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murralin lane - Our House Is On The Wall
Our House Is On The Wall is the debut release from Swedes Murralin Lane, a duo formed by David Wenngren and Yiva Wiklund. While regular followers of Wenngren's main project, Library Tapes, will no doubt be expecting some of his signature piano work, Our House Is On The Wall makes a clean break from that sound, instead framing Wiklund's vocal pieces within crumbling lo-fi tracts fashioned from distorted tones and drones. The vocals themselves take on a certain abstract beauty, often calling upon decay-fixated effects or ramshackle recording scenarios (e.g. directly into a mobile phone). The resultant sound of these pieces (you could probably call them songs, in fact) is quite hard to define. While the prospect of faded vocals and corroded, droning backdrops might seem like a fairly familiar concept there's something in the execution of this album that's very fresh. Perhaps it's to do with the kind of 'lo-fi' sound being explored here. Generally when that term gets thrown around it's in reference to cassette or other such analogue aesthetics, yet everything that greets the ear on Our House... is very digitised; instead of muffled tape sounds you encounter heavy spectral filtering or the kind of sonic side-effects caused by noise reduction plugins. Perhaps if Fennesz and Grouper got together to record some tracks the end result would be something along the lines of 'She Was Climbing' or 'She Collected'. Another very fine 12k release.
Bella Union
CD // £9.99
An intimate, seven-track release finding Peter Broderick in sublime singer-songwriter mode
DECA / BEDROOM COMMUNITY
CD // £14.99
An exceptionally strong body of work from the young modern classical composer, scored for a dance piece
ON (SYLVAIN CHAUVEAU / STEVEN HESS)
Something That Has Form And Something That Does Not
Type Recordings
CD // £7.99
NOW: £4.49
Steven Hess and Sylvain Chauveau completely reworked by Christian Fennesz.
Kranky
CD // £13.99
A strong showing from one of the most reliably beguiling outfits in the US underground.
Line
CD // £8.99
The best 12k/Line release in ages - dark, Lynchian eroded tape-loops and analogue menace. ESSENTIAL PURCHASE!
ERASED TAPES
CD // £10.49
Absolutely heartbreaking improvisations on piano and strings from Ólafur Arnalds - highly recommended.
Samadhisound
CD // £12.99
Amazing new album of transformed guitar pieces from the hugely influential Akira Rabelais. Essential Purchase.
Anticipate
CD // £12.99
Gorgeous cinematic pseudo-soundtracks from the deep ambient world of Klimek - Essential Purchase!
SPEKK
CD // £13.99
Sleep-themed microsound brilliance from the consistently impressive Spekk imprint
MACHINEFABRIEK
MP3 Download // £1.70
FLAC Download // £2.70
An electroacoustic collaboration with trombonist Hilary Jeffery
Kranky
2LP // £19.99
A strong showing from one of the most reliably beguiling outfits in the US underground.
12K
MP3 Download // £5.99
FLAC Download // £6.99
A new drone 'n' vocals project formed by Library Tapes' David Wenngren
MP3 Download // £3.95
FLAC Download // £4.95
12K
CD // £7.99
New collaboration from two of Australia's leading electroacoustic practitioners...
12K
CD // £8.99
An outstanding new album based on gamelan instruments that finds Taylor Deupree at his very best.
12K
CD // £7.99
Incredible rhythmic designs based on recordings of household objects and materials - Highly Recommended.
12K
CD // £8.99
The excellent Marsen Jules descends on 12k with his first full-length for the label.
12K
CD // £8.99
**Standard edition packaged in 12k's new uncoated board gatefold jacket**
12K
CD // £7.99
Gentle, electronically embellished Japanese folk-pop from Taylor Deupree's 12k label.
Ballads Of The Research Department
12K
CD // £8.99
The Boats return with their debut album release for Taylor Deupree's 12k imprint.
12K
CD // £8.99
Seasoned musician, sound artist and ex-Slowdiver Simon Scott presents his first album for 12k.
12K
CD // £6.99
A 20 minute coda to 'A Static Place', created with a setup of two mechanical-acoustic gramophones.
Unter (w/Machinefabriek Mix) / Über
ERASED TAPES
MP3 Download // £1.95FLAC Download // £2.95
Two absolutely beautiful piano miniatures from Frahm, plus a Machinefabriek remix
NILS FRAHM / JOHANN JOHANNSSON / HAUSCHKA
Explorer's Club: 7. Belfast- Reykjavik
LOAF
MP3 Download // £1.95
FLAC Download // £2.95
Superb piano-driven pieces from Johann Johannsson, Nils Frahm, Hauschka & Stefan Schneider
Touch
MP3 Download // £6.99FLAC Download // £8.99
A remastered reissue of a 2007 album originally released under the billing of Lost In Hildurness
Movies is Magic (Extended Version)
Anticipate
MP3 Download // £6.99FLAC Download // £8.99
A special, extended edition of Sebastian Meissner's meditation on film music...
MP3 Download // £3.95
FLAC Download // £4.95Glacial Movements
CD // £13.99
Netherworld is the alias of Alessandro Tedeschi, a producer of isolationist ambient music from Rome.
Type Recordings
CD // £7.99
NOW: £4.49
An amazing album poised between outright aural punishment and an impenetrably black chasm. Immense.
