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Review: Aidan Baker – Soil

Review: Aidan Baker – Soil

UTILITY TAPES. Within this tattered quilt of idling guitar loops, crumpled static and starchy interference, no single sound is permitted to dominate. Waste products are processed to pull their inner tonality to the fore, as tuneful as the plucked melodies with which they intermingle. Intention and happenstance are blurred into

Radio: Resonance Extra – Episode 21 (07/04/2019)

ATTN’s Jack Chuter presents a selection of sonic curiosities and invites each of the artists featured to talk about the experience of recording one particular instrument. Expect happy accidents with piles of clothes, last chances with borrowed lutes and erased presets for bass-heavy harmonisers. Tracklist: Amma Ateria – Vielä Aymeric

Review: B/B/S/ - Brick Mask

Within those lurking, echo-washed guitar notes opening up “Brick” comes the inevitability of upward ascent. These early intrusions on silence are like the initial conversational remarks between strangers – cautious, stifled into single notes and fleeting swells that lay out the first few items in each collaborator’s timbral shop window

Review: Aidan Baker - The Spectrum of Distraction

99% of the time, the shuffle button is not a muso’s best friend. But sadly, it now stands for the way in which the general attitude to music has changed in the digital age. Albums are not standalone products to be appreciated in their own isolated narratives; they are

Interview: Aidan Baker (Nadja, Whisper Room, Infinite Light Ltd)

Let’s start with your latest solo effort, Still Lives. I’ve seen you refer to it as a bit of a departure from previous material – was it always the intention to try something a bit different? Well the most obvious difference is that there’s no guitar on it

Review: Infinite Light, Ltd - S/T

A strange one, this. Rather than occupy the musical overlap between its collaborators, Infinite Light, Ltd is in a constant to-and-fro between styles – drifting into giant drone passageways, veering off into folky lo-fi guitar noodling, and stumbling into gentle, piano-lead melancholia. It’s not devoid of an identity exactly; it

Review: Aidan Baker + Thisquietarmy - Orange

Initially, this one is difficult to grasp. It forever sounds unsettled, as if tugging itself in umpteen directions at once only to remain static – it’s full of internal activity but with no resultant forward motion, with drones and noises writhing anarchically into thick clouds of sound. It all feels