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stars of the lid - The Ballasted Orchestra (Vinyl Reissue)
*The much-in-demand vinyl version of the second (or third, depending on how you calculate) Stars of the Lid album, their first for Kranky, now finally reissued on vinyl. The original 4 track cassette recordings were remastered and new lacquers were cut, and the original artwork has been updated* When it comes to genre-defining releases, even releases that define a band's career, few sum up ambient music, and the work of Stars of the Lid in general like 'The Ballasted Orchestra'. Released in 1996 it was their third album and the band's first for the Kranky label and was an untouchable, perfect statement of intent from a band who for us have never put their name to a bad record. Flowing almost continuously 'The Ballasted Orchestra' was unlike anything else around at the time - it was lumped in with post-rock, quite strangely, but this was like hearing Arvo Part piped into a gigantic metal chamber, or a fresh take on Brian Eno's ambient dictat. It's hard to go into detail track by track, but in my mind 'The Ballasted Orchestra' is the partner of Stars of the Lid's best known work, the incredible 'Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid' in both composition and organisation. The album starts simply enough with the trembling beauty of 'Central Texas' but quickly drifts into the gorgeous 'Sun Drugs', which easily stands as one of the band's more unashamedly lush moments. The real highlight however comes with the incredible two-part 'Music for Twin Peaks Episode #30', and as those of you who know the Lynch canon as well as I do will be aware, there never was an episode #30 in Twin Peaks but if there was I'm sure this is how it sounded. Drone music rarely reaches these sort of expansive emotive heights and what sets this album (and band) apart from its peers is that it seems totally effortless. You never need to stop and think as you're listening, yet at the same time it never feels like background music, rather this is the soundtrack to the most beautiful dream you've ever had.
ERASED TAPES
LP // £14.99
*Now available on vinyl* Unembellished and almost painfully short pieces about and for the piano.
Ghostly International
LP // £21.99
Expansive, richly romantic ambient fare from Moodgadget co-founder Jakub Alexander.
Kompakt
LP+CD // £14.99
Kompakt welcome 2013 in sophisticated fashion with their annual 'Pop Ambient' round-up,
KEITH KENNIFF (HELIOS / GOLDMUND)
Village Green
LP // £16.99
*Available on 180g deluxe Vinyl for the first time*
ERASED TAPES
LP // £16.99
Now in on limited vinyl - A close, confessional, nocturnal album, new from Nils Frahm.
STEPHAN MATHIEU & DAVID SYLVIAN
Samadhisound
CD // £13.99
Stephen Mathieu renders instrumental source material from David Sylvian's seminal 'Blemish' LP.
Ideologic Organ
MP3 Download // £3.99
FLAC Download // £4.99
Ghostly chamber music and occult minimalism on Stephen O'Malley's Ideologic Organ imprint.
Ideologic Organ
MP3 Download // £4.95
FLAC Download // £5.95
Stephen O'Malley-curated imprint with a strange and affecting album from Jessika Kenney and Eyvind Kang
David Sylvian Presents Amplified Gesture
Samadhisound
DVD // £15.99
**73-minute NTSC Region Zero DVD housed in spotgloss printed digifile*
Village Green
CD // £11.99
The long awaited return of David Sheppard (State River Widening) with a new album as Snow Palms.
With Our Heads In The Clouds And Our Hearts In The Fields
Gizeh Records
LP // £13.99
Lush collaboration between Adam Wiltzie of Stars of the Lid and singer-songwriter Chantal Acda.
With Our Heads In The Clouds And Our Hearts In The Fields
Gizeh Records
MP3 Download // £6.99FLAC Download // £8.99
Lush collaboration between Adam Wiltzie of Stars of the Lid and singer-songwriter Chantal Acda.
With Our Heads In The Clouds And Our Hearts In The Fields
Gizeh Records
CD // £10.99
Lush collaboration between Adam Wiltzie of Stars of the Lid and singer-songwriter Chantal Acda.
Kranky
LP // £14.99
*Incredible album of songs recorded around the same time as her classic 'Dragging a dead deer' album*
Kranky
2LP // £17.99
Beautifully diffuse soundscapes bordering on the frontier lands of post-rock, dub and ambient.
Kranky
LP // £15.49
Hymnal is the fourth kranky album by Thomas Meluch under his musical alias Benoit Pioulard
Kranky
LP // £14.99
**Primal, passionate blend of shoegaze, post-rock and massive synth and guitar noise**
Kranky
LP // £13.99
High class hook-up between Oren Ambarchi and Robin Fox, new on Kranky.
La-Di-Da Recordings (Vinyl Edition)
Kranky
LP // £13.99
*Total find from Kranky - a 'lost' dreampop classic circa 90-93 eerily reminiscent of early Lush - so good*
Tragedy & Geometry (Limited Vinyl Edition)
Kranky
2LP // £19.99
Emeralds' Steve Hauschildt with a 12-track collection, an epic synthesizer suite.
Kranky
2LP // £19.99
A strong showing from one of the most reliably beguiling outfits in the US underground.
Things We Lost In The Fire (2011 Edition)
Kranky
2LP // £19.99
The first three Low albums on Kranky all finally repressed, with two bonus tracks.
Kranky
LP // £13.99
New on Kranky with five succinct ‘proper songs’ and one extended quarter-hour jam.
Ideologic Organ
MP3 Download // £4.99
FLAC Download // £5.99
Jessika Kenney and Eyvind Kang return with six new pieces for voice, viola, setar and electronics.
Eight Studies for Automatic Piano
Line
CD // £7.99
Completely brilliant, brain-boxing suite of piano minimalism from Seth Horvitz, aka Sutekh.
Cronica
MP3 Download // £5.99FLAC Download // £6.99
Vivid, electro-acoustically treated field recordings from UK-based artist, Simon Whetham.
ERASED TAPES
10" // £11.99
Radiant, intensely cinematic themes for strings on this new offering for Erased Tapes from Michael Price,
A Creche For The Lonely And Peculiar
SLIP DISCS
LP // £8.99
**Edition of 200 hand-stamped white label and sleeve*
Underwater Peoples Records
2LP // £27.99
**Wildly diverse curiosity reaching from cosmic industrial pop to concrète experiments**
felte
2LP // £16.99
**Upfront Exclusive - edition of 600** Gorgeous LP from Jonas Munk (Manual) and Jason Kolb (Auburn Lull).
BELL GARDENS (BRIAN MCBRIDE AND KENNETH JAMES GIBSON)
Southern
LP // £16.99
**180g white vinyl housed in printed inner and gatefold jacket with download card including one bonus track**
Drag City
LP // £13.99
Mightily mysterious side which first popped up in the Boston area circa late '70s.,,
Immune Recordings
LP // £15.99
*First time on vinyl for this excellent album, originally released on Room 40*
THE SWIFTER (BJNILSEN, ANDREA BELFI & SIMON JAMES PHILLIPS)
The Wormhole Presents: The Swifter
THE WORMHOLE
LP // £13.99
Andrea Belfi, BJNilsen and Simon James Phillips on three tantalisingly spacious live recordings.
