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*Press A* ~ Tasty 2018 Leftovers: Kingdom – Two Crowns
The curse of compiling annual lists of our favorite releases is that a few soundtracks are always released too late in the year for us to properly digest. We thus present over the coming days three albums that would have
*Press A* ~ Tasty 2018 Leftovers: Kingdom – Two Crowns
The curse of compiling annual lists of our favorite releases is that a few soundtracks are always released too late in the year for us to properly digest. We thus present over the coming days three albums that would have
Lee Gamble ~ In a Paraventral Scale
In a Paraventral Scale plays with the idea that there might be a musical note set that exists at the sides of the ventral scales, which can be found at the bottom of snakes, smaller and more flexible, covered by
Lee Gamble ~ In a Paraventral Scale
In a Paraventral Scale plays with the idea that there might be a musical note set that exists at the sides of the ventral scales, which can be found at the bottom of snakes, smaller and more flexible, covered by
Black to Comm ~ Seven Horses for Seven Kings
How do you go about capturing regression in an avant-garde form? Experimental approaches will always undermine any traditional references, and even at their most dystopian they will always capture an abrasiveness that is fundamentally new. Seven Horses for Seven Kings
Black to Comm ~ Seven Horses for Seven Kings
How do you go about capturing regression in an avant-garde form? Experimental approaches will always undermine any traditional references, and even at their most dystopian they will always capture an abrasiveness that is fundamentally new. Seven Horses for Seven Kings
Laibach ~ The Sound of Music
By now, you probably know this album’s story: avant-garde collective Laibach go to North Korea in 2015 and become the first Western band to play there ever since the country split in two. What they play is a variation on
Laibach ~ The Sound of Music
By now, you probably know this album’s story: avant-garde collective Laibach go to North Korea in 2015 and become the first Western band to play there ever since the country split in two. What they play is a variation on
Diego Lozano & Roberto Tercero ~ Carraca
Carraca refers to the ships with which emerging European states started their centuries-long process of plundering the rest of the world, successors to the caravel and the predecessors of the better-built galleons of the seventeenth century. The piece that bears
Diego Lozano & Roberto Tercero ~ Carraca
Carraca refers to the ships with which emerging European states started their centuries-long process of plundering the rest of the world, successors to the caravel and the predecessors of the better-built galleons of the seventeenth century. The piece that bears
V/A ~ Anthology of Electroacoustic Lebanese Music
A black and white picture of a fence and the wreckage of a modern(ist) building: that is our welcome to this Anthology of Electroacoustic Lebanese Music, featuring artists primarily based in Beirut. EAM and its more extreme sibling EAI are
V/A ~ Anthology of Electroacoustic Lebanese Music
A black and white picture of a fence and the wreckage of a modern(ist) building: that is our welcome to this Anthology of Electroacoustic Lebanese Music, featuring artists primarily based in Beirut. EAM and its more extreme sibling EAI are
Tajak ~ Ciclos
A swirl at the edge of an emotional cliff, a bright light pouring from a crack in the back of your skull – the psychedelic pathways opened by Mexican band Tajak are diverse and multiple, but they all come back
Tajak ~ Ciclos
A swirl at the edge of an emotional cliff, a bright light pouring from a crack in the back of your skull – the psychedelic pathways opened by Mexican band Tajak are diverse and multiple, but they all come back
Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt ~ Brace Up!
What’s in an involuntary gesture? We’re used to framing it as a loss of control, but we could also conceive of tics and physiological tremors as a bodily effort to take said control back, to call the attention of an
Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt ~ Brace Up!
What’s in an involuntary gesture? We’re used to framing it as a loss of control, but we could also conceive of tics and physiological tremors as a bodily effort to take said control back, to call the attention of an
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