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the boats - Sleepy Insect Music
A special, one-off collaborative release from the Home Normal and Flau labels, Sleepy Insect Music was conceived as an accompaniment to The Boats' tour of Japan, scheduled for May. The album spans the band's entire career, collecting unreleased tracks or hard-to-find recordings that have only cropped up on compilations or highly limited Our Small Ideas releases. The resultant hour's worth of music turns out to be a brilliantly compiled trawl through The Boats' hidden catalogue, sequencing early compositions like 'Birthdays' and 'I Did Not Sleep So Soundly' (both from 2003) alongside wonderful contemporary works. The likes of 'Understand' and the freshly reworked 'Raindrops' offer magical, otherworldly takes on the conventions of song-craft - the pattering, crackle-laden beats and eroded, lo-fi electronics finding welcome embellishment from Danny Norbury's weeping cello strokes and Chris Stewart's muffled, lowercase vocal. In addition to The Boats' own originals, an unreleased remix of the Nive song 'Louise' is thrown in. Instantly, the band seem to make the song their own, casting the Greenlandic songstress' vocal into a familiarly warm, glitching production. The already-heard entries are sourced from compilations for Flau and [parvo] art or are cuts lifted from the Stenography and Saturation, Hum And Hiss EPs. All are well worth returning to, although only the most obsessive followers of the group are likely to have the lot already - either way they're all welcome inclusion on this disc. There's abundant exclusive content here to make Sleepy Insect Music an essential addition to The Boats catalogue, and furthermore, those newer recordings featuring the freshly recruited Danny Norbury ('Veleta Two Step' and 'George Herbert Leigh Mallory' would be two more examples) hint to a great future for the group.
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Breathtaking new album from Johann Johannssonn...
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CD // £13.99
The second full-length from the young Icelandic composer features his most assured and developed work yet
Preservation
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Samadhisound
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Amazing new album of transformed guitar pieces from the hugely influential Akira Rabelais. Essential Purchase.
The Bells (Erased Tapes Reissue)
ERASED TAPES
CD // £12.99
Sublime modern classical works from Nils Frahm - made available again by Erased Tapes
Type Recordings
CD // £7.99
Amazing new album from Richard Skelton, his first new album since the classic 'Marking Time'.
SPEKK
CD // £13.99
Sleep-themed microsound brilliance from the consistently impressive Spekk imprint
EXPERIMEDIA
CD // £13.99
Luscious new Aaron Martin album, exhibiting a more composerly, less improvised feel than prior works
BEDROOM COMMUNITY
CD // £12.99
An epic soundtrack album feat. contributions from Nico Muhly, Ben Frost, Sam Amidon and Daniel Bjarnason
Ghostly International
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FLAC Download // £8.99
The outstanding sophomore album from Rafael Anton Irissari's best-known project...
Ballads Of The Research Department
12K
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FLAC Download // £7.95
The Boats deliver their debut album for the 12k label...
Home Normal
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A career-spanning collection of previously unreleased and rare tracks from the prolific electronica group
Home Normal
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Career highlight from the magnificent 'The Boats' - pure layered micropop/shoegaze/electronic bliss.
LACIES
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A truly beguiling release from Andrew Hargreaves, best known as one half of The Boats.
LACIES
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*Please note that this is the regular CD edition*
You're Going To Love Our Defeatist Attitude
City Centre Offices
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City Centre Offices
MP3 Download // £6.99
FLAC Download // £8.99
323 Sayonara Memories (+ Remixes)
Home Normal
2CD // £8.99
**Limited edition of 500 including bonus remix CD**
Home Normal
CD // £9.99
Featuring a stellar cast including Reinhold Friedl, Nils Frahm, Aidan Baker, and James Johnston.
Home Normal
2CD // £9.99
**Includes 'Should We Make It Through The Night / Wayside' bonus CD**
Home Normal
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A regular of Japan's Flau label, Geskia! makes a neat dent in the Home Normal schedule.
Home Normal
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Geskia!'s Hip-Hop-inflected electronica gets the rework treatment by his Japanese peers.
Home Normal
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Featuring a stellar cast including Reinhold Friedl, Nils Frahm, Aidan Baker, and James Johnston.
Home Normal
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Home Normal capture Brock Van Wey at his most tranquil and expansive with 'The First Day'.
GARETH DAVIS, JAN KLEEFSTRA & ROMKE KLEEFSTRA
Home Normal
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A patiently slow, minimal and atmospheric suite of six electro-acoustic songs.
Home Normal
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Quietly troubled and eerie stuff from Felicia Atkinson...
Home Normal
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Deft, detailed electronica from David Newman's Autistici project.
DAVID WENNGREN & CHRISTOPHER BISSONNETTE
The Meridians of Longitude and Parallels of Latitude
Home Normal
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David Wenngren (aka Library Tapes) and Christopher Bissonnette with a set of elongated, gaseous drones.
Home Normal
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Beautiful project from Danny Norbury, Ian Hawgood and Jason Corder, mastered by Miles (Demdike Stare).
DIGITALIS
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Gosh this is incredible, featuring drones, hip hop, bleepy interludes, dark ambient & more - ESSENTIAL!!!
and they have escaped the weight of darkness
ERASED TAPES
MP3 Download // £6.99FLAC Download // £8.99
The second full-length from the young Icelandic composer, his most assured and developed work yet.
SPEKK
MP3 Download // £5.99FLAC Download // £6.99
Sleep-themed microsound brilliance from the consistently impressive Spekk imprint
and in the endless pause there came the sound of bees
Johann Johannsson
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The gorgeous new album from Johann Johannsson...
OWN RECORDS
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Another top-notch ambient drone suite from the increasingly prolific Japanese composer
QUIETUS
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Accomplished ambient dub-techno from Brock Van Wey
HEATHER WOODS BRODERICK / VARIOUS
Portland Stories: A Collection Of Nine Songs, Produced And Compiled By Heather Woods Broderick
SONIC PIECES
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Beautiful collection of songs featuring Heather Broderick and friends...
ELISION FIELDS
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Terry Riley pioneers the notion of remixing back in 1967 with this 20-minute R&B edit. Amazing.
