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Simone Seales – full circle

I really was intending to post something bouncy and uplifting to start the week, but then I heard Simone Seales new album Dearest and decided reflective, somewhat mournful cello was actually the way to go. Simone Seales’s debut studio album is a poetry-music album inspired by the warmth, nostalgia, and tension of first queer love which they wrote as a way of honouring and releasing their first relationship from a decade ago. So not bouncy, exactly, just very good.

https://simoneseales.bandcamp.com/album/dearest

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Jessica Moss – Washing Machine

Unfolding is Jessica Moss’s most meditative and plaintive solo album, and perhaps the first in the Montréal violinist/composer’s decade-spanning discography that could properly be called ambient.

The album came together over a period of a year, inspired by the genocide in Palestine, and as a direct response to “our collective witnessing, our collective grief, as a portal to collective mourning, as a searchlight through our internal weather systems, seeking one another out in the dark.” Opening the album, Washing Machine traces its origins to a phone recording of a European laundry machine, captured by Moss as she sat next to it, heartbroken on the bathroom floor, finding solace by humming a melody along to the mechanical harmonics of the washer working through its cycles.

https://jessicamoss.bandcamp.com/album/unfolding

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Kelly Moran – Echo In the Field

Announced alongside a new album, Don’t Trust Mirrors due in October, Kelly Moran’s Echo in the Field pairs prepared piano with synths and strings, creating a piece that shifts between delicacy and propulsion. The accompanying video, directed by Katharine Antoun, places Moran herself at the centre. Speaking about the decision, she said: “Few things in this world terrify me more than the idea of me dancing in a music video. I wanted to address that fear head on because this is the first track I’ve written that makes me want to get up to dance, headbang, and generally lose my shit.”

https://kellymoran.bandcamp.com/album/dont-trust-mirrors

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The Vernon Spring – Known

This is taken from Under a Familiar Sun, the new album from The Vernon Spring and the solo project of British composer and producer Sam Beste. Over twelve elegant songs, Beste’s beautiful, expansive compositions centre around a graceful and deliberate approach to piano, accented by vocal collaborations, spoken word, and a gently compelling mix of electronic and acoustic instrumentation.

https://thevernonspring.bandcamp.com/album/under-a-familiar-sun

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Klara Lewis – Thankful

Extraordinary stuff from Klara Lewis on the opening and title track of her new album for Editions Mego, starting life as simple, mournful strings before becoming increasingly deranged, distorted and overwhelming over the course of its 20 minute runtime.

https://klaralewis.bandcamp.com/album/thankful

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Mabe Fratti – Enfrente

I’ve spent a few weeks with Mabe Fratti’s new album Sentir que no sabes now, but it’s just not really doing it for me. Her last couple sounded like nothing else I’ve ever heard, properly visceral and overwhelming in parts, whereas this one just kinda of bobs along. Almost everyone disagrees with me, so maybe I just don’t get it. Enfrente is pretty great though.

https://tinangelrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sentir-que-no-sabes

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Keeley Forsyth – In The Corner

It’s Friday, the sun is shining, so here’s some deeply paranoid bleakness from Keeley Forsyth’s third album The Hollow which came out today. The album’s title comes from her discovery a long-abandoned mining shaft whilst out walking, while musically it incorporates aspects of minimalist post-classical, dark ambient and film and theatre soundtracks, with occasional warped pitch-shifts of her overwhelmingly mournful vocal for additional headfuckery.

https://keeleyforsyth.bandcamp.com/album/the-hollow

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Not Waving & Romance – Infinite Light

This blog is leaning ever more exclusively into ambient, so if you’re not into that – I’m sorry. But it’s hard not to when there’s so much good/weird/dreamy stuff around. Here, Not Waving and Romance take inspiration from Botticelli’s ‘The Birth of Venus’ on their third full-length LP Infinite Light, and the album’s title track is unquestionably its centrepiece; a ten-minute celestial epic to send even the hardest-lined of atheists quivering to their knees.

https://boomkat.com/products/infinite-light-e6c1ba09-0f31-4d2f-9708-2e7a5786ff69

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Ann Annie – Cottonwood

Aaaaand drift….

https://annannie.bandcamp.com/

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Actress – Hit That Spdiff ( b 8 )

LXXXVIII is the ninth Actress album, and is presented as “the very first presentation of [his] voyage into ‘luxury sonics’ – the culmination of 25 years’ honing mind-shorting, soul-igniting audio infusions for dance floors, rave dens, festivals, and concert halls”. I’m not even going to attempt to top that, other than to say that this is as meditative and immersive as Darren Cunningham’s music has ever been.

https://actress.bandcamp.com/album/lxxxviii