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Clark: Steep Stims (digital, Throttle, November 2025)

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 […]

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Loradeniz: SUN SHONE (digital, Music From Memory, March 2025)

This solo debut from Deniz Omeroglu (described as Istanbul-born, Amsterdam-based) is very much an album of two halves. Happily, she plays an absolute blinder in both. The first half was apparently composed spontaneously in the aftermath of a heartbreak, and consists of contemplative, woozy synth tracks. There are largely wordless vocals, of a sighing nature, […]