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Lisa & Kroffe – Efterdyningar

Lisa & Kroffe released their first album Gärdet Session back in 2013, and have been keeping themselves busy under various different names and projects in the electronica, techno and kraut genres since then. Efterdyningar is taken from their new LP Roslagens Famn which came out last month, which is really brilliant instrumental music in the borderland between folk, psychedelic, ambient and styles of electronic music I can’t even identify. Efterdyningar itself is a super-chilled moment halfway through that delves into a lot of my favourite themes: nostalgia, sadness, melancholy; you know, the good stuff.

https://lamourrecords.bandcamp.com/album/roslagens-famn

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Croatian Amor, Varg2™, Jeuru, CTM – For Us

There are so many artists involved in this I’m not even going to try and dissect it. What makes it even more confusing is that I missed that the Varg I know and love recently became Varg2™ after the German metal band Varg issued a cease and desist (leading to the release of Fuck Varg last year). Say ‘Varg’ again… I dare you!!

But forget all that; forget that if you’re living in the UK life begins to return to something at least vaguely resembling ‘normal’ and ‘fun’ again next week. For now, just listen to this utterly amazingly beautifully heartbreaking record and think about the impermanence and fragility of everything around you until you start to cry.

https://croatianamor-alter.bandcamp.com

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Julianna Barwick – Open

Julianna Barwick's new album, Nepenthe, comes out August 20.

Last month Moog Music launched the Moog Sound Studio, a new semi-modular synthesizer “aimed at both beginners and seasoned professionals”, which supposedly provides everything you need to get started on your path to musical greatness. Except talent of course: you need to provide your own. To celebrate the launch Moog teamed up with a load of amazing artists to demonstrate the capabilities of the MSS, including Ela Minus, Bonobo, Peter Cottontale and Julianna Barwick, none of whom are short of talent and all do excellent jobs in making this look easy. Barwick’s Open is a sinister delight, with her unmistakable vocal accompanied by muted percussion and church organ-like tendrils of Moog-y goodness.

https://juliannabarwick.bandcamp.com

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Christina Chatfield – Nameless Islet

Named after San Fransisco’s Sutro Tower, Christina Chatfield’s new album Sutro shares more than just a name with that iconic structure. Skeletal in form, both suggests the celestial: towering presences that have a far weightier impact than you’d expect from their sparse construction. Distinct from her usual dancefloor-focussed aesthetic, Chatfield lets the tracks drift, almost aimlessly: amorphous forms that at times are little more than fragments of vocals and gently pulsing pads. If you have an hour to spare, this is a wonderful album to lose yourself in. If you don’t, you should probably reconsider your priorities.

https://christinachatfield.bandcamp.com

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Gia Margaret – Solid Heart (Guy Sigsworth Remix)

An admission: this time last week I don’t think I’d ever heard – or at least paid enough attention to – the name Guy Sigsworth. For more astute music fans out there however – Gia Margaret included – he’s one of the more celebrated producers of the last 20 years, working with artists including Björk, Goldie, Madonna, Kate Havnevik, Alison Moyet, AURORA and so (so) many more. With a call sheet like that it’s perhaps unsurprising that his remix of Solid Heart sounds absolutely sublime, transforming the lo-fi, duskiness of the original into a slick, downtempo electronic cut complete with a little flurry of cascading synths as delicate and bewitching as you could possibly hope for.

https://giamargaret.bandcamp.com

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Andy Stott – The Beginning

It’s Stott o’Clock! Andy Stott has just announced a new album, Never The Right Time, the Manchester producer’s first since 2016’s Too Many Voices. The Beginning is the lead single, and sounds like a bit of a departure from his trademark bleakness and oppressive atmospheres. He almost sounds optimistic; happy even. Featuring vocals from Stott’s frequent collaborator Alison Skidmore, it’s all open chords and shimmering synth lines, and ends with a minute or so of genuine serenity. Time will tell if this is the vibe we can expect from the rest of the album, but just the fact that there’s new music out there and more on the way is the best news I’ve had for ages.

https://modern-love.co.uk

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Terror Peaks – Sᐝo⼁❘ ︲⏐ ˌ ˈ ̩ Showyou

Squarepusher-channeling IDM (if we’re on board with that term) from Terror Peaks for you today, which seems to be doing everything it can to wrongfoot you at every turn. Each time it settles on a particular groove or pattern for a few bars it almost immediately switches it up for something even more intense and intricate, which would all make for a pretty headscrambling few minutes if it weren’t for the occasional, gorgeous pads and snatches of vocals that drift into the mix, reassuring you that everything will be all right in the end, honestly.

https://slowdancerecords.bandcamp.com/album/terror-peaks

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yehno – Our Best Selves

Our Best Selves is the lead single from a forthcoming six-track EP from Canadian experimental producer yehno, and will be the first release on a new label, Collection Disques Durs. Visceral and hard-hitting, there’s also an incredible amount of nuance and subtlety here. One the one hand, yes, I feel on the verge of a panic attack while listening to it, but on the other, it’s actually warm and reassuring, like watching all your worldly possessions burn while realising you’re probably better off without them. I imagine.

https://yehno.bandcamp.com

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DJ Danny – On A Mountain

I can already feel the backlash building against the new album from former PC Music-affiliate Danny L Harle aka DJ Danny, but frankly if you don’t find even the tiniest bit of joy in this album you’re dead inside and there is no hope for you. On A Mountain perfectly blends rave sounds from the peak of its 90s ridiculousness with crisp, thumping PC-ish production, injecting us with a mighty pure shot of rave nostalgia. Gas masks at the ready.

https://dannylharlepcmusic.bandcamp.com

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ttypes – For Robert Downey Jr. Pt 1

ttypes is the solo project of Michigan-based songwriter Tim Krauss whose music ranges from ambient instrumental, to piano pop, rock, electronic pop and various other styles. His latest – as the title suggests – is an ode to Hollywood icon, (former) cocaine enthusiast and everyone’s favourite irreverent cyborg, Robert Downey Jr.. Not that you’d necessarily be able to tell from the record itself which is a frantic rush of syrupy bleeps and washed out vocals, but check out the video for one of the purest hits of RDJ you’re likely to find outside of a Marvel set.

https://ttttypes.bandcamp.com