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News: Emma Houton announces debut album of choral ambience for Trapped Animal; hear ‘Watershed’
NEW YORK-based choral ambient artist Emma Houton has announced she’s to release her debut album, The Bath, on Trapped Animal Records, the home of psych-folkster Jeremy Tuplin and others, in May; and you can see the video for the first single from that immersive work, “Watershed”, here today. Born to an Irish father and raised …
Track: Hear the spacious delight of KMRU’s ‘OT’; an album follows in May
WITH twin bases straddling that most musically inventive of cities, Berlin, and the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, electronica artist KMRU knows a thing or two about wide vistas, a far-sighted reach, a breathtaking approach to soundscaping; as you can hear in his first single drop for his new home, Injazero Records, “OT”. Wrap your cortex …
News: Wyldest is set to release her second album mid-May; hear a first song, ‘Hollow’. There’s also a tour in the offing
WYLDEST, the intelligent, dreamy pop project of London’s Zoe Mead, has revealed a new album will appear in the world at the other end of May; and by way of throwing open the French blinds and telling the world, she’s shared a first single from that, “Hollow”, which you can hear below. She takes a …
Track: ROY – ‘Where Did My Mind Go’: Toronto psychester invites you to his garage with some hazy excellence
BROTHERS and sisters: the time hath come to make a little more room in your psychedelic pop heart for a Canadian songsmith sure to seduce your Carnaby Street-lovin’ synapses; please, if you would, put your hands together for ROY. ROY is how Toronto psych scenester Patrick Lefler likes to get dressed for a night on …
Track: Loney Dear – ‘Oppenheimer’; the atomic age examined delicately in falsetto and solo piano
LONEY DEAR is the wholly unusual solo vision of Emil Svanängen, part of the stable of talent over at Peter Gabriel’s Real World imprint, with a curiously timeless and very intelligent take on the solo singer-pianist auteur thing; at once wholly himself but seeming to draw on elements of the drama of early John Grant and equally …
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 …
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 …
Track: Elsa Hewitt’s ‘Inhaler’ gives electronica a good, hard shove into the future; she’s an album out in April
ELSA HEWITT is an artist weaving away at the experimental cutting edges of what you can do with electronica; blending the avant-garde, lo-fi, musics of the dancefloor, hip-hop, dreampop more, marrying it and blending it and, like loose fellow travellers such as Jockstrap and HAAi, taking electronica and giving it a good hard shove into …
News: Mdou Moctar set to release a new album for Matador; hear ‘Tala Tannam’
MDOU MOCTAR is at last gathering momentum. Still, it’s been an epic journey since 2008 when his raw, emotional guitar music first began to spread across West Africa via the DIY network of traded SIM cards. Picked up by Chris Kirkley of Sahel Sounds, who sent Mdou a much-needed left-handed Strat, and which label then …