Jura, ML Buch, Clarissa Connelly, Ydegirl, Helene Norup Due – You Make A Fire, You Make A Camp
Intriguing, somewhat lugubrious chamber-pop piece from quite the gathering of breathy, alternative Scandi talent which landed today with zero fanfare. I wonder what they’re cooking up? https://boomkat.com/products/you-make-a-fire-you-make-a-camp
Paperclip Minimiser – II A2
Meticulously assembled from a good 15 years’ worth of source material, Cong Burn boss John Howes’ second Paperclip Minimiser album takes as its source material an unreleased album that Howes engineered in various locations across the north of England, starting way back in 2011. The result is a sparse but satisfying mix of bass, techno…
Yaya Bey – Forty Days
Yaya Bey’s new album Fidelity is a companion piece to last year’s do it afraid. Where the previous record was framed by grief, Fidelity pushes further, examining how that grief is processed and centres on what Bey describes as the “Three Deaths”: personal loss following her father’s passing, the erosion of community through displacement and…
One Track Mind: Maria BC
The American experimental musician on a song full of spiritual intensity. The premise of One Track Mind is pretty simple: I ask artists to pick one track that means a lot to them – either something they’ve discovered recently, something that’s been with them for years, or one that reminds them of a specific time…
Penelope Trappes – Platinum (Saint Etienne Rework)
Penelope Trappes A Requiem was one of the best albums of last year. Since then she’s released an expanded edition with A Requiem: AEternum and more recently a remix LP OPVS NOVUM: A Requiem Reworked featuring new interpretations from artists like Julia Holter, Dania and Saint Etienne, whose dreamy, emotionally-charged take on Platinum landed last…
Samba Jean-Baptiste – Fatale
+3 is somewhat of a shift for Samba Jean-Baptiste, still hazy and inward-looking but with more shape than his debut, leaning into blurred guitars, soft-focus vocals and loose, drifting arrangements and pulling from the same orbit as artists like Dean Blunt or Frank Ocean. There’s definitely a bit of drift over the album’s running time,…
The Predatory Wasp 