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Adam Wiltzie – Dim Hopes

Post author By The Predatory Wasp
Post date April 10, 2024

Sodium Pentothal is a rapid-onset short-acting barbiturate general anesthetic and the substance Stars of the Lids’ Adam Wiltzie used as inspiration for his latest album, Eleven Fugues For Sodium Pentothal; a suite of songs inspired by a recurring dream wherein “if someone listened to the music I created, then they would die.” Pretty bleak right! And he doesn’t stop there. “When you are sitting face forward on the daily emotional meat grinder of life, I always wished I could have some [barbiturate], so I could just fall asleep automatically and the feeling would not be there anymore.” If this all sounds overwhelmingly depressing, the music is anything but, with Dim Hopes especially building towards a climax that is without doubt closer to catharsis than to oblivion.

https://adamwiltzie.bandcamp.com/album/eleven-fugues-for-sodium-pentothal

Tags adam wiltzie, album, ambient, stars of the lid

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Kelly Moran – Moves in the Field

Post author By The Predatory Wasp
Post date April 1, 2024

Kelly Moran builds on the stripped-back, mesmeric piano that comprised 2023’s EP Vesela with her new album Moves in the Field. Gone are the experimental electronic meanderings of some of her previous work, replaced with these (relatively) straightforward but still completely enchanting pieces.

https://kellymoran.bandcamp.com/album/moves-in-the-field

Tags album, classical, kelly moran, piano

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Bianca Scout – Forest Spirit feat. Darkmarik

Post author By The Predatory Wasp
Post date March 29, 2024

Blurring the lines between chamber music, contemporary dance, dark pop and ethereal ambience, Klein, Mica Levi and Space Afrika collaborator Bianca Scout distills a decade of multidisciplinary work with her new album Pattern Damage, moving between diaristic ephemera, demure post-punk and chamber ambient, and cracking open bewildering crypto-romantique wormholes in the process. And yes, this is pretty much a direct copy and paste of the release hype, but a) it’s accurate and b) it’s a bank holiday and I have better (lazier) things to be doing.

https://sferic.bandcamp.com/album/pattern-damage-2

Tags album, bianca scout, chamber pop, electronic, experimental

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Laetitia Sadier – Protéïformunité

Post author By The Predatory Wasp
Post date March 28, 2024

French artist Laetitia Sadier’s new album Rooting For Love is billed as a call to the traumatized civilizations of Earth, urging us to “evolve past our countless millennia of suffering and alienation”. Organ, guitar, bass, synth, trombone, vibraphone, live and programmed drums combine, yes, Air comparisons are appropriate and not just cos French: but there’s a edge here that’s absent from much of Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel’s soft-focus oeuvre.

https://laetitiasadier.bandcamp.com/album/rooting-for-love

Tags album, dream pop, electronic, laetitia sadier

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Adrienne Lenker – Already Lost

Post author By The Predatory Wasp
Post date March 26, 2024

I run a little hot and cold on Big Thief – some of their work is incredible, some very meh – but I’m really enjoying Adrienne Lenker’s new solo album Bright Future, which is way more stripped down and even more contemplative, and even veers into Sufjan territory when she picks up the banjo. Track titles like Sadness As A Gift should give you an idea of the overall tone, but if you’re keen for some (arguably) self-indulgent introspection then it absolutely delivers. Already Lost is a highlight, including as it does some truly devastatingly poignant melodies.

https://adriannelenker.bandcamp.com/album/bright-future

Tags adrienne lenker, album, country, indie rock, singer songwriter

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Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, Shahzad Ismaily – To Remain/To Return

Post author By The Predatory Wasp
Post date March 19, 2024

I’ve been sulking about the woeful Glastonbury line-up for the last few days, but now it’s time I got over it and got on with my life. And even though there are so few acts I’m excited about seeing that it genuinely makes me sad, there are a few glimmers of light; Arooj Aftab among them. To Remain/To Return is from Love In Exile, an album I completely missed last year, with Vijay Iyer on pianos and electronics, Shahzad Ismaily on bass and Moog synth Aftab’s soaring Urdu vocals.

https://www.loveinexile.net/

Tags album, aroof aftab, experimental, jazz, shazad ismaily, vijay iyer

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HOMESHAKE – Letting Go

Post author By The Predatory Wasp
Post date March 11, 2024

HOMESHAKE is the long-running solo project of Toronto-based musician Peter Sagar. His sixth album, CD WALLET landed last week and was written and recorded over a majority of 2023 at his home studio in Toronto and was ““made in a heavy, straightforward indie rock style to impress my childhood self”. Hazy guitars abound, and there’s something quietly addictive about the creeping melancholy of Letting Go that’s making me listen to it on repeat.

https://homeshake.bandcamp.com/album/cd-wallet-2

Tags album, bedroom pop, homeshake, lofi r&b

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Il Quadro Di Troisi – La Terra

Post author By The Predatory Wasp
Post date March 8, 2024

Not content with releasing arguably the best electronic album of the year so far, Donato Dozzy / Dozzers / The Big Dozz has reunited with Eva Geist – alongside the now permanent addition of previous collaborator Pietro Micioni – for a new LP under their Il Quadro Do Troisi moniker. Set for release later this month and billed as “classic Italian songwriting with an electronic spin”, expect soaring vocals and plenty of bubbling, electro basslines.

https://raster-raster.bandcamp.com/album/la-commedia

Tags album, electro, electronic, il quadro di troisi

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Numa Gama – exex (hack)

Post author By The Predatory Wasp
Post date March 7, 2024

Apologies for the complete lack of music recently, but it’s been a busy old week. Hopefully you’ve been finding your own way regardless. I’ve been doing some deep ambient dives over the last few days to help me coping with the rising tension, and have come across a few gems I missed from earlier in the year, my favourite of which is probably Numa Gama’s album A Spectral Turn which brilliantly blends ambient, and IDM textures with post-rave, dub techno-adjacent rhythms.