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Windy & Carl, Optigan Conservatory – Timelines

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Windy and Carl join fellow Michigan duo Optigan Conservatory for an album of blurry guitars, electric piano and synths, recorded with very little planning and, seemingly, a few sounds nobody remembers actually making. ‘Timelines’ is a lovely little stretch of deep-space drift, with soft chords slowly folding into one another and the whole thing hovering somewhere between ambient music and a half-remembered sci-fi soundtrack. Hazy, slightly spooky, very nice indeed.

https://windyandcarl.bandcamp.com/album/windy-carl-meet-optigan-conservatory

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J.WLSN, Liam Keenan – Teflon Blues III

In late 2024, J.WLSN and Liam Keenan recorded a short session with David Akerman at Lost Sound studio in Marrickville, Sydney. At the time, the pair were working as art and music curators at a major Sydney art museum. Both had long made music independently, but a collaborative record between them was overdue.

Country / The County is the first result of that collaboration, drawing on a shared love of longform, expansive and distorted sound. Built from subtle guitars, modular synth pads and sample-based loops, its reverberant compositions explore the landscapes and environments that shaped both artists growing up. Perhaps it’s lazy to compare this to Stars Of The Lid – not all drifting ambient needs to sound like them – but this has enough depth and emotional heft to justify it.

https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/country-the-country

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Patricia Wolf – Adapted For Extreme Conditions

I’m on on holiday tomorrow and blog posts are not going to be a major part of my itenirary, so I’m leaving you with this bucolic delight from Patricia Wolf. Yarrow is part of Music To Watch Seeds Grow By’s collection, marking the label’s ninth release and the third of Season Two, with each of the tracks acting as reflections on the life cycle of plants and their dynamic ecological relationships.

https://patriciawolf.bandcamp.com/album/music-to-watch-seeds-grow-by-009-patricia-wolf-yarrow

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One Leg One Eye – Many are my Names Besides

This came out back in May, but it’s new to me and may well be to you as well. The collaborative project of Lankum’s Ian Lynch alongside George Brennan, One Leg One Eye output could mildly be described bleak and foreboding, with the inimitable Boomkat describing their new LP CRONE as “imagining Celtic folklore as molasses slow, rust-caked transcendent doom”.

https://onelegoneeye.bandcamp.com/album/crone

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fields we found – landscape 05

landscape 05 is the latest entry from Alex Gold’s fields we found moniker, released via his own quiet details label. Created through a deeply meditative and intuitive process, the piece is built from modular drones and repeating patterns recorded to multiple tape machines before being captured in a single live take, with analogue oscillators, magnetic tape and freely tuned textures drift gradually through the recording, As with every release in the landscape series, landscape 05 is available as a name-your-price download over at the quiet details’ Bandcamp page.

https://fieldswefound.bandcamp.com/album/landscape-05

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Ginte Preisaite – Loop The Pause

Lithuanian artist and graduate of Copenhagen’s Rhythmic Music Conservatory Gintė Preisaitė recently released her first solo LP under her own name, following a collaborative effort with Toshimaru Nakamura in 2025 and a number of cassettes as “Baraboro”. Instruments of Forgetting and the Singing Bone explores fantasy, absurdity and relationships as a cast of players contribute string, brass, accordion, and guitar parts to her sparse, decayed, genre-hopping sound.

https://gintepreisaite.bandcamp.com/album/instruments-of-forgetting-and-the-singing-bone

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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 and drone, with A2 a glitchy highlight.

https://paperclipminimiser.bandcamp.com/album/ii

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Caterina Barbieri & Bendik Giske – Impatience, Magma

Caterina Barbieri and Bendik Giske’s collaborative project started during an artistic residency in Milan’s ICA in 2021, by invitation of Swiss artist and curator Jan Vorisek. This meeting, and the preceding closure of sites for cultural exchange, made their work together “feel like springtime” according to Barbieri. Throughout the tour, they continued to develop material live, and their album, At Source, feels true to that ever-evolving process of creation. Impatience, Magma feels like the centrepiece of this extraordinary EP, glowing and languorous, with Giske’s saxophone at its most affecting.

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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