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September 2, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Four Tet: Morning/Evening
Four-Tet Morning/Evening Text Records/Temporary Residence Ltd Four Tet – aka Kieran Hebden – has released just over a half-dozen albums under his preferred moniker, then there’s collaborations and production work, mix albums, “solo” albums (under his birth name). And he’s in the middle of an exciting period, following up stints producing Neneh Cherry’s incredible “comeback” […]Archive
April 3, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Hands: The Soul Is Quick
Hands The Soul Is Quick Ecstatic If a collaboration – or at least some perceived common ground – between Burial and Gate sounds like the proverbial cup of herbal for you then you might want to check The Soul Is Quick by Hands. If you know Axel Willner already from his work as The Field […]Archive
January 29, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
The Haxan Cloak: Excavation
The Haxan Cloak Excavation Tri Angle Records Imagine Lustmord and Mike Patton sharing horror-movie scoring tips and you have some idea of what to expect when going into this new album by The Haxan Cloak. The British dark ambient project is a low-frequency set of rumbles that has plenty to offer to fans of goth […]Archive
December 17, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Burial: Rival Dealer EP
Burial Rival Dealer Hypberdub No one is doing brutal and beautiful – often all at once – quite like Burial. In the beat-less variety of dark ambient works there’s Lustmord, but in terms of grit and pulse Burial has been leading the way since Untrue fully announced the talent – the earlier, self-titled full lengther […]Archive
September 28, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
The Impending Adorations: Further
The Impending Adorations Further Mushroom In November of 2012 Paul McLaney released his first album as The Impending Adorations, Gestalt. By April of 2013 he’d readied Intentions and now, already, we have Further; the third in what he has set out as a four-album set. Further starts with the loping 10-minute opener, Canon; it perhaps […]Archive
August 29, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Lustmord: The Word As Power
Lustmord The Word As Power Blackest Ever Black As Lustmord Brian Williams has created a strain of industrial and dark ambient music that creeps along like a horror soundtrack one minute, then slowly, surely, it opens itself up – unfolding – to reveal the beauty (and still the darkness) of sublime classical music, of minimalism, […]Archive
August 5, 2013 by Simon Sweetman