More electronic alt-pop whimsy from Discovery Zone’s forthcoming album Quantum Web, with the hypnotically lo-fi music video directed by Jennifer Juniper Stratford.
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Discovery Zone – Pair A Dice
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Helado Negro – Wish You Could Be Here
I’m not entirely sure how many Helado Negro albums there have been – maybe 10? – but I do know they just keep getting better. His latest PHASOR is “an homage to going outside again” and a “returning to life record” concerned with beautifully evocative, hopeful imagery like remembering what the sun feels like and letting it warm your skin. I saw some early spring flowers out the other day, and putting aside what this ultimately means regarding the rapid warming of the planet and ultimate death of everyone on it… it was nice; just like this album!
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36 – Imagine The Truth
My dude 36 is back with yet another album, hopefully the first of many this year. Reality Engine is the third and final LP in 36’s synth trilogy, concluding the melodic, melancholy machine sound started with Wave Variations and continuing with Symmetry Systems. See how it glimmers! Feel better!
In August 2022, Ariel Kalma, a renowned fourth-world (nope, me neither – but apparently it’s a thing) music artist, joined BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction for a special collaborative project, pairing with artists Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer. This partnership, led to the creation of twenty minutes of music through a back-and-forth exchange of ideas and contributions. After fulfilling their initial commitment, the trio felt compelled to continue their collaboration, expanding upon their initial creations, which ultimately culminated in an album The Closest Thing to Silence. The album’s title, inspired by a Kalma quote and echoing an ECM Records motto, emphasizes music’s profound connection to silence – so expect plenty of ambient, experimental meanderings, and quite a lot of space.
https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/the-closest-thing-to-silence
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Discovery Zone – Mall Of Love
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Naliah Hunter – Bleed
There have already been some banging albums out this year, Naliah Hunter’s Lovegaze not least among them. Depending on which publications you trust this has been labelled as ambient, experimental, folk or a combination of all these and more. If you trust this blog, I’d just say go and listen to it and make your own mind up (but it’s definitely not ambient).
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Donato Dozzy – Le Chaser
After various collaborative projects over the past few years, Donato Dozzy finally gives us what we all want: a solo ambient techno album, tailor-made to make us weepy. “An emotional homage to family and the Adriatic Sea” (!), Magda is absolute fucking perfection and if it’s not in my top 10 albums this year, it will have been a frankly ridiculous year for music. At times evoking, possibly even surpassing his seminal Voices From The Lake project, if you don’t like Le Chaser at least, we can’t be friends.
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Erika de Casier – Lucky
Eriks de Casier announces her forthcoming album Still with new single Lucky, which treads a familiar but nevertheless enjoyable path: warm chords, stripped-back, evocative breaks and plaintive, romantic vocals. The most interesting part of the announcement though is the list of collaborators Casier produces on the album, namely They Hate Change, Shygirl and Blood Orange. Still is out 21 February, so I don’t even need to spend too much time imagining what that will sound like.
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Salamanda – Sing Together
It’s been a solid couple of years for Seoul based electronic duo Salamander, as they’ve slowly but surely become more widely known in the West via glowing features in tastemaker outlets like FACT and Crack Magazine. Sing Together landed on Christmas Eve and continues in a similar vibe to their latest album In Parallel; skeletal but warm electronic meanderings with naive melodies and plenty of whimsy.
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nthng – Unlimited ()
As is traditional, the first few weeks (possibly months) of 2024 will see me catching up on all the brilliant music I missed from last year. I expect everyone’s feeling exceptionally bleak after big nights out/in a couple of days ago, so here’s something soft and restorative from Amsterdam’s nthng, taken from their latest album There Is A Place For Me. For fans of DJ Healer, breakbeats and being reflective (or just a bit sad).
