keith Kenniff (aka Goldmind), are to release a new album, In a Deep & Dreamless Sleep, on Western Vinyl on March 19th; and one listen to the gorgeous “Pulse”, the new single, and you’ll see how deliciously apt a title they’ve picked. Beginning in clicky …
Premiere: See the video for Dragon Welding’s ‘Lights Behind The Eyes’: The Wolfhounds’ Andy Golding steps into ambient guitar wonder
DRAGON WELDING; a great name, redolent of fire and the elements, of flicker and sulphur, things made and remade in heat. A great name. And once you learn it’s the solo project of The Wolfhounds’ foremost guitarchitect Andy Golding, the six-string sufi who led that band out from the early swamp blues of “Cut The …
EP REVIEW: Głós – ‘Swimming In Colors’: monumental ambience from Affin
Głós’ first EP for Affin is three whole different, astonishingly enveloping sound worlds. Let’s hope he records an album in this vein; it’d wipe the floor with your consciousness. Intelligent ambience with incredible design and edge, it’s one hell of an opening statement for an artist to make for his new home
News: The latest Late Night Tales comes from Ninja’s Jordan Rakei; hear his Jeff Buckley cover
LATE NIGHT TALES, the free-roaming mix series for mind-expanding chilling most recently brought to us by Khruangbin, has announced its next beguiling instalment, and its first for 2021; it’ll be out come April 9th, and it’ll come from the Antipodean artist Jordan Rakei, whose most recent brace of albums, Wallflower and Origin, came out on …
News: Alessandro Cortini announces new album for Mute, ‘SCURO CHIARO’, in June; hear the thrilling, scouring ‘Chiaroscuro’
ALESSANDRO CORTINI, otherwise, one would suspect, very much brought to your knowledge as a member of Nine Inch Nails, is to release an album for Mute in June entitled SCURO CHIARO; come gather round and hear the lead track, “Chiaroscuro”, herein. It’s deep electronica with a thrillingly scouring and distorted scope, laying beautiful waste to …
See: Dialect – ‘Flame Not Stone’: humanist, wayward and open ambient experimenta
WE’VE covered Dialect before in recent weeks, this outfit being the wholly otherly, seductive, beguiling, blissful and unusual project of Liverpool’s Andrew PM Hunt. That was a month or so ago now; it was the title track from his forthcoming album, Under~Between, and we found it all kinds of trippily wondrous, noting at the time …