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March 16, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 928

This Mortal Coil, It’ll End In Tears (1984) What is now a cliché but we still (always) seem to say it in a means-well way is this notion of a cover version where the performer makes the song their own – This Mortal Coil isn’t really a band, more a project. But most of the […]

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October 8, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Pan & Me: Ocean Noise

Pan & Me Ocean Noise Denovali Records Created as sprawling double-album, Ocean Noise is the work of Christopher Mevel, here under the Pan & Me name, but known also for his jazz-tinged extrapolations with The Dale Cooper Quartet. The Pan & Me work takes more from neo-classical, the widescreen filmic sequences (Nickel Empire) are borne […]

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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, […]