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xela - Heirs Of The Fire
Limited copies back in stock. This incredibly engrossing set from John Twells is soaked in a sumptuous, almost devotional ambience. Housed in a sublime silkscreened package with artwork designed by Svarte Greiner's Erik Skodvin, the album makes gestures towards the more Aleister Crowley-ish end of the religious compass. The A-side immediately settles into a choral mode, looping voices in harmony, building up a dense wall of ecclesiastical sound that resonates with a reverberant glow. In equal parts the vocals suggest the Hilliard Ensemble and Richard Youngs - quite a combination - and given Twells' recent output, at any moment you half expect some sort of vicious, subversive elements to swamp the mix and drag you down into a black metal dirge, but that never comes. Instead, this first part of Heirs Of The Fire is an untarnished, mesmerising affair, loaded with melody and a kind of pious melancholy. On to the B-side and the vocals have evaporated altogether, giving way to a more menacing network of sounds drawing on field recordings, tolling bells and quivering resonances from tuned percussion. It's only towards the end that voices make a return to the mix, but here they've morphed into something far more pained and lupine, and in these final throes Zelienople's Mike Weis is on hand to supply percussive elements, bringing an organically evolving, carefully worked crescendo to it all. Once again there's an underlying beauty to this that transcends any implicit darkness - Heirs Of The Fire represents a thrilling departure for Twells, making a break from the rasping metallic bleakness that's informed much of his work over recent years, and the more considered, dare i say it, vulnerable sound on show here is both startling and overwhelming. Utterly wonderful.
Type Recordings
CD // £7.99
Finally available on CD - fabulously dense and harrowing drone variations from John Twells, aka Xela.
Private Chronology
MP3 Download // £4.50
FLAC Download // £5.50
A grainy miasmah of stray synth sequences and gurgling radiophonic noise...
Type Recordings
MP3 Download // £3.99FLAC Download // £4.99
Chilling electronic discourses taking the haunted sounds of The Dead Sea ever further into a noisy abyss
GARETH HARDWICK / LIBRARY TAPES / MACHINEFABRIEK / XELA
LOW POINT
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Planet Mu
MP3 Download // £7.99
FLAC Download // £9.99
7 brand new cuts added to 'Room(s)' plus remixes from Falty DL, Traxman, Lando Kal and Chrissy Murderbot
SMTG
MP3 Download // £6.99FLAC Download // £8.99
An incredibly stylish, creepy album of nocturnal, Lynchian jazz and dread-infused electronics.
SMTG
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Alt-metal from Souvenir's Young America - project of SMTG owner Jonathan Lee, better known as Anduin.
SMTG
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Immense, deeply absorbing dark textures, drones, bass rumbles and sudden glimpses of light. ESSENTIAL!!!
SMTG
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Incredible layered Mika Vainio style electronic drone experiments - VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!!
Kranky
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Another incredible long-player from the bountiful hard drive of Tim Hecker...
Preservation
CD // £12.99
An effective combination of electronic ambience and freeform improv from Orsi and Cosi
Important Records
LP // £16.49
Disciplined, slow motion sludge-drone on Important, with two bass players for extra low-end presence…
