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Lost Girls – Timed Intervals

Jenny Hval and Håvard Volden’s Lost Girls’ collaboration dates back more than a decade, with Volden playing regularly in Hval’s live band and two previous albums. In 2022, the duo were booked to perform a concert at Les Subsistances in Lyon, and decided to use the opportunity to create all new material, with Volden creating beats and guitar chord progressions and Hval restructuring the parts, creating melodies and adding lyrics. The resulting album, Selvutsletter, explores different territory than their previous work; shorter, more concise and melodic songs that border on alternative pop (kinda), with opener Timed Intervals one of the clear standouts.

https://lostgirls1000.bandcamp.com/album/selvutsletter

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L’Rain – 5 to 8 Hours a Day (WWwaG)

Under the mononym L’Rain, Brooklyn native Taja Cheek has become a celebrated figure in New York experimental music, and her new album I Killed Your Dog looks set to further cement her reputation. Existing in a similarly genre-less, albeit considerably more wavy space as someone like Yves Tumor, I Killed Your Dog considers what it means to hurt the people you love the most, and has been described by Cheek as an “anti-break-up” record. Does this mean it’s a record that soundtracks people getting together? Or one that’s suited to couples who really should split up, but battle through regardless. Probably the latter, maybe something else entirely. But it’s very good and you should listen to it.

https://lrain.bandcamp.com/album/i-killed-your-dog

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Nina Kinert – Marble Armour (In The Eye of My Maker)

I love Nina Kinert. Her 2018 album Romantic and In Twos EP from the same year are releases I return to frequently, but she’s been relatively quiet since then, averaging about a single a year in the intervening years. So I was very excited to get stuck into her new album Religious, which explores some of her stories about growing up within the Pentecostal Church Community in Sweden , while at the same time dealing with her “attraction to spiritual mystique and the supernatural.” As with most of her work, Marble Armour is hauntingly beautiful, and a great entry point into her often electronically inflected, folk-led musical world if she’s escaped your attention until now.

https://ninakinert.bandcamp.com/album/religious

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Pangaea – If

I haven’t posted an “absolute banger” on here for quite some time, but this from Hessle Audio co-founder Pangaea is really excellent. Chopped vocals and chunky beats! But it’s the pads that come in halfway through that make it, transforming decent club fare into a poignant anthem. Taken from his new LP Changing Channels which is out now.

https://pangaeauk.bandcamp.com/album/changing-channels

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Shine Grooves – Music For Sakura Blossom

“Triangulating liquid acid, deprivation chamber house, and the outer reaches of dub techno” Yes, please!

https://shinegrooves.bandcamp.com/album/watching-the-breeze

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The Orb & David Gilmour – Metallic Spheres In Colour: Movement 2

The 2010 collaboration between The Orb and Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour has been “reimagined and remixed” as Metallic Spheres In Colour, and although my pretentiousness radar is on high alert with this one, I’m also intrigued. As Pitchfork sagely noted in their original review, “it’s an album designed to be listened to”, and I’m not entirely sure I can add much to that statement, other than to say this particular ‘movement’ sounds like a direct mash up of Sueno Latino and Leftfield’s Original. Is it good? I’m not sure! But listen below while enigmatically gazing off into the middle distance and decide for yourself.

https://burningshed.com/the-orb-featuring-david-gilmour_metallic-spheres-in-colour_cd

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Lord of the Isles, Ella Renton – Last Day

Released today My Noise is Nothing is a collaborative album between Lord of The Isles and Scottish poet Ellen Renton, pairing the former’s sparse, atmospheric production with the latter’s pandemic-penned words; verses that deal with her coming to terms with an influx of raw, unfiltered emotions.

https://lordoftheisles.bandcamp.com

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FKA Twigs – Papi Pacify

Yesterday marked the 10 year anniversary (!!!) of the release of FKA Twigs’ staggeringly brilliant EP2. Produced by Arca, it went on to ‘inspire’ an entire wave of artists attempting to replicate its stripped-back yet immensely rich and impactful sound. Very few matched its creativity and sheer take-your-breath-away originality, and none surpassed it, arguably even Twigs herself (although many would disagree with me on that last point). A decade later it still represent a high point, both musically and culturally, and perhaps most importantly, open my own eyes and ears to a world to which I was previously completely ignorant.

https://www.instagram.com/fkatwigs

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Quelza – Green Roads

Green Roads is taken from a charity compilation REBUILD, which was released to help raise funds to support victims of the earthquakes in Syria and Turkey earlier this year. I came across this specific track from French producer Quelza in Clarissa Kimskii’s recent RA podcast, and it’s really excellent: a trippy, dubby, hypnotic low-key banger.

https://909originals.com/2023/04/25/rx-recordings-releases-fundraising-compilation-to-help-those-affected-by-turkiye-and-syria-earthquakes/

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Anjimile – Anybody

Anjimile’s 2020 debut album Giver Taker came out of nowhere and was one of the year’s best, blending low-key folk with introspective, beautifully delivered lyrics. Three years on his latest LP The King just arrived, and although the introspection is still there, production-wise it’s a much bigger, brasher, more confident proposition. Time will tell if this lives up to the promise of its predecessor, but on the first couple of listens Anybody is a clear highlight.

https://anjimile.bandcamp.com/album/the-king