Well, this bangs extremely pleasingly, doesn’t it? Charlotte de Witte has been producing proper hard techno for a decade — I first came across her in 2020, and raved about that 12″ — but this is her first LP. It is proper hard techno, and it is really really good. Most of the tracks here […]
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There appear to be at least two Anna von Hausswolves out there. There’s the pipe-organ-drone-metal Hausswolf who I first encountered on Källan (Betatype), and who memorably guested on the Sunn O))) session for 6 Music. Then there’s the pipe-organ-epic-power-balladry Hausswolf of, say, Dead Magic. This record is emphatically in the latter category. And I’ve got […]
There are a handful records where the sound of the first few notes is enough to tell me that it’s going to take me to my happy place. Radiohead’s Kid A, which starts with the gorgeous synth swell of Everything In Its Right Place, is one that springs to mind. This is another. The layers […]
Throwback time. The last Clark release I bought was the Growl’s Garden mini-album that came out in 2009. And, yeah, this new one sounds pretty much of a part with his noughties releases. Which is to say, it is very IDM indeed. It’s full of skittering rhythms, often expressed through sinuous synth lines — there […]
I am on record as being a sucker for a nice bit of cello, and this is a very nice bit of cello indeed. (I read that this marks return to the centering of the instrument for Jensen, although it was also at the core of the last record of hers I bought, 2018’s For […]
The first thing you notice — okay, the first thing I noticed, but I suspect you’re the same — about this are Saienko’s vocals. She is Ukrainian and is singing in (I learn) the white voice, a folk music style which is open-throated and rich and resonant and really very striking: you can feel passion […]
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OSMIUM: OSMIUM (digital, INVADA, June 2025)
Osmium is, of course, the heaviest of heavy metals, which makes it kind of a brilliant band name. I have to say, this isn’t what you’d probably imagine if you tried to conjure up the heaviest of heavy metal. It would probably be more helpful to describe this as the most experimental of experimental metal. […]
This one kind of snuck up on me. I gave it a listen because (a) I have fond memories of 2015’s Yellow Bell, and (b) it has a cool name. My initial reaction to the first few minutes was that it was nice but unremarkable. And yet by the end of that first listen I […]
Amosphère is a “Chinese-born, Paris-based composer and multidisciplinary artist”. And on this record, she has provided three very thoughtful pieces for us to delve into. Land Of Eternal Delight immediately captured my interest with its curious, wheezing sound. It features hand-made ceramic instruments, flute, and apparently trumpet although that’s quite well disguised, all cycling over […]
Back in the mid-to-late-noughties, when I was in my ubercoolische minimal techno phase, I loved the sounds of the Tunisian–German Loco Dice. His output (often in collaboration with Martin Buttrich) was quite varied, and I loved pretty much all of it, from the stripped back tracks on M_nus like Seeing Through Shadows to the lusher […]
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