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Audiopile Review: Khotin returns to his own imprint for a mini-album that stands as the perfect summation of his now decade-long project, touching on a bit of everything that have made his albums so crucial for anyone invested in contemporary electronic music. Titled Peace Portal, Khotin gives a not so...
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Audiopile Review: Thankful that the folks over at Stroom have repressed the critical second LP from Dutch outfit Voice Actor, which was an instant sell-out upon release earlier this year, and now we finally have enough copies to list it here. Ostensibly now a solo project helmed by Noa Kurzweil...
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Audiopile Review: The Silent Season catalog is a dense one. Though the label has been dormant for a few years now—label head Jamie McCue currently focusing on his dub-forward 7 inch-only imprint Moon Garden—this week and next will see first-time vinyl pressings of a pair of releases, dusting off some...
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Audiopile Review: You may associate Chicago’s Thrill Jockey label with the coolly cerebral sounds of Tortoise and Oval. But, in recent years, Thrill Jockey has been tilling the extreme left field of heavy music. Acts like Sumac (featuring Vancouver’s Nick Yacyshyn) make post-metal that’s more post than metal. Especially in...
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Audiopile Review: Whenever a fiercely independent shop favourite makes the leap to a well known label, we can’t help but feel a bit of apprehension. Those concerns dissolve almost instantly after hearing the ambient tone poem that opens Maria Somerville’s 4AD debut, Luster. Coming six years after her previous album,...
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Audiopile Review: Whenever a fiercely independent shop favourite makes the leap to a well known label, we can’t help but feel a bit of apprehension. Those concerns dissolve almost instantly after hearing the ambient tone poem that opens Maria Somerville’s 4AD debut, Luster. Coming six years after her previous album,...
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Audiopile Review: Every great artist has a singular moment when they produce something unique and unrepeatable. Arthur Russell clearly knew this, as he never even tried to recapture the magic unleashed by 1987’s ‘World of Echo’. Using voice and processed cello, Russell pulled nine-dimensional song structures from that ethereal zone...
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Audiopile Review: Quite chuffed to finally see an attainable pressing of Pink Siifu’s 2019 collab with Yungmorpheus arrive in the shop, an album that was initially issued as one of those expensive Bandcamp-only-releases-that-sells-out-in-5-minutes releases that have been plaguing underground hip-hop releases the past few years. Sour grapes aside, we’re just...
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Audiopile Review: While the ECM label has come back into fashion recently, there are still common misconceptions about Manfred Eicher’s legendary labour of love. These often centre on an oversimplified view of ECM’s trajectory. That would go something like: avant-garde 70s, new-age 80s, jazz-school everything else. But it’s ridiculous to...
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Audiopile Review: Detouring from his usual dour jangle fair, Bobby Would turn in a metaphysical drone album for his newest on Digital Regress. While a sizeable move away from the “fog pop” that we’ve come to know him by, it also isn’t coming entirely out of leftfield. Originally recorded live...
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Audiopile Review: Philly’s King Blood makes an unexpected but fully welcome return, landing once again on his hometown imprint Petty Bunco (Emily Robb, Astute Palate, David Nance) for his first album since 2019’s Hocus Focus. We probably first stumbled across King Blood back in 2010, the deep digging folks over...
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Audiopile Review: Portland’s Paul Dickow, aka Strategy, is one of the most underappreciated electronic music artists of our age. We once saw him inexplicably clear a room at the New Forms Festival with a set of mind-bending (but, honestly, not that imposing) abstract dub. Truth is, Dickow’s angle on a...
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Audiopile Review: After months of waiting patiently, we’ve finally got copies of CINE, last year’s collab between Cavalier & Child Actor issued on Backwoodz. If you’ve been tracking the Backwoodz family tree, both of these names ought to be familiar to you at this point—Cavalier’s been a frequent scene stealer...
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Audiopile Review: Moritz von Oswald and Mark Ernestus are generally given credit for inventing dub techno under their duo aliases Basic Channel and Rhythm & Sound. But it was as curators of the Chain Reaction label that they really designed the template for what dub techno would become. Like everything...
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Audiopile Review: Vancouver’s Jamison Isaak takes a break from his regular duties as the in-demand producer and remixer Teen Daze, circling back to his Pacific Coliseum guise after a lengthy hiatus. Pacific Coliseum first caught our attention almost a decade back with Ocean City, his debut cassette released at the...
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Audiopile Review: Alfa Mist, the London-based pianist and producer once again teams up with drummer Richard Spaven, a long-time active member of the city’s ever-vibrant jazz scene and collaborator with the likes of Flying Lotus and Goldie. Alfa Mist has never been one to shy away from his love of...
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Audiopile Review: Saskatchewan-based guitarist and sound artist Michael Scott Dawson offers up his fifth album, Guitar, Solo, a limited edition release pressed specifically for his just launched tour in Japan. Since 2021, Dawson has been bringing to life the sound of the prairies through his work in the pastoral ambient-jazz...
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Audiopile Review: Deconstructed club has been a hard-to-define puzzle of a genre—yet when it comes to aya, it's hard to think of a better umbrella term for her singular, unconventional sound. While her previous release, 2021’s im hole, was shrouded in stark production and mystery, hexed! rips away the cloak,...
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Audiopile Review: Deb Googe’s status as a bass goddess is surely undisputed. If all she had done was play in the classic line-up of My Bloody Valentine, she’d still be a legend (hell, all she’d really need to have done was play the intro run on ‘Soft as...
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Audiopile Review: It’s possible to be a fan of an artist while simply missing a significant portion of their artistry. Plenty of MFs worship the godlike Peter Hammill as a prog deity for his work with Van der Graaf Generator, without even knowing that his late 70s solo...
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Audiopile Review: By now, you must know how much we love Seefeel. Sitting pretty at the intersection of shoegaze and IDM, Seefeel is a 90s touchstone for true heads, and surely a dream come true for newcomers. In case you happen to be one of those newcomers, we’ll mention that...
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Audiopile Review: The arrival of affordable home recording technology in the 1980s is mostly celebrated for birthing all manner of scratchy post-punk and tinny synth pop. Don’t get us wrong, we love that stuff. But it also allowed folks from the pre-punk progressive underground to experience a previously impossible artistic...
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Audiopile Review: The arrival of affordable home recording technology in the 1980s is mostly celebrated for birthing all manner of scratchy post-punk and tinny synth pop. Don’t get us wrong, we love that stuff. But it also allowed folks from the pre-punk progressive underground to experience a previously impossible artistic...
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Audiopile Review: Six years after his debut release, Barker finally follows up Utility, his splashy debut of pointillist IDM euphoria that brought to life his now infamous DJ sets at Berghain. Arriving via Smalltown Supersound, who are on an incredible streak of releases right now, Stochastic Drift drills ever further...
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Audiopile Review: Hot on the heels of Music For Bus Stations, his overt nod to Brian Eno, Rod Modell burrows even deeper into finely detailed ambient immersion with the appropriately titled Northern Michigan Snowstorms. Once again landing on Italian imprint 13, the label has been a primary outlet for Modell...
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Audiopile Review: Finally arriving at the long format after a steady string of 12”s, UK producer Conrad Pack summons a potent dose of his driving techno on the triumphant Commandments. With relentless force, Pack hearkens back to the hammering end of R&S-era Aphex while also referencing Spiral Tribe’s manic techno,...
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Audiopile Review: Something just occurred to us about the marvelous trio albums Oren Ambarchi has been making with Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin. They could almost be stripped-back mixes of tracks from the last couple of Talk Talk albums. That connection became clear when we heard ‘Kind Regards’, Ambarchi’s new...
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Audiopile Review: Just occasionally, we get blessed with a for-the-heads reissue from the deep CD era. The recent first-time-on-vinyl edition of Annette Peacock’s staggering ‘An Acrobat’s Heart’, for example, was a notable highlight of ECM’s ongoing Luminescence series. Maybe, one day, we’ll get a vinyl edition of the godlike Peter...
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Audiopile Review: Since the dissolution of ambient post-rock legends Labradford in the early 2000s, Mark Nelson has made loads of excellent albums as Pan American. What started out as a more electronically inclined side project has blossomed into a formidable back catalogue. If we’re honest, for us, little of it...
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Audiopile Review: Like Oren Ambarchi, Lawrence English emerged from Australia in the early 2000s producing edgy takes on post-Fennesz ambient music. The similarities don’t end there. They’ve both recorded for Touch, they both run phenomenal experimental music labels (Black Truffle and Room 40), and they both have large back catalogues...
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Audiopile Review: Quietly self-released in 2023, Acopia’s self-titled sophomore album could have easily drifted into obscurity—another drop lost in Bandcamp’s endless sea of dream pop. Initially self released, Berlin-based producer Palms Trax and his CWPT have come to the rescue, giving this a deservedly wider reissue. Though each member had...
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Audiopile Review: Getting to this one a bit late due to issues sourcing Estonian jazz imprint RR Gems the past year, but we’ve got that all sorted finally. Coming in alongside a limited reissue of his breakthrough self-titled LP, RR Gems launches yet another new project from the NYC-based composer...
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Audiopile Review: One of two new voyages from the Sam Gendel multiverse lands on these here shores, with the saxophonist collaborating here alongside longtime pal Benny Bock and Norwegian experimentalist Hans Kjorstad. Like so much of Gendel’s prodigious output, Dream Trio captures a spontaneous exchange between kindred spirits, the trio...
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Audiopile Review: This is actually 2024 release that we caught up to a bit late, but rectifying the oversight now. Issued last year on Levain, one segment of the growing circle of labels emanating from the crucial Danish Safe Distribution, Goesun reps their pleasingly warm aesthetic perfectly with a long...
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Audiopile Review: At present, the present has a nasty habit of cleaning up the past. Right now, some idiot is using a robot to make The Beatles sound like all their albums were made in Ableton. Or something. Point is, the past is complicated and messy, and that’s its charm....
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Audiopile Review: Conna Haraway, the Glaswegian producer and head of the co:clear imprint, breaks out with his first vinyl release, following up a cassette issued a few years back on Theory Therapy. That label might ring a bell to some of our eagle-eyed readers—the Aussie label collaborated with Haraway’s co:clear...
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Audiopile Review: New age legend Ariel Kalma is clearly unable to rest on his laurels and be JUST a new age legend. While his music has always been as spiritually blissed as you could hope for, it has a rigour that Kalma clearly learned when studying electro-acoustic music at France’s...
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Audiopile Review: The Manchester-based electronic music duo Demdike Stare continues to pump out quality product that encompasses a range of formats and concepts. And yet, it feels like DS hasn’t made a BIG statement since the three albums collected in 2011’s ‘Triptych’. On the surface, ‘To Cut & Shoot’ doesn’t...
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Audiopile Review: After a very quiet 2024 that consisted of just one physical release, West Mineral return with the sophomore album from Shinetiac, the trio made up of Pontiac Streator, Shiner and Ben Bondy. You’d be forgiven for missing their first venture, a 2023 streaming/digital-only release of skewered hyper-pop and...
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Audiopile Review: If you’re running a record store, unclassifiable musicians represent both a blessing and a curse. We love Annette Peacock, Grace Jones, Virginia Astley, Arthur Russell, and the godlike Peter Hammill. But it’s often hard to know where to put them, in a very literal, physical sense. To this...
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Audiopile Review: Loraine James has built an impeccable track record in the UK electronic scene. When working under her own name, she leans into IDM, while her Whatever the Weather moniker gives space for her ambient inclinations. This latest entry refines the sounds of the project's debut with a sharper...
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Audiopile Review: Silent State Recordings faithfully restore another classic from the expansive and daunting Pete Namlook catalog, this time around landing on his beloved Dreamfish project, a duo alongside UK chill out specialist DJ Mixmaster Morris. The first of two releases from Dreamfish, it’s also one of the few FAX...
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Audiopile Review: Finnish imprint Ultraääni Records continues their stellar outpour of Scandinavian jazz and experimental records, this time around dishing a new album from Organic Pulse Ensemble, a one-man spiritual jazz outfit based in Sweden, helmed by Gustav Horneij. OPE has actually been on a bit of a tear as...
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Audiopile Review: A weird theory: when a serious artist gets goofy, it stinks, but when a goofy artist gets serious, it rules. Does anyone think ‘The Laughing Gnome’ is David Bowie’s best song? Or how about Bowie’s hero, the godlike Peter Hammill? As we’re sure you’ve noticed, his novelty single...
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Audiopile Review: Fresh of her arrangement duties from last week’s release from Alabaster DePlume, in-demand collaborator and string specialist Macie Stewart issues a striking LP for International Anthem. The label has an incredible nose for sniffing out emerging talent and supplying a space for them to experiment in ways that...
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Audiopile Review: Truly weird shit is not prominent enough in electronic music, where recycling genre conventions is all-to-often replacing genuine experimentalism. Thank goodness for square pegs like Claire Rousay. You never know what to expect from her. Straightforwardly beautiful ambient drones? Bedroom indie folk? Bracingly extreme computer music? Rousay’s latest,...
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Audiopile Review: It’s weird when a significant (or just plain famous) artist has their greatest impact with a side project. In the UK, Damon Albarn is a household name for being singer with Britpop titans Blur. But internationally, he’s had more influence and commercial success with whatever Gorillaz is supposed...
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Audiopile Review: Over the past decade, few collectives have been as influential—or as polarizing—in modern hip-hop as Drain Gang. With a devoted online following, the Swedish outfit has pushed the boundaries of cloud rap, pop, and R&B. Two of the most prominent members, Bladee and Ecco2k, have each carved out...
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