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loscil - Endless Falls
One of Kranky's longest standing artists, Scott Morgan returns for a fifth album for the label, and it's quite superb, even by Loscil's already high standards. Regular Kranky followers will no doubt find themselves suitably bewitched, but this music's equally likely to appeal to followers of BJ Nilsen, Stephan Mathieu, Kyle Bobby Dunn and Celer. Endless Falls is bookended by recordings of rainfall, something which mirrors the droplet-obscured sleeve. This sort of imagery is a handy visual metaphor for ambient music of this variety: in the photograph a form of interference displaces the content of the picture as its true subject, and so it goes in Loscil's music. While Morgan's string sections and looping melodic gestures make up the fabric of these recordings it's the muffling and masking of them that draws the true beauty out of this music. 'Estuarine's minimal and plaintive piano phrases wouldn't be nearly so alluring were they not partially hidden away from you, and the stretched-out violins of the title track only function as beautifully as they do because they're cradled by a low, warm hum of filtered out, ambient sound matter. Rather than merely revelling in protracted linear drone exercises, Morgan latches his music to subtle rhythmic elements throughout the album, most prominently highlighted by 'Dub For Cascadia' - whose melancholy chord surges, crackling waves of static and contoured bass throbs sound like Stars Of The Lid playing along to something from the first three Pole albums. It's difficult to contemplate such a thing, but Endless Falls might be that rarest of things: an album whose best track is a spoken-word piece. In this case Destroyer's Daniel Bejar takes to the mic for the nine-minute closing piece. 'The Making Of Grief Point' is nine minutes of dramatically-charged, glitching, Biosphere-like drone, spun from downplayed neo-classical instrumentation and filtered loops, all accompanying Bejar's typically elliptical, digression-prone and fractured lyrics. Wonderful stuff throughout - highly recommended.
Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated)
Type Recordings
CD // £7.99
Breathtaking work, like a cross between Alva Noto & Sakamoto, David Sylvian and Martin Gore...
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Kompakt
CD // £10.99
A varied and impressive collection of compositions from The Orb member, lifted from the 24H Berlin OST
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CD // £12.99
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Editions Mego
CD // £13.99
Bruce Gilbert's first new album since Ordier, which was recorded some thirteen years back
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CD // £7.99
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New album from one of America's most persistently interesting avant-garde percussionists,
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CD // £11.99
Long awaited new album from uber-producer Patrick Pulsinger, featuring contributions from Fennesz.
Highpoint Lowlife Records
MP3 Download // £2.95
FLAC Download // £3.95
The third EP in 10-20's Landforms series, full of experimental beats and Autechre influenced abstraction
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MP3 Download // £6.99FLAC Download // £8.99
Latest slice of glacial ambience from Loscil.
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CD // £13.99
Amazing Kosmische analogue electronic soundscapes and krautrock workouts - new on Kranky.
Kranky
CD // £11.99
Chicago-based trumpet player and electronic experimenter makes a lovely debut for Kranky.
Kranky
CD // £13.99
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Kranky
CD // £13.99
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Kranky
CD // £13.99
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CD // £13.99
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Kranky
CD // £13.99
High class hook-up between Oren Ambarchi and Robin Fox, new on Kranky.
Profan
MP3 Download // £2.95FLAC Download // £3.95
Like SND, Untold, Gas and Armando squaring off -The return of Profan!!! Don't miss.
Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated)
Type Recordings
MP3 Download // £4.99FLAC Download // £5.99
Breathtaking work, like a cross between Alva Noto & Sakamoto, David Sylvian and Martin Gore...
Roedelius Musik
MP3 Download // £6.99FLAC Download // £8.99
'Lustwandel' is Hans-Joachim Roedelius' third solo album, originally released in 1981.
12" // £6.99SOMETHING
MP3 Download // £6.99FLAC Download // £8.99
Stephan Laubner aka STL sinks back into his Lunatik Soundsystem guise for seven tracks of occluded ambience.
Audiobulb Records
MP3 Download // £6.99FLAC Download // £8.99
PLOP
CD // £12.99
Cotton-coated and tender electronic music recommended to fans of Benjamin Brunn or Ulrich Schnauss.
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Bureau B
CD // £13.99
Reissue of Hans-Joachim's eleventh - and best selling - solo album, originally released in 1984.
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CD // £12.99
Fleischmann and Weixelbaum return sounding like early Beirut with an Eastern European jauntiness.
Skam Records
CD // £12.99
Set of collaborative tracks between NHK's Kouhei Matsunaga aka Koyxen and maverick MC Sensational.
