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Burial – Comafields

A new Burial record is an increasingly rare thing: his new EP Comafields / Imaginary Festival is his first original material for over a year, following a split release with Kode 9. Comafields opens with a sample of Russell Crowe as Noah from Darren Aronofsky intensely odd 2014 movie (sure) and then meanders through all the Burial tropes: vinyl crackle, celestial rave, abrupt tonal and rhythmic shifts, ethereal, whispered vocals, before seemingly sampling himself with the final shuffling percussive flourish. And… it’s great!

https://burial.bandcamp.com/album/comafields-imaginary-festival

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Demdike Stare, Cherrystones – Thee Oath

Post author By The Predatory Wasp
Post date July 17, 2025
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Described by the ever understated Boomkat as “up there with some of the most satisfyingly deep and frazzled gear this century”, I’m not sure whether I enjoyed or endured Demdike Stare’s new LP Who Owns The Dark?, but it certainly left an impression. A long-in-the-making collab with Cherrystones, it’s even sketchier and more unnerving than To Cut & Shoot from earlier this year, which is really saying something.

https://boomkat.com/products/who-owns-the-dark

Tags cherrystones, demdike stare, electronic, experimental, industrial, new music

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Purelink – Rookie feat. Loraine James

Post author By The Predatory Wasp
Post date July 8, 2025
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Purelink embrace liquidity on their second album Faith, washing live instrumentation and exposed vocals over their patented cascade of dubbed ambience and ebbing rhythmic experimentation. With a vocal appearance from Loraine James, Rookie stands out even amongst all the other floaty excellence, her voice floating like smoke over pattering rhythms and airy synths

https://purelink.bandcamp.com/album/faith

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Orieta Chrem – KON

Fantologia I is a 17-track compilation curated by Quixosis and DJ +1, bringing together experimental electronic artists from across Latin America. The release explores themes of uncertainty and instability in the region, focusing on the idea of hauntology and the disappearance of promised futures. The music ranges from ambient and textured soundscapes to more rhythmic, club-influenced tracks, tied together by a shared sense of tension. Arriving at around the midpoint of the VA, Peruvian artist Orieta Chrem’s track KON blends Aphex Twin-esque disquieting synth lines with haunting vocals and clipped drums.

https://tambien.bandcamp.com/album/fantologia-i

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Maiya Blaney – And

Maiya Blaney describes her second album A Room With A Door That Closes as “a love letter to her blue,” an emotional state that she defines as “a kinetic, intense, and dark energy that needs to be expressed as soon as it is felt.” The eleven songs on the album span radioactive kiss offs, sorrowful meditations on yearning, and gossamer reveries about self image, with the stand-out And moving through pitch-shifted drone, majestic strings and soft guitar over the course of its 6+ minutes.

https://maiyablaney.bandcamp.com/album/a-room-with-a-door-that-closes

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Lucy Gooch – Night Window Part One

Post author By The Predatory Wasp
Post date June 9, 2025
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On her debut album Desert Window, Lucy Gooch stays true to her electronic foundations, while incorporating more acoustic instrumentation and digging deeper into her folk roots through songwriting. At the heart of Lucy’s music is her rapturous, at times operatic vocal, with which she bring to the fore more than with previous releases. The result is described as “an atmospheric balance between Kate Bush and Cocteau Twins harmonies” which is risky ground with which to invite comparison; the fact that I’m not mad about it shows just how good this album is.

https://lucygooch.bandcamp.com/album/desert-window

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Margaux Gazur – Agata

I was slightly obsessed with Smallville about 15 years ago, so it’s comforting to know that not much has changed in terms of the music they’re putting out in the intervening years. Margaux Gazur’s new LP Blurred Memories is dusty, low-key, slightly eeire, hypnotic house and I can’t get enough of its opening track.

https://smallville-records.bandcamp.com/album/smallville-lp-18-margaux-gazur-blurred-memories

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Not Marshall – UNKNOWN PRODIGY

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Post date May 29, 2025
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Pretty sure I write a variation on this every time I post a Not Marshall track, but it is staggering they don’t get more attention. At time of write they have one (!) follower on Soundcloud and get 56 monthly listeners on Spotify. And I don’t think they even have a Bandcamp account. A ludicrous state of affairs. Their latest LP ELLIX is another masterclass in icy ambient and drone, even swerving into more trancey textures a la 36 and Lee Gamble. Should be massive, never will be 😦

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Smerz – But i do

Slickly detached bedroom pop and electronic excursions from Norwegian outfit Smerz, taken from their new album Big city life. But i do has an almost Massive Attack-esque swagger about it, but with a touch of humour in both the vocals and synth work replacing 3D and Daddy G’s dour delivery.