August 2011
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WatchRoll The Dice - Calling All Workers
Following this mysterious teaser video, here’s the first sounds to be released from the upcoming record by Swedish duo Roll The Dice. Calling All Workers is a vast instrumental landscape which swings back and forth between spacious and claustraphobic. The patient building of synthetic keys and blustery ambience gradually coalesce and mutates in to a truly...
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Adam Stafford - Build A Harbour Immediately
The first solo album proper from former Y’all is Fantasy Island frontman provides a rather different proposition than 2009’s low key release Awnings. The latter was wilfully avant-garde, a decidedly lo-fi maelstrom of purring vocal loops and mechanic samples which almost seemed engineered as a direct reaction to the effortless accessibility of YiFI. For me, it was an often misguided if admirably...
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Wise Blood streams new EP
Indie R’n’B savant Wise Blood has posted up his forthcoming EP These Wings up for streaming ahead of it’s digital release next week. Last years ‘+’ EP brought the warped jams of Chris Laufman to the attention of some, but this embraces an even more pop sensibiltiy here, chopping samples into short hook filled slices of glinted euphoria. Something we can all get on...
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Caught In The Wake Forever - All The Hurt That...
Ambient music is a tricky path to tread, and trying to turn a microscope on the compelling subtleties of sound without drifting into background noise territory easier said than done. The key to success is invariably in production more than anything, in highlighting those shifts and textures of the sounds, and this is something which Caught in the Wake Forever excels at. A side project of one...
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WatchEcho Lake - Breathe Deep
Here’s a great new video from the latest 7” single from Echo Lake. A typically hypnotic wave of swelling shoegaze riffs and ethereal drifting vocals form the basis for yet another track which manages to be pretty rocking without sacrificing all the lovely dreamy stuff you’d expect. The video compliments it perfectly as well. This is the b-side to the single Another Day...
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Monsters Build Mean Robots – We Should Have...
Monsters Build Mean Robots is not a name that inspires confidence in hearing much beyond the kind of facsimile post-rock by numbers being pumped out by a slew of other such ridiculously monikered groups ( see also: the silly album title). So my hopes were not high for this Brigton quartet’s second album and, for the most part, this expectation is well founded. Despite added vocals the tracks...
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