album review
Album Review: Richard Wileman – ‘Arcana’
UK MUSICIAN Richard Wileman has been making spooky gothic, mostly instrumental music for more than 20 years under the name Karda Estra. In more recent years he’s made a few albums under his own name, the latest being Arcana. Released in September of this year and loosely based on the Tarot, Arcana is a work …
ALBUM REVIEW: Adam Stafford – ‘Diamonds Of A Horse Famine’: atmospheric folk set from the notebooks
Diamonds Of A Horse Famine is a lyrically precise and freewheelin’ folk set, reviving a rediscovered notebook. Erotic Thistle contends for folk song of the year
Album Review: Pallbearer – ‘Forgotten Days’
Pallbearer are back with their fourth offering of doom metal and a band going almost full circle. This new album is connected to their first long play album ‘Sorrow and Extinction’ as Rowland says: “This record has a lot of thematic ties to our first record.” The band are reliving the early days and this …
ALBUM REVIEW: Magik Markers – ‘2020’: New England noiseniks’ filthy return
New England noiseniks’ full-length return after a six-year absence is filthy, trippy and even, at points, damn pretty. Righteous and cathartic, be glad they’re back
ALBUM REVIEW: SHHE – ‘Re:’: remixers take her debut for a delightful spin deeper
Re: confirms SHHE as a great Scottish talent whose musics lend to steaming and bending into pretty new shapes. There’s a couple of artists working out in the sound forges where she is; but there’s a lot of room for music this good.
Album Review: Underground Lovers release surprise remix collection ‘Shadows’
Spanning their entire thirty career, the new collection of remixes from the legendary Underground Lovers is utterly sublime. It goes without saying that the flesh of a remix is only as good as the bones it is built on, and with the Underground Lovers you are assured that the foundations are phenominal. Many of the …
ALBUM REVIEW: Snowdrops – ‘Volutes’: chamber duo expand the post-classical palette with true beauty
Snowdrops have taken the post-classical palette to another place again with their use of two of the more overlooked pioneering electronic instruments, and produced a work that at its least, is intensely transporting; and in its two twin peaks, “Comma (variation 1)” and “Ultraviolet”, close to too beautiful, heartbreakingly so.
ALBUM REVIEW: Daniel O’Sullivan – ‘Electric Māyā: Dream Flotsam and Astral Hinterlands’: transporting and dazzling shortform art
Electric Māyā is a collection of short stories; of microfiction. Take your time and don’t breeze through; you’ll be peering through windows into 18 other little spheres. Dazzling shortform
ALBUM REVIEW: Henrik Lindstrand – ‘Nordhem’: absolute piano grace, recorded beautifully
Nordhem is a love letter to the piano with the lightest touches of other ambience, the slightest nuances and textures; like salted caramel, that tiny sprinkle brings so much richness. It’s a delight.
Album Review: Machinedrum – ‘A View Of U’
As Machinedrum, LA-based producer Travis Stewart has been steadily outputting innovative records broadly influenced by rave, jungle, hip hop and soundsystem music for the past two decades. 2011’s breakthrough album Room(s), released on Planet Mu, came the same year as the Sepalcure, a collaboration with Praveen Sharma aka Braille, self-titled debut album. He’s since gone …