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...