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Audiopile Review: Phil Elverum faced a daunting task following The Microphones in 2020, his masterful 40+ minute autobiographical return to a long-abandoned name. Now, pivoting back to his Mount Eerie alias, Elverum draws us closer to the varied untethered experimental spirit of his early work as The Microphones, contrasting with...
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Audiopile Review: Basque experimental-punk and free-jazz artist Iker Munduate makes a drastic shift away from his roots, embarking on this maiden voyage under his own name that tills the fertile territory of Japanese Environmental music. Munduate joins an ever-growing crowd of Environmental Music devotees—Unknown Me, Green-House and Oval Angle are...
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HOME RECORDINGS (2018-2021) “Who is Yara Asmar and how does she make music so strangely beautiful? The 25-year-old instrumentalist-puppeteer lives in Beirut with her cat, Mushroom, and presumably that’s the feline’s shadow next to the artist’s on the album’s back cover. The warm light of that photograph and the quiet...
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Audiopile Review: Only a week since we listed the Hiding Places reissue, the 2019 billy woods LP alongside producer Kenny Segal, we’re treated to the newest full length from ELUCID. While Backwoodz has been centered around reissuing the sought after back catalog of the extended Armand Hammer universe, Fat Possum...
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Audiopile Review: After the runaway success of 2023’s Maps, the second collaboration between billy woods and Kenny Segal, Backwoodz dips into the extensive back catalog of woods and reissues one of his most sought after LPs, 2019’s Hiding Places (originals were going for about $400!). While Maps was a rare...
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Audiopile Review: Coming not long after introducing the world to Nourished By Time, as well as hipping us to ML Buch & Astrid Sonne collaborator Vanessa Bedoret, London’s Scenic Route combine a pair of digital-only EPs from Mark William Lewis for this single LP, notably raising the profile of one...
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Audiopile Review: Another transmission from the fertile Danish underground, though this one doesn’t skew towards the sidewinding pop that we’ve been enamoured with through the year (see: ML Buch, Fine, Astrid Sonne). Coming courtesy of the recently launched 15 Love label, who have had our full attention since releasing the...
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THE PLAIN TRUTH== we drifted through it, arguing. every day a new war crime, every day a flower bloom. we sat down together and wrote it in one room, and then sat down in a different room, recording. NO TITLE= what gestures make sense while tiny bodies fall? what context?...
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Audiopile Review: The bittersweet final piece of the Broadcast story has arrived, which follows on from the revealing Spell Blanket, an archival survey of demos and unreleased material covering their 2006-2009 period. Distant Call precedes that, covering demo recordings made during the run from HaHa Sound, Future Crayon and Tender...
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Honour’s debut album is a ligament stretching from Lagos to London and to New York, curling across the diaspora and brushing the darker hues of blues, hip-hop, free jazz, ambient, gospel with Christian mythology and Yoruba folklore. As cinematic as it is painterly, Àlàáfíà is a meditation on themes of...
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There’s a dance, and on occasion a place to go dancing, where we while away the inevitable in the distinct hopes that we can better embrace what’s left of clocks that only run one way. You see, time is the issue and the issue is all about doing a dance...
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Only a few of these - one for the hardcore. Lolina Live, and this time in Geneva (Performed at cave12, 26.09.2018). A special document beautifully presented on a single LP in gatefold sleeve by Big Love Records, Harajuku, Tokyo....
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“Unrecognisable” is a story about a city where buildings are used as weapons in a war between the government and the people. The initial chapter, “Eiffel Shard”, was published as an online graphic novel with an interactive soundtrack. It depicts a phone call between Paris Hell and Geneva Heat, two...
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THE LIGHT IS LEAVING US ALL is one of the C93 albums that haunts me the most. I was OverMoon and Blessed to work on it with the Astonishing Aeonic Beautiful Talents of Reinier Van Houdt, Alasdair Roberts, Ossian Brown, Rita Knuistingh Neven, Andrew Liles, Aloma Ruiz Boada, Michael York,...
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Audiopile Review: Peel Dream Magazine step even further away from their fuzz-laden kraut-pop origins on Rose Main Reading Room, their most accomplished and inspired album to date. While their last album, Pad, was a stripped-down effort focused on intimate songwriting in the vein of sun-soaked ‘60s pop psychedelia, they go...