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Students Of Decay

Review: Billy Gomberg - Slight At That Contact

This is music in a larval state. Through a process of unfurling and awakening, Slight At That Contact exercises all of the phonetic and gestural behaviours that will later be refined into language. Segmented body parts unsheathe to the crack of acoustic plosive, as keyboards gurgle and click like a

Review: Sarah Davachi - Barons Court

So often I settle for hearing so little. Perhaps I have grown accustomed to letting sound hit me like an animal stampede; colour blurred by movement, all detail lost to the splay of focal points. I catch everything at a glance, and each sonic object – each tiny morsel of timbre

Review: Anne Guthrie - Codiaeum Variegatum

The sounds of nature are not merely overlain; not draped like thick blankets over horns and violins that jut out in protest at poor placement, forever pulling away from the field recordings that never fully fused in the first place. Landscape and instrument writhe within one another; ivy curls out

Review: Aquarelle - August Undone

August Undone bursts upward; vertical jets of guitar resound in celebration, as an orchestra seeping through a white noise waterfall. Like a homage to the oft under-estimated might of the liquid form (crescendos materialising as pressurised fountain explosions, weighty major-key tides rolling in unison and almighty crashing waves coming down