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April 16, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Watching Twin Peaks 30 Years Later

Laura Palmer’s mother doesn’t know what time the last phone call came – the logs get cut and the steam piles up. Those lush piano chords sit under the scenes, soft-pedalled playing that enriches the melodrama, pretty much tells us to love the slow-burn; small-town grinding to a halt. Lara Flynn Boyle was only better […]

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August 19, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein: Stranger Things, Vol. 1 [OST]

Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein Stranger Things, Vol. 1 [OST] Lakeshore Records It seems the one thing anyone lured in by Netflix’s Stranger Things can agree on – the music was a triumph; scene-setting, propulsive, era/genre-evoking, it worked stunningly as a masterful prop and part of the manipulation. The score comes courtesy of Kyle Dixon […]

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July 6, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Tuxedomoon & Cult With No Name: Blue Velvet Revisited

Tuxedomoon & Cult With No Name Blue Velvet Revisited [OST] Crammed Discs Here the soundtrack to the documentary is available before the film – but that’s fair enough or at least understandable given the documentary looks at David Lynch’s cult classic, Blue Velvet, some 30 years after its release, with never-before-seen footage from the shoot […]

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June 3, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Palmbomen II: Palmbomen II

Palmbomen II Palmbomen II RVNG International Here’s the latest from Kai Hugo, a self-titled album under his Palmbomen II moniker. He’s been making analog house and dusty old ambient-techno releases under various names and all with a cleaning-out-the-attic feel. Here on album where the strange gimmick is that every track is named after an X-Files […]