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OHYUNG – Nevada

Bruce Springsteen had his Nebraska, a bare-bones, notably bleaker record. OHYUNG now has her IOWA; stripped-down and self-produced. Ghostly echoes, mouth sounds, simulated tape hiss, late night gloom. Though beautiful, there’s an illness-of-ease to the music, a fog of threat, numerous points of rupture in otherwise serene tracks, massive subwoofer activations that could be heaven’s kick drum or the slam of a bomb. Sampled choirs in rapture, a fine line between terror and reverence. Happy Friday!

https://ohyung.bandcamp.com/album/iowa

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Isabel Pine – Sun Dog

Loads of interesting stuff out today including albums from Choker, Altin Gun and perennial TPW favourite 36, but I’m choosing to highlight Isabel Pine’s new album Fables as it’s been the perfect, chill start to the day I needed.

https://isabelpine.bandcamp.com/album/fables

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Pefkin – Green Bound In Ice and Snow

The opening track on Pefkin’s new album Unfurling is a stunning, 11-minute blend of haunting folk and icy ambient, inspired by the artist’s dreams of the coming spring. Nature has always been a central part in Pefkin’s music, and on Unfurling she captures all the elements as the record follows the transformations of the land from winter into spring – air, light, temperature, soil.

https://pefkin.bandcamp.com/album/unfurling

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OHYUNG – all dolls go to heaven

Fresh from delivering one of the best albums of last year, OHYUNG returns to the ambient textures they explored so affectingly on 2022’s imagine naked!; my favourite LP of that year. all dolls go to heaven is the lead single from the forthcoming album IOWA, described by the artist as “a memento to my time living in Iowa between 2023 and 2024” and “my ambient transexual version of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska.”

https://ohyung.bandcamp.com/album/iowa

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Julianna Barwick, Mary Lattimore – The Four Sleeping Princesses

It’s very encouraging to have an album this good released so early in the year. Tragic Magic pairs Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore in a collaboration recorded at the Philharmonie de Paris, made with rare access to instruments from the Musée de la Musique collection through InFiné. Co-produced with Trevor Spencer, the album was created in nine days, building from improvisation and the emotional carry-on of the moment.

Lattimore chose a run of historic harps that map the instrument’s evolution from the early 18th to late 19th century. Barwick worked with classic synthesisers including a Roland Jupiter and a Sequential Circuits Prophet-5, bringing soft-edged harmonic colour and air around the notes. The Four Sleeping Princesses may be a highlight, but its far from the only reason to immerse yourself in this forest of lushness.

https://marylattimoreharpist.bandcamp.com/track/the-four-sleeping-princesses

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Isabel Pine – A Flickering Light

Isabel Pine is a classically trained violist, composer and producer whose work draws deeply on nature, shaping vivid soundscapes through string textures, electronics and field recordings. After a series of self released EP’s and singles her debut LP Fables releases next month comprising a number pieces that were recorded in the fall of 2024, in a small, remote cabin and outside, primarily using stringed instruments. A Flickering Light is the second single, and it is absolutely beautiful.

https://isabelpine.bandcamp.com/album/fables

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Mikel Rev – LM 8182

More good stuff I missed from last year here courtesy of Mikel Rev. Rev is a mysterious figure from the depths of the Oslo underground, who primarily operates as part of the Ute Collective – a group of producers and DJs pushing a unique electronic and trance-forward sound, through various sublabels and live events often set amongst the lush forests of Norway. Following his debut album The Art Of Levitation on A Strangely Isolated Place back in 2023, last year’s Journey Beyond presents a selection of tracks demonstrating his obsession with the porous boundaries between ambient and trance.

https://mikkelrevute.bandcamp.com/album/journey-beyond

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Dylan Henner – Her Parents Were Out So We Shared a Joint and Floated Around In Her Pool Under the Starlight

“Late one evening, I was listening to the radio alone at home. I couldn’t find the station I wanted, so I shifted the dial around for a while. Between frequencies, fading in and out of fidelity, I found a station I’d never heard before. To my amazement, the station was broadcasting my own memories. Memories from when I was seventeen. Some of the most formative and important moments of my life, alive on the air.”

https://dylanhenner.bandcamp.com/album/star-dream-fm

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Romance – As I Lay On My Bed

Originally released as a mixtape 5 years ago, there’s now a florescent pink vinyl edition to celebrate the first Romance release on Ecstatic, You Must Remember This. Fusing ambient texture with the emotive sweep of Hollywood’s golden-age symphonic soundtracks, this new version includes separated tracks, a full remaster of the original release, and two previously unheard bonus cuts from the archive.

https://youmustrememberthis.bandcamp.com/album/you-must-remember-this-expanded-edition

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36 – A Warm Static Sphere (Part 1)

A Warm Static Sphere sees TPW favourite 36 in ultra-deep mode – vast and immersive synths mesh with opaque waves of noise which give way to more delicate moments and open up to reveal fragments and minutiae buried in the depths. The press notes describe the album as “truly horizontal music”, and while I’m not entirely sure what that means, it definitely makes me want to lie down. In a good way.

https://quietdetails.bandcamp.com/album/a-warm-static-sphere