Flabaire – Summer Sun
This is taken from efflorescence iii, a VA compilation from Dutch label Project Indigo who have been flying the flag for dreamy, emotional house and techno for the last decade or so. Home to TPW favourites like Lb Honne and Hame, Flabaire was a new name to me, but it someone I’ll be keeping a…
Mabe Fratti, Bill Ocutt – El inicio es cuestión de suerte
Almost Waking is a collaborative album from Mabe Fratti and Bill Orcutt, bringing together Fratti’s cello, voice and experimental songwriting with Orcutt’s distinctive, often unpredictable guitar playing. Across eight tracks, the pair create something that feels loose and exploratory as cello and guitar weave around each other, occasionally becoming difficult to distinguish, while Fratti’s vocals…
One Track Mind: Charbel Haber
The Lebanese artist on the haunting quality of a Fennesz classic 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…
Boards of Canada – Age Of Capricorn
According to the Guardian the new Boards of Canada album Inferno sounds like Coldplay and is a “big disappointment”. I strongly disagree. https://boardsofcanada.bandcamp.com/album/inferno
Lord of the Isles – Venus Flux
Venus Flux is a new four-track EP by Scottish producer Lord Of The Isles, which opens with a beatless ambient piece built from slow-moving analog tones ahead of two live-improvised dub techno tracks which form the core of the EP. But it’s the closing track, Venus Flux, that’s got me; a reflective, broken-beat number right…
Lowly – Liminal Space
Lowly’s new single Liminal Space is described as a “twinkling mid-tempo ballad buoyed by soothing-yet-haunting guitar melodies and Soffie and Nanna’s crystal-clear, blissful harmonies”, and that’s true, but you could say the same about 80% of their tracks. If you Lowly in general, you’ll likely be a fan of this. And if this is your…
The Predatory Wasp 