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brian mcbride - The Effective Disconnect
Stars Of The Lid's Brian McBride was recruited by filmmakers George Langworthy and Maryam Henein for the soundtrack to their documentary film The Vanishing Of The Bees. Not having seen the film, we can only really take The Effective Disconnect on its own terms, as a standalone project, and in that sense it's certainly an enormous success. McBride has stated that his intention was to create a number of enclosed, self-contained suites rather than what he himself calls "the more continuous architecture employed in my previous recordings", and this results in what's arguably a more varied and structurally focussed album than his previous solo long-player (2005's When Detail Lost Its Freedom). McBride's remarkable slow-motion orchestration remains a powerful force - something that's much imitated by the current generation of ambient and modern classical artists. There's nothing quite like the real thing though, and McBride's genre-blurring work on the wonderful three-part string composition 'Toil Theme' and shorter sequences such as 'Chamber Minuet' make for an incredibly moving listen. Perhaps unusually for this artist, there are moments of spine-tingling optimism running through the tracklist: the album's opening couplet ('Mélodrames Télégraphiés (in B major 7th)' parts one and two) and 'Supposed Essay on the Piano (B major piano Adagietto)' find McBride in a guardedly upbeat mode, with the latter in particular standing out for its uplifting use of horns. Excellent stuff from one of the ambient/classical scene's greatest exponents.
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Slow motion dustbowl blues from doom-Americana architects Evan Caminiti and Jon Porras
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An intimate, seven-track release finding Peter Broderick in sublime singer-songwriter mode
The Bells (Erased Tapes Reissue)
ERASED TAPES
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Sublime modern classical works from Nils Frahm - made available again by Erased Tapes
12K
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Now released in its own right, this was the second disc in the special edition of Bird's Noble Beast album
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BELL GARDENS (BRIAN MCBRIDE AND KENNETH JAMES GIBSON)
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Brian McBride (Stars Of The Lid) and Kenneth James Gibson ([a]pendics.shuffle) making chamber pop...
BELL GARDENS (BRIAN MCBRIDE AND KENNETH JAMES GIBSON)
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Kranky
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Beautifully diffuse soundscapes bordering on the frontier lands of post-rock, dub and ambient.
Kranky
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Kranky
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Hymnal is the fourth kranky album by Thomas Meluch under his musical alias Benoit Pioulard
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High class hook-up between Oren Ambarchi and Robin Fox, new on Kranky.
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Kranky
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Eldritch, literate chamber-pop business from the UK's own Felix, new on Kranky.
12K
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Leftfield guitar works from the most exciting new signing to 12k for some time. An exceptional debut.
ANDREA FERRARIS, MATTEO UGGERI, MUJIKA EASEL, ANDREA SERRAPIGLIO
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HIBERNATE
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A typically lovely collage of documentary field recordings and instrumental fragments from Hibernate
MACHINEFABRIEK
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An electroacoustic collaboration with trombonist Hilary Jeffery
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Dark and droney goings on from the Argentinean noise artist, originally released circa 2006
SONIC PIECES
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Beautifully produced dark ambience from one of the genre's most consistently inspired artists
Immune Recordings
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Digital edition of this excellent EP for the Immune Label.
WINTERS DAY (DAWN SMITHSON AND AARON MARTIN)
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New collaborative guise of Kranky artist (and ex-Jessamine member) Dawn Smithson and Aaron Martin.
