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Sam Lee: songdreaming (digital, Cooking Vinyl, March 2024)

A bit out of my normal orbit, this one. I didn’t find it through any of my normal sources, but — gasp! — I heard a track from it on the actual radio, and liked it enough to look out the album. I’m glad I did. I think this is the first pretty much straight-up […]

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The Orb featuring Lee Scratch Perry: The Orbserver In The Star House (CD, Cooking Vinyl, August 2012)

I admire The Orb. I own a couple of seminal works. In practice, I don’t listen to them all that often. And I’m highly sceptical of their more recent efforts. I think they fell into the ambient sandtrap: the genre is inherently loosely structured, but there’s an elusive something which saves the good stuff from […]