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the year of - Slow Days
Opening with the kind of after-hours thrum which is cinematic shorthand for "potential naughty business about to occur in a tastefully lit but generic city apartment", it's to The Year Of's credit that they are able to drag 'Mantra' back from the Men&Motors precipice and mature an unpromising loungecore introduction into shimmering indietronica. Far more textured than such a wan genre-tag does it credit for, The Year Of are a supergroup (in the Morr scheme of things...), with members including Bernhard Fleischmann, Christof Kurzmann, Paul Kling (aka Burkhard Stangl), Martin Siewert and Werner Dafeldecker - all of whom bring a firm understanding of how to filter electronics through emotional charcoal. Whilst 'Slow Days' can hardly claim a podium place in terms of massaging lilting instrumentation and pathos weary vocals into a bed of subtle digitalis, just because they weren't first doesn't mean they should languish near the bottom of the pile. Bringing together the sonorous tones of Kurzmann's vocals and the sparsely populated luxury provided by a backroom of instrumental types, songs like 'Mantra', 'There's Something About You' and 'Stephen Hawking' glow with honeyed-malace - assuming a perspective similar to that of Dream City Film Club, albeit wrapped in an aural lace-curtain as opposed to heavy, theatrical velvet. Elsewhere, 'Bees Be' adds sweet strings without a hint of aspartame, 'Sleep' delves into Richard Hawley territory for a silky smudge of singer/songwriter perfection, whilst 'Stephen Hawking Inst.' slows Dick Dale down into an alt.country noir instrumental. Class of '06!
Modern Love
CD // £7.99
Amazing debut best compared to Rhythm & Sound, Mika Vainio and Omar Souleyman rolled into one.
Life Is Full of Possibilities (Deluxe Edition)
SUB POP
2CD // £13.49
Deluxe edition of this classic album, with a ton of extras + new remixes from Sandwell and Regis!
DIGITALIS
CD // £7.99
Killer Fever-Ray related project finally available on CD with bonus tracks - Highly Recommended!
Editions Mego
CD // £13.99
A genuine contender for one the best of the year, the 4th LP from synth dreamer Oneohtrix Point Never.
Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated)
Type Recordings
CD // £7.99
Breathtaking work, like a cross between Alva Noto & Sakamoto, David Sylvian and Martin Gore...
FLAC Download // £8.99For M / Mikro_Kosmos - Two Concerts
Sound Of A Handshake
2CD // £19.99
Two extended live pieces from Bernard Fleischmann...
Morr Music
CD // £12.99
Fleischmann and Weixelbaum return sounding like early Beirut with an Eastern European jauntiness.
Sing Along To Songs You Don't Know
Morr Music
2LP // £13.99
A brand new album on Morr from the Icelandic post-rock institution
Morr Music
MP3 Download // £6.99
FLAC Download // £8.99
A second album from Icelandic folk-popsters Seabear, fronted by Sindri Mar Sigfusson of Sin Fang Bous
Morr Music
CD // £11.99
One of Berlin's finest bands returns with by far their most direct and poppy release to date.
ORCAS (RAFAEL ANTON IRISARRI & BENOîT PIOULARD)
Morr Music
CD // £8.99
Rarefied, dub-infused ambient pop from Rafael Anton Irisarri - aka The Sight Below - and Benoît Pioulard.
Robot Elephant Records
CD // £9.99
Piping hot Witch House compilation from this intriguing new label...
DISSOLVING
CD // £13.99
*Comes in a 7" outer card package, Includes a foldout 14"x14" full colour poster. Edition of 230 copies*
Lex Records
MP3 Download // £4.99FLAC Download // £5.99
Excellent new signings to Lex Records, like Solvent jamming with The Sight Below. Recommended.
