Review: Ensemble 1 – Delay Works
Spiralling 6/8 hypnosis for guitar, drums, bass. Always back to the start, never losing power.
Jack Chuter
Review: Conducive – Vanterwood Industries, Inc.
Slow-dawning dark ambient horror. The strange factory on the edge of town.
Feature: Review of 2023
An utterly non-definitive run-through of my favourite records released in 2023.
Crucial Listening #145: hyacinth.
Slowing everything down, emotionally devastating lines, the snare on Faucet. The Portland-based producer discusses three important albums.
Crucial Listening #144: Fortresses
Mellow ingenuity, drowned in reverb, London at its most gloomy and miserable. London-based multidisciplinary artist Sam Ashton discusses three important albums.
Crucial Listening #143: Jessica Pavone
Weird symphony, no crazy vibrato, Terry Riley on the discman. The violist and composer discusses three important albums.
Review: IEOGM – dolphins in cornwall
An uncanny collaboration between Marie Vermont and the concept horse, melding the domestic and the sub-aquatic.