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July 1, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
DJ Houseplants: Self-Titled (ep)
DJ Houseplants Self-Titled (ep) 118384 Records DK Seattle-based DJ, producer and designer Justin Av has a new alias – DJ Houseplants. He’s made music for many years across several nom-de-plumes but the bloom of his lo-fi house music is bountiful on this self-titled EP as DJ Houseplants. Just four songs, low-key and liquid-like they trickle […]Archive
June 24, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Russell E.L. Butler: Emotional Bangers Only (ep)
Russell E.L. Butler Emotional Bangers Only (ep) Self Release Russell Ellington Langstone Butler makes it pretty clear with the title there that in and around the emotional heft there’s some sardonic, self-deprecating humour. Want it clearer though? Well, how about this: More songs about depression, PTSD, delivery food, and revolutionary action. Lol. But also cry-face […]Archive
June 22, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Nathan Fake: Sanxenxo (ep)
Nathan Fake Sanxenxo (ep) Cambria Instruments Nathank Fake’s new EP is a set of jams and leftovers and shelf-sitters recorded either side of his most recent full-lengther, the excellent Blizzards. The excellent Sanxenxo brims with ideas, its opening, title tune unfolding through various glitches over seven minutes, taking in the buzzing, pulsing writhe of ambient […]Archive
June 18, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Tom Vernon: Amber Fade (ep)
Tom Vernon Amber Fade Lost Palms / Shall Not Fade LTD Look, all I know is when it comes to music labelled House if I can also slap an ambient sign on it then I’m ready to move on in. This, to put it so very squarely, is my jam. Deep, ambient house at that. […]Archive
June 16, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
PVA: Toner (ep)
PVA Toner (ep) Big Dada London trio PVA have only got one EP to their name right – but it shows a band arriving fully formed. All at once you hear washes of Depeche Mode and the clever hooks of the best of the big beat ear – I’m thinking Chemical Brothers always. But before […]Archive
June 8, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Martin Gore: The Third Chimpanzee E.P.
Martin Gore The Third Chimpanzee E.P. MUTE Martin Gore likes to sneak away from his main gig – Depeche Mode – to make solo records, experimental, instrumental, his band’s music is recognisable as resource but as Gore – or sometimes the moniker MG – he is almost hiding. Though Depeche fans would tell you straight […]Archive
June 7, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Bill Laurance & The Untold Orchestra: Cables Rewired EP
Bill Laurance & The Untold Orchestra Cables Rewired EP Flint Music Limited Composer Bill Laurence – a member of the sprawling modern jazz-rock ensemble Snarky Puppy has, in recent years, really extended out as composer (and player) in his own right.Archive
June 3, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band: First Train Smokin
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band First Train Smokin musique de soliel When I first heard Captain Beefheart it was like nothing else I’d ever experience. I was about 12 and the song was Abba Zabba off that pulverising and brilliant debut, Safe as Milk, but I heard it on some 60s-music compilation that mostly […]Archive
May 10, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog: What I Did On My Long Vacation (ep)
Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog What I Did On My Long Vacation Knockwurst Music / Preposterous Bee Music / Wazir & Malika Music A get back to the studio project, a just shut up and play project, a lockdown mini album – this EP by Marc and his Ceramic Dog is really the starting point for […]Archive
May 6, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Olivia Jean & April March: Palladium (ep)
Olivia Jean & April March Palladium (ep) Third Man Records I haven’t loved everything Jack White has done but I have always been in support of the aesthetic and business model of his Third Man Records – classic, old-fashioned record-making for people that love music. Novelty jukebox singles, quirky fan projects and an overall quality-control […]Archive
May 5, 2021 by Simon Sweetman