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July 15, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Brooke Blair & Will Blair: Night Stalker – The Hunt for a Serial Killer
Brooke Blair & Will Blair Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer Maisie Music Publishing, LLC I became a tiny bit obsessed with the Night Stalker story when I saw a framed, signed picture of Richard Ramirez in a Sydney record shop. It was $1,000 and I was super-keen to own it. A bargain […]Archive
July 2, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Kodama 木: Moonlight and Rain
Kodama 木 Moonlight and Rain dreaming of distant worlds Evocations of nature were all through the debut EP by Kodama 木 (which I loved!) In fact I referred to it as feeling like “the soundtrack to a sci-fi or nature documentary-short that hasn’t been made yet”. And the same applies to full-lengther, Moonlight and Rain. Because it’s […]Archive
June 30, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Hedvig Mollestad Trio: Ding Dong. You’re Dead.
Hedvig Mollestad Trio Ding Dong. You’re Dead. Rune Grammofon I might not have been there for every single album, and I’ve only reviewed half of them – but I am definitely a fan of Norway’s Hedvig Mollestad Trio. Formed in 2009 by guitarist Mollestad, with bassist Ellen Brekken and drummer Ivar Loe Bjørnstad, the trio […]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
Menahan Street Band: The Exciting Sounds of Menahan Street Band
Menahan Street Band The Exciting Sounds of Menahan Street Band Daptone Records It’s been a cruel double blow to Daptone Records – losing both Sharon Jones and Charles Bradley. For they were not only the voices but in a way the faces of the label; the front-people. And the bands behind them – The Dap […]Archive
June 15, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Alan Howarth: Indigo RA
Alan Howarth Indigo RA Spheric Gold Alan Howarth is a film composer and sound-designer. He’s created the soundtracks for many science-fiction and horror films and TV shows and might be best known, at least in some circles, for a long-running set of collaborations with John Carpenter, sometimes assisting Carpenter in creating scores and sometimes (as […]Archive
June 13, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Hélène Grimaud: The Messenger
Hélène Grimaud The Messenger Deutsche Grammophon French pianist Hélène Grimaud is a risk-taker and a concept-maker, creating albums that pull from different styles and eras, and push into place new understandings, new beginnings even – here, with The Messenger she seeks to compare and contrast Mozart with the contemporary classical composer Valentyn Silvestrov.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 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 27, 2021 by Simon Sweetman