Kranky
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Audiopile Review: Kranky is a vintage label that seems more relevant than ever. In a world where all that was solid has melted into air, the ambient post-rock of acts like Labradford and Stars of the Lid seems distinctly prescient. One of Kranky’s foundational inspirations was the ECM label, which...
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Audiopile Review: After a pair of self-released cassettes, Detroit duo Clinic Stars make the big leap over to Kranky for their debut proper, marking only the third new act to appear on the label over the past four years. A new act on Kranky is sure to draw the ear...
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Audiopile Review: Recently, discussing a reissue of Belong’s 2011 ambient-pop classic ‘Common Era’, we also teased a new LP. We called it an album-of-the-year-contender. Well, now we have ‘Realistic IX’ in stock and, while time will tell regarding the AOTY thing, it’s certainly our record of the week. New Orleans-based...
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Audiopile Review: Turk Dietrich and Michael Jones, aka New Orleans ambient-pop duo Belong, have never been shy about showing their influences. Their 2008 EP, ‘Colorloss Record’ features, admittedly obfuscated, covers of psychedelic rock tunes by the likes of Syd Barrett. Their most well-known album, ‘October Language’, is transparently a heroically...
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“This sound / synapse transposition is as haunting as it is beautiful—surely Grouper’s best.”—Tiny Mix Tapes “If past Grouper releases have inhabited abyssal trenches and damp backwoods, here Harris takes us journeying across constellations and stars. Two of the most beguiling albums of the year, exquisitely realized and singularly evocative.”...
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Completing Kranky's chronologically reverse reissue program of the earlier loscil albums on vinyl, the 2001 debut album is issued on the format for the first time with the addition of three bonus tracks from the same sessions that produced the original release. “Pay no mind to the label and pay...
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Audiopile Review: The early 00’s was what you might call the golden era for Mr. Kranky, with releases that would eventually become classics of not only the Chicago imprint, but of their respective genres. Stars of the Lid’s Tired Sounds, Low’s Things We Lost in the Fire, GYBE!’s Skinny Fists...
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Audiopile Review: The perfect entry point into the ever expanding Roy Montgomery universe finally gets its first vinyl issue, his 1995 debut Temple IV. His continued onslaught of releases, which we’ve been feverishly gobbling up over the past several years (12 albums issued in the last 8 years!), can all...
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Audiopile Review: Eleven Fugues for Sodium Pentothal marks the first proper full length from Stars of the Lid co-founder Adam Wiltzie, though he’s certainly remained active over the decades with soundtrack work and other projects like The Dead Texan, Aix Em Klemm and A Winged Victory For The Sullen. Despite...
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The union of composers Lawrence English and loscil aka Scott Morgan is seamless, sublime, and long overdue. Born of a conversation centered on the notion of “rich sources” as a forge for electronic music, Colours Of Air is a collection of recordings of a century old pipe organ housed at...
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TIM HECKER’s latest work approaches a form of secular musical transcendentalism from within the battered temple of spirituality. Recorded in a church in Reykjavik, Iceland and using a pipe organ as the primary sound source, this new piece is essentially a live recording. In reality, it exists in a nether...
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It's a sign of creative maturity and marks a welcome move away from the Fennesz-style layered glitchscapes that have dominated his back-catalogue. It's hard to tell exactly how these drone tapestries are woven together; the granular laptop trickery of old is virtually undetectable and the source instruments detuned and dissolved...
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South Carolina singer and producer Niecy Blues describes her songwriting process like an undertow: “I feel a strange pull, and let it carry me, following swirling leaves… whole days roll by, forgetting about the body.” Their full-length debut, Exit Simulation, captures this sense of deep-rooted divination, cycling between simmering ballads,...
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The second album from New York City's Bowery Electric was released in late 1996, less than 15 months after their self-titled debut, but it found them having traveled light years musically in the interim, the group having seemingly decided to see how far they could take the guitar/ bass /...
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What could be better than a reissue of GROUPER’s Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill? How about an entire album of unreleased material recorded at the same time that is equal in quality? The Man Who Died In His Boat...
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The debut album from New York City's Bowery Electric was released in late summer 1995 after they came to the attention of kranky via their self-released 2x7” Drop EP from the year previous. The first in a trio of albums released by the core duo of Lawrence Chandler and Martha...
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“This sound / synapse transposition is as haunting as it is beautiful—surely Grouper’s best.”—Tiny Mix Tapes “If past Grouper releases have inhabited abyssal trenches and damp backwoods, here Harris takes us journeying across constellations and stars. Two of the most beguiling albums of the year, exquisitely realized and singularly evocative.”...
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First time vinyl release for this classic LOW holiday recording. We would suggest that few bands from an ostensibly "indie rock" background should release Christmas music, if not out of respect for the holiday or material then at least out of a sense of self-esteem. Low, however, were made for...
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The latest by Canadian composer Tim Hecker serves as a beacon of unease against the deluge of false positive corporate ambient currently in vogue. Whether taken as warning or promise, No Highs delivers – this is music of austerity and ambiguity, purgatorial and seasick. A jagged anti-relaxant for our medicated...
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The sixth album from the now-stripped-to-a-three-piece drift-off we call LABRADFORD. Four extended tracks of gorgeous guitar, soothing keyboards and samples, and delicious bass rumble that stradles the compositional chasm between organic sound sources and digital processing. Fixed::Context by Labradford...
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The first Kranky collaboration with LOW was released in the fall of 1997. The vinyl format for this has been out of print the longest of any of the band’s Kranky releases, and is finally available again for the analog purists. <a...
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“Stars Of The Lid’s Adam Wiltzie presents a collection of drone compositions that he considered too aggressive for his parent band—which means they range somewhere between a whisper and a shout. The sense of cathedral-like reverence is balanced with extreme intimacy.” —Pitchfork “This is quite possibly the best music available...
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The third full-length release for Portland, Oregon-based LIZ HARRIS. Harris might have achieved a significant fan base thanks to the whispering, near-ambient vocal crusades of her debut album Way Their Crept and its follow-up Wide, but those with a careful ear would have heard slightly more trapped beneath her fuzzy...
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The glacial distillation of Pan•American aka Mark Nelson’s “romantic minimalism” achieves unique fruition on his latest Kranky collection, The Patience Fader. A suite of solo guitar instrumentals accented with lap steel, harmonica, and twilit atmospherics, the strings smear and sparkle in elegant, windswept swells, a guitar mode once described by...
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“Ruins was made in Aljezur, Portugal in 2011 on a residency set up by Galeria Zé dos Bois. I recorded everything there except the last song, which I did at mother's house in 2004. Iʼm still surprised by what I wound up with. It was the first time Iʼd sat...
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Another Minnesota slow-down from the frozen prairie's coolest trio. Fourteen tracks of sparse and drifting space pop soothe, floated on the beautiful vocals of ALAN SPARHAWK and MIMI PARKER, and anchored by ZAK SALLY's dreamy bass....
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BACK IN PRINT!!! The ninth full-length album from slo-mo beauty dealers LOW, and the band's most assertive and expansive release to date. Thirteen tracks recorded in Minneapolis with TOM HERBERT and mixed in London by TCHAD BLAKE (Latin Playboys, Lisa Germano, Pearl Jam), and featuring guest vocals on two tracks...
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Twelve new tracks of morphinous, skeletal drift-sound wonders from the combined voices, guitars and percussion of ALAN SPARHAWK, MIMI PARKER and ZAK SALLY. Diverse and painless songs that cut simply but effectively through heart-strings and nervous systems, leaving an absorbed and beautiful corpse in their wake. Features added instrumentation of...
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The sixth full-length offering from these heavens-soaring, super-sonic, gargantuan sound explorers. A massive blend of treated strings, organs, backwards tubular bell runs, field recordings, and much more, expertly layered and crafted into a relentlessly uplifting symphony of hymnal beauty. Gracious, me. "Their relentless commitment to subtlety sets them apart, as...
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The 12th full-length by Pacific Northwest artist Liz Harris aka Grouper is a collection of songs spanning fifteen years. She characterizes Shade as an album about respite, and the coast, poetically and literally. How one frames themselves in a landscape, how in turn it frames themselves; memories and experiences carried...
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"Canadian composer Scott Morgan's 12th long-player as loscil takes its title from an influential series of early 20th century photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, abstracting clouds into miasmic, painterly canvases of smoke and shadowplay. It's a deeply fitting analog for Morgan's own musical process across the past two decades, fraying forms...
