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Richard Skelton: selonodesy (digital, Phantom Limb, March 2023)

Ach, he’s only bloody gone and done it again. I love Landings Skelton’s 2010 album of ragged string studies, which was one of my first forays into the world of what Boomkat used to call Home Listening / Modern Classical / Ambient. I love the epic drone of Limnology, and I was bowled over by […]

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Claire Rousay: Everything Perfect Is Already Here (digital, Shelter Press, April 2022)

I really liked Rousay’s aptly-named A Softer Focus. She put out a slightly baffling selection of limited-edition cassettes and collaborations in the twelve months after that release, but this seems to be her first major solo work — and it’s a cracker. The basic formula is similar: classical instrumentation, electronic ambience, rather domestic-sounding field recordings, […]