ambient
TRACK – 4’33 – THE NORMAL
Despite creating Mute Records, launching Fad Gadget and Depeche Mode, and then blazing a trail with Yazoo, The Birthday Party and a zillion more to become the indie label of all time, founder Daniel Miller’s moniker, The Normal has been strangely quiet since 1978. His one release, ‘TVOD/Warm Leatherette’ that initially launched the label was …
EP Review: [B O L T], Lavas Magmas – Untitled
German drone metal duo [B O L T] have joined forces with Floridian industrial noise project Lavas Magmas on this untitled three-track collaborative split EP of ambient post-rock. [B O L T] perform the first track, ‘1 2’, which is basically a short series of ambient synth notes stretched out for over ten minutes with …
Premiere: Solo Collective (Sebastian Reynolds / Anne Müller / Alex Stolze) – For Hazel
Solo Collective, aka composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Sebastian Reynolds, along with German cellist/composer Anne Müller and violinist/producer Alex Stolze are back following their acclaimed Solo Collective Part One album with (wait for it) Solo Collective Part Two, out on June 7th via Nonostar Records. Sitting between the classical tradition and the Silver Mt Zion, Sigur Ros, A …
Track: Brian Eno – Like I was a spectator, plus Apollo reissue / new music news
There is new Brian Eno music on the horizon, quite literally actually. He’s to reissue his seminal soundtrack album ‘Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks’, written with his brother Roger and Daniel Lanois to accompany Al Reinert’s landmark feature-length documentary ‘For all Mankind’, featuring footage of and interviews with Apollo astronauts. In addition, there is a whole disc …
Track: Dead Slow Hoot – An Island Keen To Float
You should never skim through music judging it’s first 30 seconds alone. Let “An Island Keen To Float” be a cautionary lesson for both listeners and writers, myself included. The latest single from Sheffield quartet Dead Slow Hoot may seem to be going down a meandering, C30 style path of earnest presentation and emotive content. …
Album Review: Stuart A Staples – Music for Claire Danis’ High Life
Out on its physical formats on May 3rd via City Slang is Tindersticks’ Stuart A Staples soundtrack for Claire Denis’ first English language film, High Life. In the gaps between Tindersticks records / haitus’, Staples has worked extensively with Davis, and this feature, focusing on a group of criminals who are tricked into believing they will …
Album Review: North Sea Navigator – The Memory Clears the Space for What’s Needed
Former Gravenhurst sideman Paul Nash has been trading under the name North Sea Navigator for a while now, expanding the line up from himself to a three piece and then to a four piece band recently, but its his solo eponymous album for Felt that is getting its commercial release, titled ‘The Memory Clears the …
Album Review : Nicklas Sørensen’s ‘Solo 2’
Nicklas Sørensen most recently blasted dreamy, psychedelic swaths of guitar on Papir’s 2017 record V. Within that Danish three-piece psych rock outfit, Sørensen can go from post-rock stoicism to 60s fuzzed-out freak out in seconds flat. He’s erased those boundary lines that seemed to box in the “guitar hero”. Jazzy introspection, distorted wah wah, and progressive lines …
See: Mark Pritchard releases new video for Come Let Us (feat. Gregory Whitehead)
Mark Pritchard has been releasing music under different guises for nearly 3 decades (Global Communication, Reload, Africa Hitech, Harmonic 313, Harmonic 33, to name a few) but reverted to his real name for 2016’s critically acclaimed ‘Under the Sun’. He’s returning this spring with ‘The Four Worlds’, an eight track collection, in the same musical …
Track: North Sea Navigator – Pure Modulations in Space and Time
North Sea Navigator is essentially the project of former Gravenhurst guitarist Paul Nash. Ahead of his/their debut album ‘The Memory Clears the Space for What’s Needed’ out on Blurred Recordings on April 13th they’ve shared a new track, Pure Modulations in Space and Time Now a four piece, with the additions of Charlotte Nicholls (Portishead, …