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Kelly Lee Owens: Dreamstate (digital, dh2, October 2024)

I’m pretty sure this (Owens fourth album, and the first since her eponymous debut that I’ve shelled out for) isn’t the classiest thing I’ve been listening to recently. Resident Advisor, say, were decidedly sniffy about it. Well, nuts to it. From the cheery trance of the opening track, Dark Angel, to the strings-and-piano electro-folk of […]

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Aphex Twin: Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / in a room7 F760 (digital, Warp Records, July 2023)

When this came out in the summer, the first proper new Aphex material in five years, I had a weird mix of emotions: excitement, nervousness (in case it was shit), and an oddly conflicted feeling because I identify as an Aphex fan, but to be honest have been kind of ambivalent about everything since Syro, […]