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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.

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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

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Lost Girls – Menneskekollektivet

Lost Girls is a collaboration between Jenny Hval and Håvard Volden. Despite having worked together for close to a decade, they announced their debut album Menneskekollektivet (which roughly translates to “human collective’) only last week, along with this 12 minute epic which starts life as a contemplative, spoken-word piece before progressing through lumbering rhythms and increasingly weird, chattering synth lines. I’ve loved pretty much everything Hval has released previously, especially 2019’s incredible The Practise of Love, and everything about Menneskekollektivet suggests that trend will continue.

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

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Lasse Tapio Junnila – Recall

Finnish artist Lasse Tapio Junnila released his debut album Childhood Amnesia last week, and Recall comes from that collection. The album tenderly and poignantly explores memory and nostalgia: specifically those half-forgotten early experiences of childhood that can lie dormant for years before coming back in a rush, triggering strong – if not entirely fully understood – emotions. Recall is gleaming, surging ambient electronica, and is just lovely.

https://lassetapiojunnila.bandcamp.com

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Browni – Ready To Surrender

Browni is producer Kovey Coles and singer/songwriter Hawa Sako, and Ready To Surrender is about as slick and sultry as R&B gets: the kind of record you listen to half a dozen times on repeat on your way back from a Big Night Out, half drifting off as you gaze out of the cab window at the yellow-white street lights and slowly brightening sky. Remember nights out? No, me neither actually.

https://www.instagram.com/brownimusic

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Patrica Taxxon – Crocus 3

Patricia Taxxon released two entire albums this weekend, but I watched four entire games of rugby and cooked a roast, so, you know, who’s to really say what’s of more benefit to the world? This is my pick from the first of those albums, Crocus, which in some ways throws back to her 2019 masterpiece Beauty, minus the samples and frenetic drums: a gorgeous, synthy instrumental that once agains manages to remind me of Lemmings.

https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com