March 2010
7 posts
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Hammock - Breathturn
Nashville ambient duo Hammock have posted the first taster from their forthcoming album ‘Chasing After Shadows…Living With The Ghosts’. It was initially scheduled for release this month but it has been delayed, not for long hopefully. The video was directed by the incredibly talented David Altobelli, who also did the stunning video for their track Mono No Aware as well as stuff...
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The Union Choir
I have mentioned The Union Choir in passing on here before, it’s maybe not normally the kind of stuff I tend to write about on here but I’ve been very impressed by their stuff since I stumbled across a few demos on myspace a few months ago. It’s very much in the style of The National or Doves, all very understated and yet grand, a bit miserablist but shot through with a large...
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(am) - soundtrack
The debut album from mysterious Italian duo (am) is a labyrinthine journey through the various worlds of electronic music which somehow manages to retain a sense of accessibility throughout. It dwells primarily though in the ambient and electro-acoustic fields, where music tends to lie in open spaces where their spacious uncluttered canvas often makes them feel otherworldly. Soundtrack is almost...
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The Half Open Sky Gives Us Hope - The Explorer
The Half Open Sky Gives Us Hope is the project of one man and his computer; a phrase which may be a worrying prospect for many music lovers. Particularly given that this man and his laptop are making post-rock, a genre that thrives on the nuance of instrumentation, something which a program may fail to replicate convincingly. After listening to The Explorer though it’s impossible to...
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Magic Man
Some of you may well be familiar with The Tumbled Sea, who released two albums of wonderful low key piano compositions through futurerecordings last year (one of which I rated very highly in my end of year list). Well Sam Lee, the man behind that has a new project called Magic Man. No longer solo he’s joined forces with another chap called Alex Caplow and fleshed out the style considerably...
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Errors - Come Down With Me
It’s a rare beast the album which makes you want to dance as well as making you think, I can’t even remember the last one I heard. On their second album though this Glaswegian quartet have struck a perfect balance between upbeat instrumentals and ethereal post-rock. Whilst their previous output was never short of admirers it was often a little erratic, however a series of shows last...
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Winters
Winters is the husband and wife duo of Shane and Gosia Winter based in Berlin, though hailing originally from Australia. You may recognise Gosia’s name from an excellent collaboration with Bleeding Heart Narrative called Wire and String which was released on Tartaruga last year (and I reviewed here). Well the duo have now released their first album for free download, it’s in a...
